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Eli Roth’s next directorial project will be a horror film about cannibals!

The director of 'Hostel' is back with a project that could be all the rage nowadays...

Over the past few weeks word has begun to leak out (starting at the close of the Cannes Film Festival) that Eli Roth has set up his return to directing (he hasn’t made a feature since ‘Hostel: Part II’) by selling distribution rights to the flick known as ‘The Green Inferno’. Well, Variety is reporting here that Roth’s flick will be about Cannibals, and will have a spiritual tie of sorts to the cult classic ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ (presenting either a really good or really bad sense of irony, depending on how you tie that in to current news events). After the jump you can see the little bit about the plot that’s known right now, but as someone who thinks that Roth has a world of talent but has yet to really harness it, I’m hoping that this could be the one for him. You can read more below…

Here’s what the story says the film will be about:

Apparently inspired by Italo mondo films like Ruggero Deodato’s notorious 1980 “Cannibal Holocaust” and Antonio Climati’s 1988 “Natura contro” (also known as “The Green Inferno” and “Cannibal Holocaust II”), “The Green Inferno” follows an idealistic student and a group of naive do-gooders who are captured by cannibalistic Indios after their plane crash lands in the Peruvian jungle. Exclusive Media is handling international sales for the pic.

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When he’s not obsessing over new Oscar predictions on a weekly basis, Joey is seeing between 200 and 300 movies a year. He views the best in order to properly analyze the awards race/season each year, but he also watches the worst for reasons he mostly sums up as "so you all don't have to". In his spare time, you can usually find him complaining about the Jets or the Mets. Still, he lives and dies by film. Joey's a voting member of the Internet Film Critics Association as well. Today the IFCA, tomorrow the world!

9 Comments

  1. Joey Magidson

    June 9, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    He’s got a few projects in the works I’m more interested in than this one, but I’ll be seeing it.

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  2. Jessie Makowski

    June 9, 2012 at 5:49 pm

    How timely!

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  3. John Rivera

    June 9, 2012 at 11:32 pm

    He should make it a documentary with the recent events

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  4. Josh P.

    June 10, 2012 at 2:04 am

    I know that Tarantino has vouched for him over the years, but I’ve yet to really see something he’s done that shows me that promise of a filmmaker. What qualities do you see in Roth as a filmmaker give him potential? I’m not asking sarcastically; I’m genuinely curious.

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    • Joey Magidson

      June 10, 2012 at 2:23 am

      He’s got an interesting sense of humor that he infuses into his flicks…while I think his bets work is still the fake trailer for Thanksgiving, if you look at the Hostel flicks, they’d be much worse with a for hire director. I’ve yet to see him fully put it all together, but I get this sense that he’s always on the verge of something really good.

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      • Josh P.

        June 10, 2012 at 1:39 pm

        Fair enough. I agree that the fake trailer to “Thanksgiving” is probably his best work, and one of the highlights of “Grindhouse.”

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