Eli Roth Explains Why It Took His Slasher Thanksgiving 15 Years to Hit the Big Screen

Eli Roth’s fake trailer for Thanksgiving in 2007’s Grindhouse has been developed as a full-length feature film after several production roadblocks.Collider reported that Roth’s Thanksgiving has been plagued with production issues since 2010. The slasher was first teased in 2007’s Grindhouse as a fake trailer along with Machete and Hobo with a Shotgun, both of which have since been released as standalone films. Roth told Collider he took his time developing the Thanksgiving script with co-writer Jeff Rendell, saying, “We tried to do it. There were rights issues, and then the pandemic hit. Also, we were trying to get the script right.”Roth revealed the headspace he was in when he wrote Thanksgiving. “For years, I was just connecting the dots between the trailer, and then I was like, ‘Am I just filming the scenes in between what I already did before it?'” Roth explained. He continued, “I’ll tell you, the big revelation was, [when Rendell] said, ‘I have to just pretend that Thanksgiving 1980 exists, and that it was so offensive that every print was destroyed, and the only thing that survived was the trailer. This is the reboot of what that movie was.”RELATED: 15 Horror Movies That Bombed But Became Cult Classics

Eli Roth’s fake trailer for Thanksgiving in 2007’s Grindhouse has been developed as a full-length feature film after several production roadblocks.

RELATED: 15 Horror Movies That Bombed But Became Cult Classics

Collider reported that Roth’s Thanksgiving has been plagued with production issues since 2010. The slasher was first teased in 2007’s Grindhouse as a fake trailer along with Machete and Hobo with a Shotgun, both of which have since been released as standalone films. Roth told Collider he took his time developing the Thanksgiving script with co-writer Jeff Rendell, saying, “We tried to do it. There were rights issues, and then the pandemic hit. Also, we were trying to get the script right.”

Roth revealed the headspace he was in when he wrote Thanksgiving. “For years, I was just connecting the dots between the trailer, and then I was like, ‘Am I just filming the scenes in between what I already did before it?'” Roth explained. He continued, “I’ll tell you, the big revelation was, [when Rendell] said, ‘I have to just pretend that Thanksgiving 1980 exists, and that it was so offensive that every print was destroyed, and the only thing that survived was the trailer. This is the reboot of what that movie was.”

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