‘Hostel’ TV Series Starring Paul Giamatti in the Works
#Hostel is coming to television.
Paul Giamatti has closed a deal to star in a 'Hostel' TV series with the franchise’s Eli Roth, Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss all returning for the project: https://t.co/E1GUhSEf3H pic.twitter.com/Wl6Ns81XAI
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 4, 2024
Paul Giamatti has closed a deal to star in a Hostel TV series with the franchise’s Eli Roth, Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss all returning for the project from Fifth Season, the studio behind Apple’s Severance.
The show is described as being a “modern adaptation” and an “elevated thriller” that’s also a “reinvention” of the horror franchise that launched in 2006.
Roth and Briggs will pen the script, with the former set to direct.
Roth and Giamatti first met during production on the first Hostel film. “Eli was shooting Hostel in Prague and I was shooting The Illusionist and I met him. We talked about me actually killing somebody in that movie but it never panned out,” Giamatti told EW in a 2013 interview.