Register  |   Log In  |  
Sign up to our weekly newsletter    
Search   
Empire Magazine and iPad
Follow Me on Pinterest
Empire
Trending On Empire
Two free posters with Empire magazine
Subscribe: Get Dead Island: Riptide
Empire's Soundtrack Celebration
90 Years Of Warner Bros.
Your chance to win a Blu-ray every day!
Cannes Film Festival 2013
News, photos and more from the Croisette
Movie News

LATEST HEADLINES
YESTERDAY
Bryan Singer Adds Quicksilver To Days Of Future Past
Evan Peters snags the role
Steven Soderbergh On For The Knick
He'll produce and direct a TV show with Clive Owen
Paddy Considine Set For Child 44
He'll join Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace
Gael Garcia Bernal Starring In Rosewater
For Jon Stewart
Universal Opens The School For Good And Evil
Joe Roth producing novel adaptation
New Rush Trailer Squeals In
Everyone's driven by something
Cannes 2013: Nebraska Initial Reaction
Alexander Payne's latest comedy-drama keeps it in the family
The Hangover Part III Premieres In London
A big welcome to the Wolfpack!
Star Trek Into Darkness Spoiler Podcast #2
Damon Lindelof and the rest of the writer/producers speak...
J.J. Abrams Picks New Star Wars' Costume Designer
Trek veteran Michael Kaplan gets the gig
We're The Millers Trailer Drives Up
Jason Sudeikis' drug smuggler needs a fake family...
Universal Wants to Reboot Timecop
But will Van Damme cameo for a Dammeo?
New Trailer For Grown Ups 2 Online
Nothing but a good time...
Stallone Talking To Seagal For Expendables 3
And confirms Wesley Snipes' casting. Again.
More Movie News

RELATED NEWS
02 May 2013
Red Band Aftershock Trailer Arrives
Eli Roth has a shaky night
More Movie News

RELATED REVIEWS
Spring Breakers (2013)
Empire Star Rating
The Man With The Iron Fists (2012)
Empire Star Rating
Monte Carlo (2011)
Empire Star Rating
Ramona And Beezus (2010)
Empire Star Rating
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Empire Star Rating
More new cinemas releases
DVD & Blu-ray releases

Eli Roth Feels The Aftershock
He's starring in the horror thriller

06 February 2012  |  Written by James White  |  Source: Deadline


Eli Roth Feels The Aftershock

Throw your mind back to late 2010, when we reported on Eli Roth collaborating with filmmakers to produce two very different horrors. Well, one of them – earthquake thriller Aftershockis now shooting in Chile and it’s been revealed that Roth is starring in the movie.

Aftershock was birthed by Chilean director Nicolas Lopez, based on his experience during the 2010 earthquake that hit his country. He wrote the script with Roth and Guillermo Amoedo, cranking out a script that sees inmates escaping from an insane asylum on an island during the tremors. While character info is being kept under wraps for now, Roth has revealed that he’s taking the lead and that Selena Gomez is making a cameo.

“I’ve been a huge fan of Nicolas Lopez since his remarkable debut Promedio Rojo and have watched him grow into one of the best young filmmakers out there,” Roth said in a statement picked up by Deadline. “He has the incredible combination of commercial sensibility with an artistic eye, and what he has done here in Chile with their film industry is revolutionary. This collaboration marks the beginning of what we call Chilewood, making genre films for the global market using all the resources Chile has to offer. We are making a smart elevated disaster genre movie with superb production value, something really big. The film’s going to be very scary, very intense, and very real.”

Distributors are now pitching to take the film on, and it’ll also be tagged with the Hostel man's Eli Roth Presents label.


Have Your Say
To comment on this, and all articles, register for free or login now.

First Wreck-It Ralph Pics Online
Disney's new gaming' toon
Denzel Washington Could Be The Equalizer
Update: He's in!

Your Comments

RE:
I clicked the story hoping to hear that he was tackling a serious minded earth quake project, but alas, that seems not to be the case. Though the home grown nature of this Chilean project is intriguing, the whole 'insane asylum' premise does more to turn me off than the quake aspect does to get me hyped. I can only hope Brad Bird is one day able to get his 1906 off the ground, because the threat posed by sudden bouts of extreme seismic activity is little understood by the public at large, and a More

Posted by King of Kafiristan at 15:33 on 07 February 2012 | Report This Post


CURRENT HIGHLIGHTS
Empire's Great Gatsby Video Interviews
Leonardo DiCaprio! Carey Mulligan! Tobey Maguire! Joel Edgerton! Baz Luhrmann!

Cannes Film Festival Videblogisode #3
Featuring Justin Timberlake, Marion Cotillard, Clive Owen and Carey Mulligan!

The Biggest Doctor Who Jaw-Droppers
The Time Lord's biggest surprises over 50 years of TV

Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch: A Beginner's Guide To The Avengers 2 Newcomers
Your primer on the brother and sister joining the A-team

Clint Mansell On Making Requiem For A Dream
'Darren had to edit at night because he could get access to the studio for free then.'

Arrested Development Video Interviews
Say hello to Jeffrey Tambor, David Cross, Tony Hale, Michael Cera and Alia Shawkat

Empire's Favourite Music Moments
From The Pixies to Burt Bacharach via Audioslave

Subscribe For Only £20
Get Dead Island: Riptide and six issues of Empire for only £20! Subscribe now
Steven Spielberg iPad App
Hollywood's most beloved director in this unique iPad special. Download now
Empire iPad Edition
The world's biggest movie magazine available on iPad Download now
Home  |  News  |  Blogs  |  Reviews  |  Future Films  |  Features  |  Interviews  |  Images  |  Competitions  |  Forum  |  iPad  |  Podcast  |  Magazine Contact Us  |  Empire FAQ  |  Subscribe To Empire  |  Register
© Bauer Consumer Media  |  Terms And Conditions  |  Our Data Promise To You  |  Bauer Entertainment Network
Bauer Consumer Media. Company number 1176085 (England). Registered Office: 21 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2DY