Pleased to meat you
Current mood: 
tired
What can I say? I am the fucking luckiest director on the planet to have Lionsgate marketing my film. I saw the teaser poster last week and my jaw was on the ground. It’s truly one of the most beautiful posters I’ve ever seen. It actually reminded me of one of my mother’s oil paintings, but with a dash of Joel-Peter Witkin thrown in there. It’s macabre and creepy and it tells you everything about the movie without giving anything away. And this week we got approved by the MPAA. This is the teaser poster for Hostel Part II. There’s an article in the Los Angeles times about the poster today:
http://www.latimes.com/
I know I said I’d be blogging over at MTV.com, and I swear I am, I just haven’t had a moment to write anything yet. I’ve been in the editing room every day, except for last week when I did a photo shoot with Tim Palen, who’s the co-president of marketing at Lionsgate, and the genius who did all the posters on the first Hostel and photographed the meat for Hostel Part II. We shot some really bizarre stuff which I can’t leak out yet, but at some point I will.
I am so fucking happy with how the film’s looking. A lot of people have been e-mailing me asking about the release date, and yes, it’s June 8th. It was never January 5th. I know that date got ‘announced’ but that doesn’t mean anything, it was never a reality. The plan was always to have the movie done around April/May, so June 8th is a perfect date. I’m really, really happy with how it’s cutting together and that’s all I can say.
Eli Roth’s MySpace
That poster grosses me out, but it sure is effective! I can’t wait for June 8th!
