Eli Roth has confirmed at the New York Comic-Con that his next project after Hostel II will in fact be an adaptation of Stephen King’s Cell, the script for which is currently being written by 1408 screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. In other Roth news, Cinematical chatted to the director at the convention as he tried to juggle press conferences with meeting King to discuss the feature, and they certainly let him cut loose.

“…you know, the ‘Saw’ guys, we check in with each other. They call me and they’re like ‘Oh, we just filmed this fuckin’ scene and we got this guy and he’s got all these piercings and we’re going to rip ‘em out and he blows up.’ And I’m like, ‘Okay, Fuck! I had cut to interior torture room, Whitney gets her belly button ring ripped out.’ And I just crossed it out of the script. ‘Goddamn it! That was the perfect torture!’. We actually check in with each other, none of us want to repeat the same deaths they’re doing. I notice there’s the same plastic sheeting in ‘Saw III’ then we had in ‘Hostel: Part II’ but it’s okay. I guess Jigsaw and the factory, they all go to the same Torture Depot. We check in and talk about every kill and about what got in through the MPAA. There’s a real good ‘Splat Pack Line of Communication’.”

While he’s at it Roth expounds on The Signal, Thanksgiving, Tarantino and Woody Allen.

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