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Eli Roth Is Ready to Invite You to ‘Thanksgiving’

23 August 2012 4:30 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

When Grindhouse hit theaters back in 2007, its main attractions were Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s feature length segments of the anthology, Planet Terror and Death Proof. But after the release came and went, a lot of the buzz surrounding the project wasn’t about the two films that played back-to-back, but the series of trailers for fake films that got sandwiched in between. Rodriguez has already launched his fake trailer, Machete, into a real-life feature film that was successful enough to spawn a sequel – but what about Eli Roth and his segment, Thanksgiving? After Grindhouse got released, much of the praise for the tribute to B-movies came from how authentic to shoddy old ’70s advertisements Roth’s holiday-themed horror trailer was. The stupid voice narrating, the terrible acting, the bad dialogue, the person roasted like a turkey…it had it all. Roth has intimated in the past that he has plans to turn Thanksgiving into a »

- Nathan Adams

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Thanksgiving Still Happening for Eli Roth

22 August 2012 11:00 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

It's been a long time since we've had anything new to report regarding the feature length version of the faux trailer Eli Roth made for Grindhouse called Thanksgiving. However, with the passing of time good things come!

Behind the Thrills caught up with Roth who offered the following update:

“It’s gonna happen. I’m working with the Clowns writers on it,” he tells the site referring to Jon Watts and Christopher D. Ford (Robot & Frank), the duo who came into Roth’s world after making their own faux trailer back in November 2010. “[We] have a call scheduled for tomorrow afternoon,” he adds stating that they will co-write the script with Roth and his writing partner Jeff Rendell. “We finally cracked the story and figured out how to make it really, really scary, and a reason to do it. Before John starts shooting Clown he has a window.” He expects to have a draft soon, »

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