As Eli Roth continues to tweak his script for "Endangered Species" with an eye toward shooting in 2010, folks have been wondering if the director still plans to film his "Grindhouse" trailer-spinoff "Thanksgiving," directly after "Species."
The answer, Roth told MTV News, is yes.
"My friend Jeff Rendell, who I wrote the trailer with and who plays the pilgrim, he's in Boston right now but he's coming out to LA in January and we're going to knock out the script in a week. I want to have it ready so I can go right from 'Endangered Species' to 'Thanksgiving' back to back. I want 'Thanksgiving' to be like dessert!"
At the moment, Roth and Rendell are going back and forth as they outline ideas, coming up with different kills—both those we've seen in the trailer and completely new ones. While Roth has long planned to make a feature-length "Thanksgiving" in the same run-and-gun style in which he filmed the trailer, the director said his more recent experience making "Nation's Pride"—the faux Nazi-propaganda film within "Inglorious Basterds"—has helped hone his vision even further.
"The thing about shooting 'Nation's Pride,' I shot that thing so fast, I wasn't self-conscious," he explained. "I didn't have time to think. I was like, 'Quick, get this, get this, get this!' And when you move at that pace, you actually get into a zone where you're purely going on instinct, never second guess yourself and somehow that energy comes across and you come up with incredible stuff without doing multiple takes."
"That's how I want to do 'Thanksgiving,' " he continued. "It's a fun, straight-forward slasher movie that's really about the kills. Let's make fantastic kills, make great scares, make it as disgusting as possible, as bloody as we can push it, and have fun doing it and not overthink it."
Do you think Roth has the right idea, to shoot "Thanksgiving" in that run-and-gun style? Would you prefer that he take a more measured approach? What do you think of the original trailer seen in "Grindhouse"?
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