Eli Roth continues to focus his efforts on producing, once again talking up AFTERSHOCK, the Chilean disaster film we last wrote about in November. In an interview with Screen Daily (via Indiewire), Roth explains that the film will be a grounded, intense thriller akin to [REC] (without the infected crazies, obviously). Nicolás López is directing from a script he co-wrote with Roth and Guillermo Amoedo.
“It is basically set in the aftermath of the Chilean earthquake. That (the idea) came from him (Lopez) describing to me what the hours were like immediately following the earthquake. Everybody is on Facebook, everybody is on Twitter, everything is hi-tech. Then, within seconds, it’s like the Stone Age. There’s no electricity, no phones. There are fires. Criminals are out of the prisons and there are no police. You don’t know what the hell is going on.”
Sounds excellent. The film is shooting in the fall.
Roth is also intent to make the big sci-fi epic ENDANGERED SPECIES his next directorial effort, but that script has yet to be nailed down to his liking. Perhaps he’s found his niche as a producer?
Lauren German, from Roth’s HOSTEL II