Two years in the past, Eli Roth mentioned that he was thinking about returning to the Hostel and Cabin Fever franchises – and inside six months of him saying that, we realized {that a} Hostel TV collection was within the works, with Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) connected to star within the present. It was mentioned that the collection can be coming our approach from Fifth Season, the studio behind Apple’s Severance, with Roth, Chris Briggs, and Mike Fleiss on board as govt producers. Roth and Briggs are additionally writing the mission, which Roth might be directing, the intention being to reinvent the franchise as an “elevated thriller.” Now, a yr later, Selection stories that the Hostel TV collection has discovered a house on the Peacock streaming service!
As Selection reminds us, within the Hostel franchise, harmless vacationers are kidnapped by a mysterious group referred to as the Elite Looking Membership working out of Jap Europe, with the group’s wealthy clientele paying to torture and homicide the vacationers. The primary movie was launched in theaters in 2006, with Roth writing, directing, and producing. Roth additionally wrote, directed, and produced Hostel: Half II in 2007. A 3rd movie (which moved the setting to Las Vegas) was launched direct to video in 2011, although Roth was not concerned within the manufacturing. Collectively, the primary two movies within the franchise grossed practically $120 million globally regardless of costing simply $4.8 million and $10.2 million respectively to provide.
We came upon Roth was thinking about persevering with the Hostel and Cabin Fever franchises when he advised CinePOP, “Hostel, there’s much more to do. I’d love to return to Hostel in some unspecified time in the future. And Cabin Fever as nicely. They’re part of me, like my youngsters, and I really feel like I’ve been ignoring them for too lengthy. I’d love to return to them, ultimately. I’ve concepts.“
Giamatti stays connected to star within the Hostel TV collection, which is claimed to nonetheless be within the improvement part. In 2013, Giamatti revealed to Entertainment Weekly that he nearly made a cameo within the authentic Hostel: “Eli was shooting Hostel in Prague and I was shooting The Illusionist and I met him. We talked about me actually killing somebody in that movie but it never panned out.” Now it seems like Giamatti and Roth are going to make up for misplaced time.
The Chucky collection has come and gone at Peacock (it additionally aired on Syfy and USA Community) and so they’re working with A24 on the Friday the thirteenth collection Crystal Lake, in order that they clearly have a robust curiosity in TV exhibits which are based mostly on established horror franchises.
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