The ultra-busy Eli Roth took some time out to speak with Creature Corner today about the upcoming DVD release of his already cult hit "Cabin Fever" and the question of inevitable sequels came up to which he was quite forthcoming:
"Right now it's just a rights situation, we just have to sort that out and make a deal with Lions Gate. They're very excited and they want to do it, and we'd like to do it. We have not reached a deal as of yet, we're working on that now. I had to turn in a treatment for a sequel, but at the end of the day there's a Cabin Fever 2 that Eli Roth wants to make and there's a Cabin Fever 2 that Lions Gate wants to make, and we have to make sure that it's the same movie".
Roth is busy with his Raw Nerve production company which is hard at work on several films, the first of which is Tim Sullivan's awaited "2001 Maniacs" - "We just started cutting 2001 Maniacs this week, I'm really excited. I know many distributors are circling, certainly New Line Cinema, who is the strongest. They're dying to check it out. I think everybody's first taste of the movie will be at the American Film Market in February"
The company is also developing other films right now: "We got a lot of movies in the pipeline. There's a terrific script called Sick In The Head written by Frank Henenlotter [Brain Damage, Basket Case]. It's so damn good. In order for a production company to last is to have a lot of movies in the pipeline. Boaz Yakin wrote a great script called Abraham's Daughter, and we're out to directors on that. And we just had a great meeting with Darren Scott who did Tales From The Hood. Rich Kelly [Donnie Darko] has a project he brought to us too".
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Thanks to 'Rotten to the Core'
