You read that right: recent Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti is set to star in a “Hostel” TV series. The show’s creation involves the original franchise team, including Eli Roth, Chris Briggs, and Mike Fleiss.
Last year, while promoting his Academy Award-nominated comedy-drama “The Holdovers,” Paul Giamatti expressed a desire to star in a horror project.
“Horror. I’d like to do more horror. I love horror,” he said when asked what type of movie he’d like to work on next. “I like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre a lot. I love horror. Love it!” When the interviewer was a taken aback that the well-respected actor is such a Chainsaw fan, Giamatti said: “Great movie! It’s a great movie. No, no, no, no, no, it’s a great movie, it’s a beautiful movie.”
“I don’t think I could do the killer,” he went on. “But I don’t know what I would be. I would love to do something… I don’t know if I want to do that exactly, but I like horror.”
Well, Giamatti got his wish – but it’s hard to imagine anyone predicting the particular horror property he chose to be a part of!
According to THR, confirming a recent rumor from Daniel Richtman, the “Billions” star has signed on to play the lead in a TV series based on the “Hostel” movies. Eli Roth, Chris Briggs, and Mike Fleiss are all returning for this project. Described as a “modern adaptation” and an “elevated thriller” that’s also a “reinvention” of the horror franchise, the show doesn’t have a platform attached yet.
Roth and Briggs will pen the script, with Roth set to direct. Roth, Briggs, and Fleiss will all executively produce.
Details on Giamatti’s character are being kept under wraps, but there’s speculation that he will play the owner of the titular hostel, which doubles as a sadistic chamber of horrors for unfortunate travelers.
Shortly after the series was announced, Roth shared the following image on his Instagram account.
“Best friends Josh (Derek Richardson) and Paxton (Jay Hernandez) decide to spend the summer after college graduation on an all-out backpacking trip across Europe. While stopping in Amsterdam to indulge their tastes for drugs and sex, they meet Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson), a like-minded traveler from Iceland. When the three bachelors set off to investigate enticing rumours of a Slovakian hostel in a city populated by lusty women, they find themselves drawn unwittingly into a deadly game.”
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