Eli Roth told Fangoria that he is talking to Universal about remaking the 1981 horror movie The Funhouse with his production company Arcade.
“I’m talking with Universal about that one,†Roth reveals. “THE FUNHOUSE is a movie where the first half is brilliant—they set up these great characters—and then they pay off none of them. You have Marco the Magician sawing his daughter in half, the brothers who run the carnival and the funhouse setting. And then it’s all about this weird mutant thing. It should be about the kids getting killed in horrible ways, put in different contraptions in the funhouse and the final girl being strapped into the ride and sent into the tunnels to be confronted by terrifying tableaux of her dead friends. A smart remake could be so much fun. Kill the kids in fabulous ways and continually reuse the bodies by making them freaks in the freak museum, sew their eyes shut, waxworks… That’s the stuff I want to do in a remake of THE FUNHOUSE.â€
The Funhouse is currently playing on HBO Zone and after watching it today, I am dying to see what Eli will do with this movie. Although I don’t think I should say dying and Eli so close together like that… But seriously what he is saying could really make the movie what it should’ve been and with his genius I know he can do it!!!
Besides going behind the camera again for his upcoming features Endangered Species, Thanksgiving and poss The Funhouse, he is also going in front of the camera again for Piranha 3-D to play a host of wet T-Shirt contest for 16 women and their wet 32 girls according to Bloody Disgusting! I read somewhere that he said this was brutal role for him and in fact he thought before doing the cameo “How will I ever top working with Quentin and Brad Pitt (in Inglourious Basterds)? Well…” Now he knows!!!
Don’t forget before those 4 movies even see the big screen, you can see him in Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic Inglourious Basterds in front of the camera as Sgt. Donny Donowitz aka The Bear Jew and behind it directing the propaganda film within the film, Pride’s Nation on August 21st.
Eli Roth let People in on a little secret about how his Inglourious Basterds co-star Brad Pitt keeps his pits smelling so glourious!
"He shared that when you're sweating and don't have time to take a shower, you just take a baby wipe and rub it under your armpits," Pitt's costar and pal Eli Roth told PEOPLE at Saturday's Spike TV Guys Choice 2009 in Los Angeles, set to air on the cable network June 21 at 10 p.m.
"After a scene, Brad had to get next to me for a close-up shot, and he said, 'Damn, you're ripe,' " recalls Roth, 37. "I said, 'I didn’t have time to shower.' He said, 'Baby wipes, man, baby wipes.' "
When it came to Pitt's pits, Roth said the leading man explained, "I got six kids. All you've got to do is just take them, a couple quick wipes under the pits." Pitt further said, "Man, I'm getting pissed on all day. I don't have time to take a shower."
"I thought that was the greatest tip," says Roth, who took the advice to heart. "My character is called the Bear Jew. If I ever started to smell like a bear, I would just use a couple baby wipes under the armpits, and it made it safe for everyone else to act around me."
I can't believe that Brad Pitt told Eli that he was ripe. I could never tell someone that, could you? But hey he is Brad Pitt, he can do whatever he wants! Including letting people know his secret to armpit freshness. Now I want to know if Eli walks around with baby wipes all the time, unlike Brad he doesn't have any kids which could def be a fun conversation item if you see him with a pocket full of baby wipes.
BTW besides letting people know about Brad's baby fresh scent, he also told People what it was like acting with him and hanging with Angelina Jolie at a Cannes after party. Did you guys see that In Touch magazine this week they called him "The Other Man" that she was talking to at that party? Too funny. Wonder if he used the baby wipes before he sat down on that couch with her?
UPDATE: That picture of Brad Pitt and Eli Roth was the exact moment that he was talking about in the interview. I just spoke with Eli Roth and he said, that they only got through that closeup because of the baby wipes. He said that he felt bad about smelling like The Bear Jew that he plays, but he had spent all day beating a Nazi to death with a baseball bat and didn't have time to shower. He explained that he doesn't always have time to shower whenever he gets sweaty while filming, but he always time to use a baby wipe and make things as painless as possible for his co-stars.
I am thankful for baby wipes because that picture is beyond awesome, and it is shame to think it almost didn't happen.
x17 Online Eli Roth was in Cannes to promote his upcoming movie Inglourious Basterds and by luck he got the Bernardo Bertolucci suite at the Carlton hotel and right outside his window was his extremely tall “Eli Roth is a Basterd” poster! And I hear that every morning Eli would sit out on balcony, drink his coffee and wave to his adoring fans! Other times he would come out in his bathrobe and drink champagne as I posted the picture last week! And others say that sometimes he would even sing from Evita. All in all he was having a well deserved blast! You go boy!!!
Seriously how adorable does he look soaking up the once in a lifetime moment!!!
In a pivotal scene in Inglourious Basterds, Eli Roth and Omar Doom nearly died according to what Eli told MTV Movie Blog.
Eli Roth and Omar Doom were engulfed in flames, but they couldn’t go anywhere. Quentin Tarantino hovered high above them behind the camera, on a crane, outfitted in a flame-retardant suit. The actors had been told they’d be OK, that two tests had already been safely run. They were slathered in protective gel and crew members were poised to extinguish  or attempt to extinguish  the fire if it leapt onto their bodies. Yet the temperature reached 1,000 degrees Celsius and their faces and hands began to burn. The blaze had suddenly raged out of control and there was nothing to do but solider on. There could be only one take of the scene and there was no turning back on the German set of “Inglourious Basterds.”
“If we’d been there another 10 seconds, they said the ceiling would have collapsed on us,” Roth told MTV News from the relative safety of the Cannes International Film Festival, where the cast had assembled to promote the film.
Thankfully the two got out safely and the scene is just another powerful one in Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic that comes out on August 21st.
Here is a second of the scene (:36 in) and by watching it, you can see how amazing it looks and so much better that it was done for real and not CGed which takes away from the effect of it all.
This week Inglourious Basterds premiered to a long standing ovation and critical acclaim; and today we are finally seeing the first full trailer from the WWII movie!
Now that I have seen the trailer and we get more an insight what we can see from Quentin Tarantino’s epic, I am even more excited to see it when it comes out on August 21st!! Seriously how amazing does that movie look and what about the acting done by Brad Pitt, Eli Roth and Daniel Bruhl!
