Eli Roth Borrows Werner Herzog’s Tactics To Shoot Cannibal Movie ‘The Green Inferno’
By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2012 3:49 pm EST
Or maybe you can’t. The villagers thought the film was a comedy, Roth tells Movieline.
So that worked out OK. And I do like the idea of retreating to a totally remote location to shoot a horror film, even if in doing so Roth is inviting comparisons to Herzog films like Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo, which very few movies can hope to match. But I guess if you’re going to make a cannibal exploitation film, might as well go as far out on location as possible.
If you want more info on The Green Inferno, here’s a bit from today’s press release announcing casting:
Principal photography will begin November 5th in Peru on Eli Roth’s (“Hostel”, “Cabin Fever”) The Green Inferno and will star Lorenza Izzo (“Aftershock”), Ariel Levy (“Aftershock”), Aaron Burns, Daryl Sabara (“John Carter”, “Machete”), Kirby Bliss Blanton (“Project X”), Magda Apanowicz and actress/singer Sky Ferreria. Worldview Entertainment, a leading independent motion picture production and investment company, is financing and producing the horror thriller, which is directed by Eli Roth and based on a screenplay he co-wrote with “Aftershock” co-writer Guillermo Amoedo. Exclusive Media is handling the international sales to the film that will be presented to buyers at the upcoming American Film Market by Alex Walton, Exclusive Media’s President of International Sales and Distribution. CAA, which arranged financing for the film, is handling domestic rights.
