Poor Eli Roth. He had a promising future with his Cabin Fever debut, but then quickly slid down hill with his Hostel and Hostel Part 2 follow ups. And after his trailer contribution to Grindhouse, it looks like Roth is another young director who has succumbed to his own interest in dead genres and failed concepts. Amidst the Grindhouse 2 rumors, Roth’s next project was to tackle an adaptation of Stephen King’s Cell, a zombie story of cell phones turning people into mindless brain munchers. Now, it looks like Roth is turning his tension away from that, toward a conceptual failure -- Trailer Trash, a feature film composed entirely of trailers.
"What's happening with Cell is the script is not done," Roth said in an interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego, Calif., on July 28. " I've just been so focused on Hostel Part 2 that I haven't really been able to tear my attention towards it. I think right now I'm going to focus on Trailer Trash for a little bit, while kind of overseeing the script for Cell, but the script is still in development. I think that those two will be enough."
Roth – rarely humble and mostly self-congratulatory in the press – is putting a chance to step outside his world, direct a project that didn’t come solely from him and perhaps even grow as a director, in favor of a project that any movie fan has in middle school (i.e. a movie made of fake trailers).
