ROTTEN TOMATOES: Richard Kelly & Eli Roth Are Still Getting Into "The Box"

Richard Kelly & Eli Roth Are Still Getting Into "The Box"

by Scott Weinberg | September 19, 2005

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A long-gestating project between "Donnie Darko's" Richard Kelly and "Cabin Fever's" Eli Roth, one that's based on an unpublished story by genre giant Richard Matheson, may finally be getting underway, says Sci-Fi Wire.

"Writer/director Richard Kelly told SCI FI Wire that he's still developing an SF movie called "The Box" with director Eli Roth, based on an unpublished story by Richard Matheson, with an eye to a 2006 start. "We are still just trying to get the script right," Kelly said in an interview on the set of his next movie, "Southland Tales," in Manhattan Beach, Calif., on Sept. 16. "I hope we make it early next year. Eli, I think, he wants to do it next. We're dying to do it. It's just us getting the script just right."

Kelly acquired the rights to Matheson's story, which was turned into an episode of the 1980s TV show "The Twilight Zone" entitled "Button, Button."

The premise of the story is that a financially strapped couple is given a box with a button on top and told that if they push it, they'll immediately receive $200,000, but someone they don't know will die.

Kelly's "Southland Tales" is currently in production with an eye to a 2006 release."

Eli Roth's newest horror flick, "Hostel," just had it North American debut at the Toronto Film Festival.

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pota1967 writes:
on Sep 19 2005 06:15 AM

[b]The Box[/b]
Sounds like it will be a short movie--who in their right mind would push the button

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Nemesis8704 writes:
on Sep 19 2005 07:15 AM

^people that are poor.
Duh.

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johnqpopcorn writes:
on Sep 19 2005 01:37 PM

[b]Loved that twilight zone[/b]
That's one of the new twilight zones (80's edition) that I still talk about. I can see how they could stretch it out with character building and suspense. Hope it makes it way to the screen again.

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Sadistik writes:
on Sep 19 2005 05:02 PM

[b]what is kelley thinking[/b]
He should distance himself at all costs from Eli Roth, a TALENTLESS hack in the worst sense. He fancies himself the saving knight of horror but is laughed at by true horror fans. Cabin Fever was embarassing as a viewer. I'd probably be suicidal had I been responsible for it. Amateurish, inept, laughably scripted, and shot, apparently, by a crew of retarded, blind 12 year olds who decided "dude, it would be cool to make a horror film". Eli Roth should never be allowed NEAR camera equipment in the future.

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pota1967 writes:
on Sep 20 2005 07:50 AM

[b]was Cabin Fever worse than[/b]
Wrong Turn?

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BleeD_MerCurY writes:
on Sep 20 2005 10:43 PM

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no it's not that bad. 'cabin fever' wasn't great or anything, but it has it's moments, like a cringe-inducing leg shaving scene and a scene where a guy swallows a harmonica that made me lmao. CB at least tries to be original, where as 'wrong turn' was just another run-of-the-mill stupid slasher flick.

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