More disappointment for Big Fat Liar fans as Paul Giamatti signs on to Hostel TV show

In what can only be described as a dark day for anyone hoping Paul Giamatti would use his Oscar clout to get an eight-episode Big Fat Liar miniseries made, the Academy Award-winning actor who Frankie Muniz made blue is checking into the Hostel. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Paul Giamatti’s next role will be in a TV series based on Eli Roth’s notorious extreme horror hit Hostel. The film, credited along with Saw, as kickstarting the post-9/11 run of so-called “torture porn” splatter films, sees a trio of backpackers booking a stay at one of those cheap sadism motels, where creeps in masks rip your toes off and stuff. But where TripAdvisor says, “No,” Giamatti says, “Go.”

Franchise mastermind Eli Roth, currently promoting his upcoming Borderlands adaptation, is returning to write and direct the series, along with co-writer Chris Briggs, who was a producer on the original. However, while Giamatti is pegged for a “key role” in what’s already being called a “modern adaptation,” an “elevated thriller,” and a “reinvention” (this whole thing is going to be about cancel culture, isn’t it?), not much is known about the plot.

However, as noted by The Hollywood Reporter, the show might finally give Giamatti the opportunity to kill someone in a Hostel thing. Speaking to EW in 2013, Giamatti said he met Roth in Prague while he was making The Illusionist and Roth was making Hostel. “We talked about me actually killing somebody in that movie, but it never panned out,” Giamatti said, presumably allowing a single tear to flow down his cheek in commemoration of the missed opportunity. As luck would have it, that fateful meeting between Giamatti and Roth would help the former land John Dies At The End. John Dies director Don Coscarelli says he received an “over-the-top email” from Roth alerting him to the news that “Paul Giamatti wants to work with you.”

See that, Mr. Giamatti. We’ve come full circle. If you love something, set it free, and if it returns, it was meant to be. So, chin up. You’ll get to kill someone in a Hostel yet.