Eli Roth Reveals Plans for Back-to-Back Films

While filmmaker Eli Roth will be showing off his acting chops soon in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, the director would like to get back to work behind the camera as well. MTV Movies Blog recently caught up with Roth who talked about plans for a sci-fi action film.

"I don't want to give away the title yet, because I have to make sure I own it 100%, but it's going to be something that is really fun with lots of mass destruction," he said. "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."

"I don't want to say what [the monster is] yet," Roth added. "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!'."


Roth also revealed plans to make a full-length film based off Thanksgiving, the trailer he directed that appeared between films during Grindhouse.

"The plan is this: I want to do a huge budget movie, but tack on three weeks to the end of it and shoot Thanksgiving," he revealed. "I want to do an $80 million dollar movie, and then schedule three weeks at the end to quickly shoot a $5 million dollar movie."


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Sources: MTV Movies Blog

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Comments (17)

  1. CMR-BOI

    eli is the motha f'n man!!!!! thanksgiving!! sh*t i just jizzed in my pants!!! been a fan of his sense he been in the game

    3 years agoby @cmrboiFlag

  2. T.Clark

    To J.A: Gigan, Megalon, Space Godzilla, King Ghidorah, that thing from Godzilla 2000...

    The only monster I could see getting his own, updated, big screen film out of those is King Ghidorah, but I doubt that's what he's talking about. A Ghidorah movie would be cool, though

    3 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  3. killahmovieisbak

    i bet you its swamp thing lol

    3 years agoby @killahmovieisbakFlag

  4. Love & Napalm

    He should do Gobots! :)

    3 years agoby @zomb13Flag

  5. MC Legendary

    all about this

    3 years agoby @normanse7enFlag

  6. PypeBomb

    Loved Cloverfield...and I loved the Thanksgiving trailer even more. It was f*cking hilarious. This is what movie making is all about..fun..originality...and f*cked up sh*t

    3 years agoby @pypebombFlag

  7. Rock

    love Roths concepts , even if you dont like his films , you have to admit the guy has imagination and some inspired originality

    3 years agoby @elrochoFlag

  8. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    Hmmm any one guess who the monster is yet?
    Its gotta be a remake or something from source material, because he wants to make sure he opwns it 100%

    Maybe one of the monsters that fought Godzilla through the Japanese Godzilla movies, would be pretty awesome.
    Did he fight any monsters that were Sci-fi based, King Ghidorah etc etc.

    So wait is Roth saying he wants to film 2 films during the filming schedule of Thanksgiving.

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  9. -comrade-

    Eli Roth is a twat.

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  10. Timmy

    TGives will be awesome

    3 years agoby @timmyFlag

  11. ed_wood

    He makes good movies so this should be cool. I really hope that Thanksgiving gets made, that will be awesome.

    3 years agoby @ed-woodFlag

  12. T.Clark

    Not a huge a fan, but I always enjoy a good monster movie...here's hoping it's good

    3 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  13. ZanyZap

    Whatever the "monster is", hopefully Eli Roth's becomes its first victim...

    3 years agoby @zanyzapFlag

  14. Newkill3000

    Great, I hope Thanksgiving really gets made.

    3 years agoby @newkill200Flag

  15. The Narrator: The Better Man

    Awesome man. I wonder what the monster is yet, and hope its original.

    3 years agoby @narratorFlag

  16. brew1701

    that actually sounds like a good plan you could use alot of the same actors prolly, I was not a fan of hostel, but his idea intrigues me, I'm lookng forward to more news on this

    3 years agoby @brew1701Flag

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