After the film Bordelands, this director will produce a series based on this very well-known and particularly trashy horror saga

News culture After the film Bordelands, this director will produce a series based on this very well-known and particularly trashy horror saga

Return of a flagship series saga

This is big news for the world of gore cinema: the Hostel saga is coming to television in the form of a television series. Via The Hollywood Reporter, we learn that Paul Giamatti (recently praised for his outstanding performance in “The Holdovers”) has reached an agreement to star in the series.

The project is still in development and therefore does not have a platform yet, but is already being described as a “modern adaptation,” an “elevated thriller,” and even a “reinvention” of the horror franchise that has seen three films. As for the script, we already know that it will be written by Roth and Briggs, while the former will be in charge of directing. Roth, Briggs, and Fleiss will all serve as executive producers on the series.

Eli Roth returns to horror

Eli Roth returns to his first love, He, who made a name for himself with the horror film Cabin Fever before moving on to the first Hostel with the support of a certain Tarantino; The torture porn revolves around party-loving students who are trapped in a Slovakian town by wealthy sadists who are just getting their money’s worth. The first film grossed $82 million worldwide, and the first sequel brought in another $36 million. The third film, however, the most forgettable of all, was released straight to DVD. It is also not directed by Roth, but by Scott Spiegel, director of the equally bad A Night in Hell 2: Blood Money. Aside from the Borderlands project, Roth really returned to horror in 2023 with the film adaptation of his fake Grindhouse trailer with Thanksgiving: Horror Week, a film that receives the very correct rating of 3 out of 5 stars at Allociné.

The Hollywood Reporter specifies that Giamatti will play a key role, without being able to give any further details. However, through the actor’s words, the media reminds us that his collaboration with Eli Roth has been expected for some time: “ Eli was doing Hostel in Prague and I was doing The Illusionist and I met him. We talked about killing someone in that film, but it never came to anything“I,” Giamatti said in a 2013 interview with EW.