Eli Roth on CELL Movie

Posted by: MacReady

As reported earlier, Eli Roth will direct the adaptation of Stephen King's novel "Cell" after he finishes work on "Hostel 2". During an interview at the Saturn Awards he now talked about what we can expect from the movie. And believe me, i expect much. I already read the book twice and really love it. But i also like Roth's style of movies so i believe that he really can make a cool adaptation. But now read on for some clips of the interview:

"It's going to be a full-on, big-budget, apocalyptic zombie movie. Really sort of like more in the spirit of the 'Dawn of the Dead' remake. Everyone on a cell phone gets zapped, and they go completely insane. So they're not really zombies. They're just people that go around killing anyone that's in front of them."

"Well, there's going to be a little bit of violence. There's going going to be some blood. I want to make it really, really, really sick. Just full-on sick. But I also want to try to make it a worldwide event. Like, I don't want to see it just happening in one little town. I really want to see people going crazy all over the world and just see the end of civilization."

You can read the complete article right here. The book tells the story of Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, who is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. Heâ€™s just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. Heâ€™s already picked up a small (but inexpensive!) gift for his long-suffering wife, and he knows just what heâ€™ll get for his boy Johnny. Why not a little treat for himself? Clayâ€™s feeling good about the future.

That changes in a hurry. The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyoneâ€™s cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilizationâ€™s darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest natureâ€¦and then begins to evolve.....

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