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10.03.2023 - 01:23 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: TriStar Pictures has landed Spyglass Media Group ‘s Thanksgiving, a full-length slasher film inspired by the legendary fictitious trailer directed by Eli Roth that was featured in the 2007 cult film, Grindhouse. Roth returns as director and co-wrote the script with Jeff Rendell with Roger Birnbaum, Roth and Rendell producing.
While the plot for the film is being kept under wraps, the horror thriller will star Patrick Dempsey, Nell Verlaque, Addison Rae, Jalen Thomas Brooks and Milo Manheim.
Spyglass’ Chairman and CEO, Gary Barber and Peter Oillataguerre, President of Production, will serve as executive producers alongside Cream Productions Inc.’s Kate Harrison. Oillataguerre and Chris Stone, Senior Vice President of Production & Development, will oversee the film on behalf of Spyglass. Caellum Allan and Kelseigh Coombs will oversee the film for TriStar Pictures.
Deadline was first to report the news that Roth would make this next feature and once the package started to come together with talent, studios were lining up to land the package. Nicole Brown, President of TriStar Pictures, is all about filmmaker driven projects and once Roth announced this was his next film, she set out to make sure TriStar landed the pic and aggressively pursued the rights and ultimately landed the package.
The film will be released in theaters worldwide by TriStar Pictures and Spyglass Media Group.
Roth is best known for horror films Cabin Fever, Hostel and The House with a Clock in Its Walls, which were global box office hits. Up next, Roth directed Borderlands with Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis, which he also co-wrote with The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin.
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Hollywood legend Samuel L. Jackson is filming a new blockbuster about a serial killer terrorising Scotland.
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EXCLUSIVE: Gina Gershon, Tim Dillon and Rick Hoffman are set to join the cast of TriStar Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s horror pic Thanksgiving, Eli Roth’s next feature film which is based on the fake trailer featured in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse. Roth co-wrote the script with Jeff Rendell, with Roger Birnbaum, Roth and Rendell producing. TriStar recently landed the distribution rights to the film once the package hit the market a couple weeks back.
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TriStar Pictures has acquired Spyglass Media Group‘s “Thanksgiving,” a full-length slasher film inspired by the fake trailer from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s double feature “Grindhouse,” according to an insider with knowledge of the project.Roth is attached to direct the horror thriller film. “Thanksgiving” is co-written by Roth and Jeff Rendell, with Roger Birnbaum, Roth and Rendell producing.Chatter has existed about turning the jokey trailer into an actual movie, with Roth having written a screenplay over a dozen years ago.
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