Eli Roth’s Blockbuster/Indie Gameplan Involving ‘Grindhouse’ Spinoff!

It's been a fair amount of time since gore-master Eli Roth's Hostel 2. He last did an acting gig in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, but Roth looks to be preparing to get back into the fold with a pair of movies in-hand that he's hoping to complete together.

Eli's master plan is to finish up the script for his big science fiction blockbuster, which will look to be the biggest budget movie he's done so far. Once that script is finished, he'll shop it around along with Thanksgiving -- the movie based on the trailer that he made specifically for Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse -- for around $85 Million. His hope is to use about $80 Million for the big movie, and then add three weeks to the end of filming and do Thanksgiving for around $5 Million. Pretty ingenious little plan if it all works out, if I do say.

The blockbuster (which has a title, but can't be shared yet) will apparently have to do with some kind of monster of sorts. Here's what Roth has to say about his big project: [...]