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Eli Roth Surrenders to Your Kids
The director of the very violent Hostel movies to make a film the whole family can enjoy.

It happens eventually to every filmmaker and actor associated with R-rated movies*, and now Eli Roth, the “torture porn auteur” who gave us Hostel and Hostel II, is making the transition to family-friendly fare — in order to make the kids happy, of course.

No, it has nothing to do with the money, which comes more easily with younger-targeted, lower-rated releases (especially when your last movie disappoints). It has to do with the realization that kids don’t have enough movies made for them, and they’d apparently like to see what Eli Roth’s talent is like. Only, up until now, they haven’t been allowed. As Roth defends the move:

“Everyone I know has been saying ‘When are you gonna do a movie my kids can see?’ And finally, I’m gonna make a movie that 13-year-old kids can see.”

The movie, which Roth is still scripting, is described as being inspired by Cloverfield and Transformers, with all the “mass-destruction” and “chaos and pandemonium” that would entail. But it won’t be too scary, as it’s being planned strictly to receive a PG-13 rating. Roth says he feels “like he pushed the violence in R rated movies about as far as [he] can push it,” and that he’s “bled out.”

However, he isn’t completely done with the gore and promises that the unrated DVD version of this planned PG-13 movie will feature some gratuitously violent scenes shot specifically to be left on the cutting room floor. Hey, as long as the hypocritical studios allow it, that’s a brilliant idea.

* Here’s a sampling of others who did it for the kids:

• Mark Wahlberg on making Invincible: “It’s a movie my kids can see - my nieces and nephews. I haven’t had that. None of my nieces and nephews have seen Boogie Nights, thank God! I haven’t made too many PG movies.” (via IMDb/WENN)
• Jodie Foster on making Nim’s Island: “I was dying to do something lighter and I was excited about a movie my kids could see.” (via Just Jared)
• Gary Sinise on making Mission to Mars: “I can take my kids to it and that’s a nice thing to be able to do. They’ve been asking me when I’m going to do something that they can see.” (via The Cranky Critic)
• The Rock on making The Game Plan (by way of reporter Marshall Fine): “Meanwhile, he’s just happy he’s finally made a movie that his 6-year-old daughter can see (”She sat all the way through it,” he notes). Like Joe in “The Game Plan,” Johnson found that parenthood required adjustments to his life that he never imagined himself making.” (via NY Daily News)
• Gary Oldman on making Lost in Space: “I wanted to do a movie my son could see.” (via Entertainment Weekly)
• Vin Diesel on making The Pacifier: “I needed to do a film that my niece and nephew could see. I needed to do a film that my godchildren could see. I needed to do a film that would dispel the fact that the only movie I’ve ever done was “Iron Giant” for these toddlers.” (via MTV)

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Greengrass’ Green Zone: BlogNosh 04/22/08
Paul Greengrass takes on Iraq. Plus: BAGHEAD, Madonna, and Lindsay Lohan.

• Ain’t It Cool has pictures from the Morocco set of The Green Zone, a Paul Greengrass film about the war in Iraq starring Matt Damon. AICN’s tipster says the U.S. military has refused to provide props for the film because of the script’s critical stance towards the war. I don’t know that it’s exactly standard practice for the military to lend equipment to Hollywood productions anyway, but LIBERTAS says this is just one more sign that filmmakers who question the war are “enablers of evil willing to squander tens-of-millions in the hope of watching untold numbers of abandoned Iraqis fed into the meat grinder of death squads and terrorists.”
• Eugene at indieWIRE notices the similarities between the new poster for Baghead, and the poster for 60s sex farce Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (starring young Elliott Gould….drool). I think the Baghead poster is kind of awesome––I love it that it downplays the totally (and I’m sure somewhat intentionally) unconvincing horror aspect of the film.
• Vulture counts down budding filmmaker Madonna’s five worst in front of the camera contributions to the music video canon. The big loser is the partially-animated “Dear Jessie”, which is truly awful, but also enough of an oddity that it’s a shame it’s already been removed from YouTube.
• To close the day on the most prurient note possible: the tabloids say Lindsay Lohan’s drinking again, but Radar says she’s just an avid Facebook updater who takes both her sobriety and alleged lesbian lover Samantha Ronson very seriously.

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