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“Hostel 3”? “Grindhouse 2”? “Trailer Trash”?
Moviehole spoke to cinema’s resident gore giver, Eli Roth, about his future plans. Though nothing is sidewalk concrete, the “Hostel” helmer says he’d love to do a film that’s choca-bloc with fake trailers and a sequel (can’t see that happening; can you Harvey?) to “Grindhouse”. One franchise the blood buff probably won’t be returning to is “Hostel”, saying he’s had enough of decapitating Americans for the moment.
There’s no “Hostel 3”, says Roth. “I’m done with it. I’m very proud of it and I feel like I’ve told all the story. Then again, I didn’t plan on doing Hostel II either, so I don’t want to say never but right now there’s Hostel I and Hostel II and that’s it. And maybe if I’m inspired by some idea for Hostel III I’ll do it at some point down the road but I really want to do Trailer Trash and I want to do Cell and I’ve other ideas that I want to do. “
“Trailer Trash”, as mentioned last week, is “a whole movie of fake trailers”. The filmmaker says he has “so many ideas for either like steak movies or just terrible films that I’ll never make but that I think would be amazing trailers. And filming it was so fun because you get the satisfaction as if you made a feature. Because everybody just comes out remembering the best parts anyway. So you feel like you made a whole movie. And it’s all money shots. It’s like cheating. Like I got to just film the best stuff.
“I’m writing it with my brother, Gabe”, Roth says. “And I have some other ideas that – like just movies and ideas and things. Like, I wrote Thanksgiving with my friend, Jeff Rendell and we’ve got some other ideas for slasher movies that we want to throw in there. And my friend Noah Belson who I wrote my animation, Rotten Fruit with and Chowdaheads. We just have all these like kind of pet movies that we wish we could make one day that we probably never will. And now they can all become like great trailers in Trailer Trash.”
Roth says the film will likely include 20-25 trailers and probably cost around $15 million bucks. He’s in negotiations with a studio as we speak.
“It’s gotta feel like different movies. I’m certain that some people will be in some more than others but I want it to feel like everyone’s in this one.”
And though “Grindhouse” took it in the ass at the box office, Roth said he’d be keen to do the sequel to it – if the Weinsteins grew steel ones.
“Well I talked to Edgar [Wright] And Edgar said, he’s like ‘If you do Thanksgiving I’ll do Don’t’ and I was like ‘Alright’. So if they make a Grindhouse II with I want to do it like the real Grindhouse films of the 70s, maybe like a million bucks. Like we’d put really strict limits, 45 minutes, one take. Like set up all these rules for ourselves so that if we’re going to do it just like do it down and dirty and cheap like a real drive in movie. “
Look for our exclusive interview with Eli Roth in the coming days.
