{"id":704104,"date":"2026-07-21T22:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704104\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:01:11","slug":"paul-giamatti-led-hostel-redone-as-a-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704104\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Giamatti-Led &#8220;Hostel&#8221; Redone As A Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/paul-giamatti-skipping-starfleet-academy-s2.jpg\" data-caption=\"Paramount+\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/paul-giamatti-skipping-starfleet-academy-s2.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"paul-giamatti-skipping-starfleet-academy-s2\"\/><\/a>Paramount+<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago came the news that Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti has closed a deal to star in a TV series based on Eli Roth\u2019s gory horror film franchise \u201cHostel\u201d at Pescock.<\/p>\n<p>Eli Roth, Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss were all returning for the project as executive producers, the work was said to be a \u201cmodern adaptation\u201d and a \u201creinvention\u201d of the material.  Roth was also going to direct from a script co-written with Briggs.<\/p>\n<p>Roth now tells film journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/edwarddouglas.substack.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Douglas of The Weekend Warrior<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldofreel.com\/blog\/2026\/7\/21\/eli-roths-paul-giamatti-led-hostel-series-passed-over-by-peacock-now-a-feature-film\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WoR<\/a>) that Peacock has passed on the series and so they are now redeveloping it as a theatrical feature.<\/p>\n<p>No further information was revealed, beyond it being a modern-day reinvention of the original film\u2019s premise.  Giamatti is expected to star in a key role, with character details under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll mark Giamatti\u2019s first TV gig since a recurring appearance on \u201cStar Trek: Starfleet Academy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The original followed three American backpackers as they headed to a Slovak city for a wild time, with no idea of the hell that awaits them as they are eventually taken one-by-one by a group that allows people to torture and kill others.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/tv-news-rings-myron-piece-career\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV News: Rings, Myron, Piece, Career<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/robocop-tv-series-is-a-go-at-amazon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRobocop\u201d TV Series Is A Go At Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount+ Two years ago came the news that Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti has closed a deal to star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-704104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}