Eli Roth sat down with Now Playing Magazine recently and chatted a bit about how he snagged the directing gig for Stephen King’s latest, CELL:
“Cell happened because of my producer, Mike Fleiss, who I produced Hostel with. He called me right as I was going away to do this five-week press tour for the international release of Hostel, and there were several other producers that were going after the property. He asked what I thought of it, and said he thought we’d have a pretty good chance to get it because Stephen King really liked Hostel, which definitely helped.”
As to the effect CELL will have on some of Roth’s other projects, he had this to say:
Some of [those projects] I’m going to have to let go, because I can’t do everything and I’m friends with all the producers on those projects and I don’t want to stop them from getting them made. But you can’t kiss all the girls, although, believe me, I have tried.”
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