In what can only be described as a dark day for anyone hoping Paul Giamatti would use his Oscar clout to get an eight-episode miniseries made, the Academy Award-winning actor who Frankie Muniz made blue is checking into the . , Paul Giamatti’s next role will be in a TV series based on Eli Roth’s notorious extreme horror hit . The film, credited along with , as kickstarting the post-9/11 run of so-called “torture porn” splatter films, sees a trio of backpackers booking a stay at one of those cheap sadism motels, where creeps in masks rip your toes off and stuff.
But where TripAdvisor says, “No,” Giamatti says, “Go.” Franchise mastermind Eli Roth, currently promoting his upcoming adaptation, is returning to write and direct the series, along with co-writer Chris Briggs, who was a producer on the original. However, while Giamatti is pegged for a “key role” in what’s already being called a “modern adaptation,” an “elevated thriller,” and a “reinvention” (this whole thing is going to be about cancel culture, isn’t it?), not much is known about the plot.
However, as noted by , the show might finally give Giamatti the opportunity to kill someone in a thing. Speaking to in 2013, Giamatti said he met Roth in Prague while he was making and Roth was making . “We talked about me actually killing somebody in that movie, but it never panned out,” Giamatti said, presumably allowing a single tear to flow down his cheek in commemoration of the missed op.
