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Thanksgiving: Patrick Dempsey Eyed To Star In Eli Roth Film

It looks like Patrick Dempsey will top line Eli Roth's Thanksgiving which is heading into production in March for Spyglass.

Thanksgiving, the slasher film from Eli Roth based on his Grindhouse fake trailer, is gearing up to start shooting in March after years and years of promises and development hell. He may have found his star. Patrick Dempsey may be starring in the film, according to a report by Deadline this evening. Spyglass Media, who has jumped into horror with both feet these last two years to major success, is producing the film, with Roth directing a script by Jeff Rendel. Casting announcements should be forthcoming in the next few weeks, I would imagine.

Eli Roth Finally Giving Us What We Have Always Wanted

Sometimes in this job, we have to write about things we are not interested in. That is not the case here. I personally have written a few times about how Eli Roth needed to make this damn movie, and I cannot believe that day is here. Here are some quotes from an article I wrote in 2018 about the possible film:

"Eleven years later, we horror fans still wait for this film to actually be made. Roth, of course, has been asked constantly over the years about Thanksgiving, going as far as saying last in 2016 that they have been taking a wack at it during a Reddit AMA":

Have a draft not totally happy with. I want to put some more work into it so the film lives up to the trailer. We have the story and mythology cracked so now it's about getting the kills right.

"Grindhouse did bomb pretty hard at the box office, killing plans for the trailers to all get spin-off films and such, but box office is not as much a worry anymore. Sure, seeing this with a theater full of horror fans would be the way to see it, but it doesn't have to be that way. Now that we have streaming avenues like Netflix and Shudder, a major studio is not the only one who would have to step up and get Thanksgiving done. Keep the budget low, keep the spirit alive, and it would be a complete home run. I mean, this synopsis he told to Rolling Stone in 2007 says it all":

My friend Jeff… we had the whole movie worked out," Roth told the magazine. "A kid who's in love with a turkey and then his father killed it and then he killed his family and went away to a mental institution and came back and took revenge on the town.

More on Thanksgiving, as we find it out for sure.

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