Eli Roth talked to MTV Movies Blog about his upcoming behind-the-camera movies that he has coming up and he announced that he is turning his Grindhouse trailer Thanksgiving into a movie! Thanksgiving was one of the only two things I liked (the other was the car ax scenes one for each of their gruesome deaths) in the Grindhouse movie. I am so freaking excited to see what he cooks up for it especially since this is how he described it:
“the sickest, bloodiest, most violent slasher movie,†he said of the “Thanksgiving†flick inspired by the holiday-themed horror classics of the ‘80s. “I want to make the highest body count slasher film I can.â€Â
How bloody awesome does that sound! I love a good slasher film and I know after Cabin Fever, Eli will make it a cut above the rest!
As you can see in the first sentence I said movies and that wasn’t a typo! He added that he is preparing to film his first big budget film this fall.
“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.â€Â
“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!’.â€Â
“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.â€Â
He is currently finishing up the script for that movie that he put on pause so he could do another movie in front of the camera called Inglourious Basterds. And on that note, here are some new scenes from IB that were too firey hot for American Idol yesterday when Quentin Tarantino was a guest mentor! And this is what Eli Roth blogged on his MySpace about them!
This was what was originally cut to air on “American Idol.” And yes, that’s me at the end, and that roaring inferno was real. No CGI bullsh!t. Omar and I almost got incinerated!
That inferno looks absolutely amazing, luckily he got out of there OK! I am so excited for IB that is coming out on August 21st, but you already know that!
Vanity Fair went all the way to Germany to capture the cast of the upcoming WWII epic movie Inglourious Basterds in these gorgeous photos. Seriously how sexy, authoritative and amazing do Eli Roth, Brad Pitt and Daniel Bruel all look in their uniforms in that group photo! The magazine that is out now also has some of the script to go with the pictures!
Last night Variety broke the news that not only will Inglourious Basterds premiere at Cannes next month, it is also competing for the Palme d'Or. If Quentin Tarantino wins for the award then it will be his second one because the first was for Pulp Fiction! Fingers crossed the film wins!
I am so jealous that the select few people who actually get to go to Cannes will see the movie 3 months before me on August 21st!
MindSign Neuromarketing is a company that measures people’s brain activity to see the effectiveness of consumer marketing. “At MindSign Neuromarketing they use our brain response technology to provide our clients in the advertising, entertainment, political, and software industries with data revealing what their target consumer is thinking while using their product, and seeing their ads.”
The company posted someone’s reaction to the much anticipated Inglourious Basterds’ trailer and as you can see by their reaction of the axial, sagittal, and coronal planes that person is as excited as I am for Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic movie starring Brad Pitt and Eli Roth. Seriously how f*cking cool is that technology!
On the Final Destination 2 DVD, one of the special features is they measured a person’s brain activity as they watched the death scenes in the movie to see if they really scared the crap out of people and it did! I thought that feature was one of the coolest things I ever saw on DVD, so I think it is really neat that MindSign Neuromarketing is using that technology to measure consumers’ reactions to trailers and TV shows.
If you check out MindSign Neuromarketing’s YouTube Channel you can so other people’s reaction to other trailers and TV spots and none them were as excited at the different videos as they were for Inglourious Basterds!
BTW both Inglourious Basterds and Final Destination: Death Trip 3D are coming out on August 21st and that is too much excitement for my brain!!! My brain map would be full of color if they measured it about August 21st!!!
Joe Dante, who directed such classics like Gremlins, Piranha and The Howling has created the brilliant site Trailers From Hell. On this site other brilliant directors and writers like Stuart Gordon, Edgar Wright and Eli Roth do audio commentary on their favorite trailers from year’s past! It is really cool to listen how that movie inspired them or little tidbits about the movie. Like for example in the above video Eli Roth talks how the ’80s classic movie Rock ‘N’ Roll High School was almost Disco High School. Could you imagine that movie with the likes of the Bee Gees being the same and becoming the cult classic it became? Maybe with The Village People, but most Disco acts would not have anywhere near the impact that movie made just because The Ramones were in it!!! But it is little things like that that make the site reall y cool! Some of the over 200 trailers on the site with interesting and fun wireters’ and directors’ commentary are Taxi Driver, Hollywood Blvd, The Blob, Rosemary’s Baby and Day of the Dead!
So if you are bored and want something different to do, then check out Trailers From Hell that updates all the time! I know that is how I am wasting my time!
Empire Movie News got their hands on the first three teaser posters from Inglourious Basterds. Even though the subject matter is so ugly, I think the posters are beautiful, blood all!!! The cloudy darkened skies with the bloodied shiny weapons creates such powerful images. If those teaser posters are any hint how this movie is going to be, I think we are all going to walk out in awe in the powerfullness of it all.
Quentin Tarantino's WWII epic starring Brad Pitt and Eli Roth is coming out on August 21st and you can tell how I am so excited about this movie!!!
