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Ever since Inglorious Basterds took cinemas by storm, Eli "The Bear Jew" Roth has been all the rage, and one can't browse the horror sites without seeing his name in some capacity. He most recently produced the thriller Cotton, which has been described as a cinema verite-style film that chronicles a disillusioned priest's final exorcism, and the always-busy Roth has already begun prepping a new flick, Endangered Species.

Speaking with MTV about the film, Roth revealed the film will be a mix between Transformers and Cloverfield, though whether or not this means it will be filmed in the same manner as the latter is anyone's guess. The plot of the film is being kept under wraps, but in a recent interview with CHUD, Roth revealed that he has been working on the script for the past eighteen months, and that it will have a much smaller budget than one would presume for a film of this caliber.

The script is currently being tweaked after Roth received from suggestions from Quentin Tarantino, and shooting is set to begin sometime next year. Special thanks to Shock for the heads up.

By Todd Gilchrist

During an exclusive telephone interview to promote his role as Pvt. Donny Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's WWII epic Inglourious Basterds, Eli Roth told Cinematical that Thanksgiving is not the next film he's set to direct, but it's definitely going to get made. "That movie, the financing, the money is in a bank account," Roth said. "I mean, I could literally say I'm starting production tomorrow we'd start. It's 100 percent up to me, but I'm just working on the script with Jeff Rendell, the co-writer. Jeff's the one who in the trailer, he plays the Pilgrim, and we're just writing it. We're just figuring it out and we're just coming up with the kills and the characters."

Thanksgiving was initially created as a fake movie trailer that connected the two theatrical halves of Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez' Grindhouse, but its own popularity inspired the director to blow it up from a 16mm short into a feature film. Roth actually indicated that Endangered Species, a PG-13 sci-fi film in the vein of Cloverfield, was to be his next directorial effort. "I want to be finished with Endangered, and then Jeff is supposed to come out to Los Angeles probably some time in August and we'll probably bang out the script," he explained, indicating that the disparate content of the two films may ultimately complement his enthusiasm creatively.