{"id":1017,"date":"2008-06-18T18:38:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T08:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/18\/a-monstrous-conversion\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T22:21:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T12:21:21","slug":"a-monstrous-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/18\/a-monstrous-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monstrous Conversion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Eli Roth, director of &#8220;torture porn&#8221; horror movies such as <em>Hostel<\/em>, has decided to turn his attention to the giant monster subgenre &#8212; and a PG-13 rating.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo! Movies reported that he was &#8220;shooting for a family crowd&#8221; with his next project.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roth told reporters on Wednesday [23 April 2008] he is two weeks away from finishing a script for a science-fiction action film inspired by the mainstream hits <em>Cloverfield<\/em> and <em>Transformers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be my first big-budget, PG-13, mass-destruction movie,&#8221; he said backstage at the music industry&#8217;s NME Awards in Los Angeles. &#8220;I want total chaos and pandemonium.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He declined to detail the plot ahead of a &#8220;big announcement&#8221; next month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/mv\/news\/va\/20080424\/120904348100.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/ottofries.proboards34.com\/index.cgi?board=News&amp;action=display&amp;thread=13150\" target=\"_blank\">Horror Movies &amp;Stuff forum<\/a> and Kaiju Search-Robot Avery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Eli Roth, director of &#8220;torture porn&#8221; horror movies such as Hostel, has decided to turn his attention to the giant monster subgenre &#8212; and a PG-13 rating. Yahoo! Movies reported that he was &#8220;shooting for a family crowd&#8221; with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/18\/a-monstrous-conversion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,18,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}