Q&A: 'Hostel: Part II' Director Eli Roth
Do you think there's a double standard, though? Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which is PG-13 and marketed as a family film, has a woman getting shot point blank in the head right at the beginning.
It's like life: It's not fucking fair. It's not a fair and equitable system. It's a system that's pretty good, but it's not without its problems. And everything gets judged differently. It's like high school: Why did that kid get a B and that kid get an A? Wake up! What planet are you on? That's what I tell these other filmmakers. What job is fair? You talk to anyone in any job in the world and it's not fair. Know what? Life's not fair. Get used to it. Make the best of it. Or shut up. Or paint or be a fucking poet, where no one will fuck with you.
Do you have any desire to make a non-horror film?
Absolutely.
Graphic novels and comic books are hot properties — are any of those contenders?
No. Not really. Not at this point. What I want to do is a comedy of all fake trailers called Trailer Trash. Basically, taking [the mock trailer included in Grindhouse] Thanksgiving and multiplying that by 25. I want to do a movie like Borat or Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Jackass — just something completely ridiculous and silly and absurd and over the top.
It's true, no one makes things like The Kentucky Fried Movie anymore…
I know! The Kentucky Fried Movie, exactly. And Trailer Trash would be perfect.
Would you pull in outside contributors, like Rodriquez and Quentin Tarantino did for Grindhouse?
Oh, yeah. I've already got a bunch of people who want to get involved in it. Rodriquez is going to do one. Edgar Wright is going to do one. Peter Berg has a great one he wants to do… It'll be fun as hell. Just totally ridiculous and silly. Every director has that terrible pet film they wish they could do, but they know if they did it, it would ruin their career. Now you can do it in Trailer Trash. Then if the trailer really works, you can go and make the feature.
People seemed to like your trailer for Thanksgiving. Any chance you'll go and make that as a feature?
I said that to Edgar Wright. We said if they make Grindhouse 2, I'd do Thanksgiving if he does Don't. We do each one as 45-minute films with tons of missing reels, but we'd have to do them in a controlled, contained way. Like the way they have Dogma 95? This is called Dogshit 2005. And we'd have crazy rules: No rehearsals, one take, and if you have a high school scene, no actors under 25.
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