Back in 2007 the USA was treated to a double-bill of PLANET TERROR and DEATH PROOF in the film GRINDHOUSE. Unfortunately due to its poor success it was split up for us in the UK. Which wasn’t so bad as DEATH PROOF sucked. Along with GRINDHOUSE came a number of fake trailers. We’ve already seen MACHETE and HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN (was included as a fake trailer in Canada), and now Eli Roth is promising us he intends to make his fake trailer THANKSGIVING a reality.Roth and his writing partner Jeff Rundell have hired the writers of CLOWN, Jon Watts and Christopher D. Ford to write the screenplay. Talking to Behind The Thrills Roth had this to say:
Dude, it’s gonna happen. I’m working with the CLOWN writers on it. We have a call scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. Jeff Rundell, my co-writer and I have a very extensive treatment. We finally cracked the story and how to make it really really scary, and the reason to do it, and I’m really excited about it. So the CLOWN script was one of the best scripts I’ve ever read, and we’re like ‘before Jon [Watts] shoots CLOWN, he has a window.’ Chris Ford, who’s movie ROBOT & FRANK just opened… Chris and John are going to write the screenplay with me and my partner Jeff, so we’ll have a screenplay soon.
Looking forward to this, as the original fake trailer had a lot of gross imagery and was also very funny. Here’s hoping Roth can recapture the tone perfectly. Here’s the trailer in case you forgot.
Source: Behind The Thrills
Matt Dennis
Aug 23, 2012 at 10:16 am
Thanksgiving is literally the only decent film Eli Roth has ever made!