Eli Roth talks Cabin Fever 2

Yesterday it was reported that Eli Roth was in a legal battle with Lions Gate. Today i found out that the director already responded. Roth e-mailed our buddies from Creature Corner to let everyone know what was going on. Here's a clip of what he had to say:

I am here in Prague finishing up HOSTEL, and I got a weird call from my friend Eythor in Iceland, who's reading on line that I'm in a legal dispute with Lion's Gate. This was strange news to me, because I have absolutely no legal battle with them whatsoever about anything. I love everyone over at Lion's Gate and have had nothing but great experiences working with them. I have a very full plate with HOSTEL and numerous other projects so I'm not involved with CABIN FEVER 2.

My concept for the sequel was a SONG OF THE SOUTH-style half-animated film where Deputy Winston sings songs (ones I was forced to learn in Hebrew school) to imaginary creatures in his head, and has sex with the burned, rotted corpses of everyone who died in the original, but they didn't go for it. Go figure. However, my CABIN FEVER co-writer Randy Pearlstein had a KICK ASS idea for the sequel, and I believe they are going to shoot that draft, so I want nothing more than for it to be a great film....

You can read the whole article here.

In the original Cabin Fever, Rider Strong stars as the geeky Paul, who hopes to settle in around the campfire with his brash buds Jeff (Joey Kern) and Bert (James DeBello), and make the moves on the nubile-but-shy Karen (Jordan Ladd).

Unfortunately, a wayward, forest-dwelling vagrant (Arie Verveen) stumbles into their lives, his skin badly desiccated by a mysterious virus. Fearing for their own lives, the quintet decide to do away with the man, with little success: He stumbles away from the campsite and into a nearby stream, where his disease quickly infects the local water supply.