Eli Eli Everywhere

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Am I looking for him, or is he looking for me? It's the eternal chicken-or-the-egg question, but I have a feeling that it's not just the fact that I wanna read every drop of Eli Roth news out there - I just think there's just a lot of Eli Roth out there right now. Much to so many people's chagrins! (Like how Manohla Dargis' only mention of Roth's performance in her Basterds review is the word "dreadful"! Lovely!) Anyway, mine and Eli's love, it's a forbidden one. Full of lusty intrigues and emotional turmoil. Passion!

Anyway! Via an interview with my love-monkey at SciFiWire comes this (and I'm ignoring the majority of the itnerview which is just him rambling about the same damned idea of filming Thanksgiving with extra money from his big sci-fi epic that he hasn't evven written yet because, as I have expressed in the past, I am so fucking tired of that spiel - Less talk! More action!) tidbit:

Another Roth idea, Trailer Trash, is dead, he said. The concept was an entire film made up of trailers spoofing all different genres of films, but that would add up to a coherent story.

"There's a disagreement," Roth said. "This was going to be with the Weinstein Co., and here I am as one of the leads in their film, so I love those guys, and we're all friends. I say this with the utmost respect, but I had a disagreement on what the movie should be. At a certain point I go, 'If that's the movie they want to make, and they're the ones paying for it, then that's what they should make.' I don't want to sit here and be fighting about it all the time. After having the same discussions over and over and over and over and over and keep coming back to the same point, I just go, 'You know what? I'm no longer interested in this.'"

The same thing happened on Roth's fizzled adaptation of Stephen King's Cell. "You go through a long period of trying to get on the same page," Roth said. "The filmmakers don't want to fight with the studio, and the studio doesn't want to fight with the filmmakers. If you see that you both have very different visions, then at a certain point it's like, 'Well, I have this other idea that I just got that I'm 100 times more excited about anyways, so you kinda lost me. I'm now interested in that one.'"

This is the first I've seen him talk about the demise of either of those properties properly. And I shoulda known it was the Weinsteins! God, they ruin everything! Stomping across other people's ideas like Idea-Stomping Godzilla Monsters.

And then there's a hefty discussion of the movie with Eli over at Slash/Film (some spoilers), where the most important question is asked and answered:

"SF: Did you keep the bat… at least one of them?

Eli Roth: I have one bat. Yeah, there were several [laughs] and I demolished most of them."

Yeah, I know which bat you kept, Eli.
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