Eli Roth Going PG-13 for the Kids
Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me
Eli Roth is quoted over at Yahoo saying that his next film is some big budget sci-fi flick he just wrote. "This will be my first big-budget, PG-13, mass-destruction movie," he said backstage at the music industry's NME Awards in Los Angeles. "I went total chaos and pandemonium."
He didn't give any details about the film or say where it was set up at or what studio would be stupid enough to give him a "big budget" for a genre film he has never worked with after he proved he still is yet to master a genre he is supposed to be good at. The article even goes so far as to say he is a Quentin Tarantino protege. Damn, sorry QT, looks like "presenting" his films has stuck you with this gas bag.
Roth's first film was a pile of dog shit called Cabin Fever which was about stupid kids doing stupid things. His follow-up was actually damn good called Hostel. It was unique and while it pushed the gore envelope it managed to stick with the important part of movies… the story. Then he proved his talent level by releasing Hostel II, a film that stunk almost as bad as Cabin Fever. Those two films would have to fight a death match for which one was worse.
His supposed adaptation of Stephen King's Cell has apparently gone bye-bye. The stupidest movie idea ever consisting of nothing but fake movie trailers that was supposed to be out this year has disappeared, and now he has apparently written a sci-fi script. Nice, I'll believe it when I see it.
Roth says, "Everyone I know has been saying 'When are you gonna do a movie my kids can see?' And finally, I'm gonna make a movie that 13-year-old kids can see."
Word is the "big announcement" comes next month. Oh boy, oh boy. Guess what though, he did say he wasn't going to Lionsgate with this new film he is going to shop it with "the big guns." I am sure that makes Lionsgate happy. I know it makes me happy to know that no one has officially stepped up to pay for it. I am all for Roth making a good movie. Hostel was good, but one hit makes The Divinyls. It takes talent to be a real star.
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