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Jennifer M. Wood<\/b> and Mental Floss<\/a><\/strong> present 14 Flesh-Eating Facts About Cabin Fever<\/em><\/a><\/b>. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 6. THE SAME STUDIOS THAT PASSED ON PRODUCING THE FILM ENGAGED IN A BIDDING WAR FOR THE FINISHED PRODUCT.<\/span><\/strong> 8. PETER JACKSON WAS A FAN.<\/span><\/strong> 9. QUENTIN TARANTINO DECLARED ROTH \u201cTHE FUTURE OF HORROR.\u201d<\/span><\/strong> Jennifer M. Wood and Mental Floss present 14 Flesh-Eating Facts About Cabin Fever. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15030,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions\/15030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThough Roth\u2019s original plan for the film was to sell the script and have a studio produce it, no one was interested in buying it (hence the aforementioned eight-year process of getting it made). But a successful showing at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival changed all that: the film sparked a bidding war, with Lionsgate ultimately emerging victorious. Roth was paid $3.5 million for the film, and promised $12 million in prints and advertising. Of the many studios competing to acquire Cabin Fever<\/em>, most had already passed on producing it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nAfter hearing about\u00a0Cabin Fever<\/em> from several of his The Lord of the Rings<\/em> collaborators, Peter Jackson requested that a print be sent to him in New Zealand, where he was filming The Return of the King<\/em>. Impressed by what he was seeing, Jackson shut down production on his own film\u2014twice!\u2014to screen Cabin Fever<\/em> for his cast and crew. Eventually, Jackson invited Roth to The Lord of the Rings<\/em> set, where he offered to supply Roth with a quote about the film for his production materials. It read: “Brilliant! Fantastic! Horror fans have been waiting years for a movie like Cabin Fever<\/em>. I loved it!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nIn a 2004 interview with Premiere<\/em>, Quentin Tarantino talked at length about his admiration for\u00a0Cabin Fever<\/em>, and called Roth \u201cthe future of horror.\u201d The admiration was mutual. Tarantino and Roth would go on to become good friends and regular collaborators. In addition to directing\u00a0Thanksgiving<\/em>, one of the fake trailers in the middle of Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez\u2019s\u00a0Grindhouse<\/em>, and playing Dov in the film, Roth had a major role as Sergeant Donny Donowitz in Tarantino\u2019s Inglourious Basterds<\/em> (2009).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"