Cell with John Cusack

**Heather19** · 06-03-2008 01:45 PM

Yes, Eli Roth has the rights to it I believe. I think he was going to start working on it a year or so ago, but then put it on the back burner to work on trailer trash (or whatever it's called). However, I'm not sure if he's still doing that so maybe he'll pick up Cell again soon.

**Matt** · 06-03-2008 01:55 PM

I really hope so, I would love to see this book as a movie. My expectations wouldn't be nearly as high as the DT series.

**Ricky** · 06-03-2008 03:21 PM

Yeah, it's going to be a movie but they keep pushing the release date back every year. I have some doubts about it with Roth at the helm though. I'm worried that he'll turn it into another unnecessary gore fest instead of focusing on the story.

**razz** · 06-03-2008 03:25 PM

hopefully they at least leave Charlie in it. They'll probably make Clay gay, and have some freaky scene with Tom.
I hate you, ricky. Every time i see your posts, i click the spoiler button.

**Ricky** · 06-03-2008 03:42 PM

So do you keep clicking the same button, knowing what the answer will be?

I also have an attraction to pressing the spoiler buttons.

**razz** · 06-03-2008 03:46 PM

yep. and when i hide it again, i have to resist the urge to click again.

**Ricky** · 06-03-2008 03:55 PM

Have a little bit of OCD going on?

Don't worry, I do it too. I have to press the spoiler buttons. Even if it's one for something I haven't read yet, I have to press it but I don't look at the contents.

**Heather19** · 06-03-2008 04:27 PM

I would love to see this made as a film. I think it would translate very well to the screen. And I think I'm one of the few that wouldn't mind Roth doing this.

**nordh** · 06-04-2008 06:20 AM

I think the movie The Signal is rather similar to Cell. I have yet to watch it, but that's what I've heard.

**mdcphoto** · 06-08-2008 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by Heather19

I would love to see this made as a film. I think it would translate very well to the screen. And I think I'm one of the few that wouldn't mind Roth doing this.

I am also pumped about the "2009" date for this movie and I won't mind him doing the movie but I do share the concerns of others about him making it a gore fest. The movies he has been associated with aren't exactly blockbusters in my view, however they aren't "bad" either. I do always go into these things with high expectations though regardless so let's hope for the best

Woohoo

**razz** · 06-08-2008 11:09 AM

i will enjoy every ounce of blood that is hopefully added, as long as they stick to the story.

**Heather19** · 06-08-2008 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by razz

i will enjoy every ounce of blood that is hopefully added, as long as they stick to the story.

I agree. The one thing I think he will do is make it more violent and bloody, but I think that would fit the story just fine.

And one other thing I did hear from somewhere was that he wanted to show the outbreak happening all over the world, not just in Boston. That's the one thing I would disagree with. I liked how the book just focused on a small area, and a small group of people, and it left you wondering what was going on with the rest of the world.

**razz** · 06-08-2008 02:46 PM

lets see what mr. Roth has to say:

I fucking love that book. Such a smart take on the zombie movie. I am so psyched to do it. I think you can really do almost a cross between the Dawn of the Dead remake with a 'Roland Emmerich' approach (for lack of a better reference) where you show it happening all over the world. When the pulse hits, I wanna see it hit EVERYWHERE. In restaurants, in movie theaters, at sports events, all the places that people drive you crazy when they're talking on their cell phones. I see total armageddon. People going crazy killing each other - everyone at once - all over the world. Cars smashing into each other, people getting stabbed, throats getting ripped out. The one thing I always wanted to see in zombie movies is the actual moment the plague hits, and not just in one spot, but everywhere. You usually get flashes of it happening around the world on news broadcasts, but you never actually get to experience it happening everywhere. Then as the phone crazies start to change and mutate, the story gets pared down to a story about human survival in the post-apocalyptic world ruled by phone crazies. I'm so excited, I wish the script was ready right now so I could start production. But it'll get written (or at least a draft will) while I'm doing Hostel 2, and then I can go right into it. It should feel like an ultra-violent event movie.[4]

**theBeamisHome** · 06-17-2008 10:01 AM

hmm.. i remember being vaguely worried about whethe or not the Pulse had happened to everyone around the world.. so i wouldn't mind if they showed a lil of that as long as it was brief. i'd be concerned about Roth sticking to the story i suppose, but the book was really a lot of a gorefest itself.. at least in the beginning it was.

**Bev Vincent** · 05-23-2009 06:02 AM

In 2007, [Eli Roth] was attached to direct an adaptation of Stephen King's epic zombie thriller "Cell," but later dropped out. "I walked away from it," he says. "I love Stephen King and I love the book, but I want to write my own stories."

>>> Source

**mia/susannah** · 05-23-2009 06:05 AM

Oh, that is to bad.I would love to see a movie made out of Cell!!!

**Bev Vincent** · 05-23-2009 08:30 AM

Roth would have ruined it, I think. Better in the hands of someone else.

**mia/susannah** · 05-23-2009 08:36 AM

I don't know much anything really about movie producers but I hope someone good will make a movie of Cell.

**Lily-sai** · 05-23-2009 09:31 AM

Yes, I really want to see the Harvard man in front of my eyes. It's quite easy to ruin this movie in wrong hands, so let's hope for the best.

And why I'm thinking of Thomas Jane as Clay Riddell? why, oh why? *slaps myself*

**sarajean** · 05-23-2009 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by Bev Vincent

Roth would have ruined it, I think. Better in the hands of someone else.

quoted for truth.

**razz** · 05-23-2009 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by Lily-sai

Yes, I really want to see the Harvard man in front of my eyes. It's quite easy to ruin this movie in wrong hands, so let's hope for the best.

And why I'm thinking of Thomas Jane as Clay Riddell? why, oh why? *slaps myself*

is he the same guy who played Drayton in the Mist, as well as Castle in The Punisher?

**Lily-sai** · 05-23-2009 10:30 AM

Yes, that one. *still slapping myself*

**Heather19** · 05-23-2009 11:06 AM

Am I the only one that thinks Roth would have done a decent job on this one?
I'm kinda disappointed that he's not going to do it. I really wanted to see this on the big screen. I hope someone picks it up soon, because I think out of all of King's stories this one would translate very well to film. And if it gets done, let's just hope it's someone good that decides to make it. I'm worried Mick Garris might want to pick it up now.

**fernandito** · 05-23-2009 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by sarajean

Originally Posted by Bev Vincent

Roth would have ruined it, I think. Better in the hands of someone else.

quoted for truth.

QFT! Dude, no one spells it out! What's wrong with you?

Anyway, I agree with these two peeps right here!

**obscurejude** · 05-23-2009 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by feverishparade

Originally Posted by sarajean

Originally Posted by Bev Vincent

Roth would have ruined it, I think. Better in the hands of someone else.

quoted for truth.

QFT! Dude, no one spells it out! What's wrong with you?

Anyway, I agree with these two peeps right here!

Quoted for semi truths. I spell it out too.

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