In a recent MTV interview with Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) has revelaed he’s planning to shoot an $80 million action epic this fall and then, three weeks later, shoot a feature length version of Thanksgiving for $5 million. He described the project a little bit:
It’s going to be something that is really fun with lots of mass destruction. I wanted to do something along the lines of Transformers or Cloverfield that was a little more science fiction-based, and with lots of chaos and mass destruction.
When asked what the antagonist might be, he said:
I don’t want to say what yet. Once it gets set up, I will let everyone know. It is not aliens or robots or a virus – it’s a little more grounded. But when people hear it they are going to be like ‘That is going to be insane!’.
When talking about Thanksgiving he said he wants to make “the sickest, bloodiest, most violent slasher movie. I want to make the highest body count slasher film I can.”
Count me excited. I don’t think Roth is that great of a filmmaker, but it sounds like he has quite a vision for this film. I loved Cloverfield, so anything along that vein will pique my interest.
What do you think of Roth’s next projects?