GRINDHOUSE 2 is back in the works again. Or at least being talked about by Eli Roth. Apparently, Roth is planning on $500,000 for the sequel and is already writing it now. SlashFilm quoted Roth saying:

“And it would be something I’d do in between projects. But I’m actually writing it with my friend Jeff just to have it ready. The first Grindhouse cost almost 70 million dollars. So I’m like, we should do it like Dogma 95 and call it Dogshit 2007, where you get half a million bucks and six days and no rehearsals. We’d have to list out crazy rules but we still want to do it. I’ve talked about doing it as a 45 minute movie with just so many missing reels…. I talked to Quentin and Robert. They said ‘We gotta fucking do that man, that will be great!”

This sounds like the way the first GRINDHOUSE should have been made. Don’t get me wrong; the film was excellent. But it saddens me that the big budget and poor turnout could have damaged the potential franchise. Hopefully this new scheme will work out well for the studios and the fans will have more grinding to look forward to.

Molly Celaschi