Et Tu, Eli?

So Eli Roth's next project is inspired by Transformers? Somebody hold me. Via Yahoo:

"Eli Roth, the director of the relentlessly gruesome "Hostel" movies, is aiming for a family crowd with his next project.

Roth told reporters on Wednesday he is two weeks away from finishing a script for a science-fiction action film inspired by the mainstream hits "Cloverfield" and "Transformers."

"This will be my first big-budget, PG-13, mass-destruction movie," he said backstage at the music industry's NME Awards in Los Angeles. "I went total chaos and pandemonium." He declined to detail the plot ahead of a "big announcement" next month. "I feel like I pushed the violence in R movies about as far as I can push it. I feel like I'm bled out. I wanna switch it up," said the 36-year-old protege of Quentin Tarantino.

"Everyone I know has been saying 'When are you gonna do a movie my kids can see?' And finally, I'm gonna make a movie that 13-year-old kids can see." ...

While the "Hostel" films and Roth's equally violent 2002 feature debut "Cabin Fever" were set up at independent studio Lionsgate, he said he would shop the new project to "the big guns."

Roth said his latest project meant he is not turning his back on violent movies and he expected to fulfill the needs of his bloodthirsty fans by shooting some gratuitous violence to include on an unrated version of the DVD."

Who the hell was asking Eli Roth to make a movie their kids could watch? That's what is wrong with parents today. If I were a parent, I'd be showing my kids Hostel with their Cheerios on Saturday mornings. Screw Power Rangers.

Seriously though, any news on Eli pulling together another project grabs my interest. I think it's a good idea, his switching things up a bit, and lords knows I love a good world-gone-amok tale. I just hope it's closer to Cloverfield than Transformers in spirit...

I guess we should assume his Trailer Trash movie is dead right now, huh?
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