As for working with Kevin Williamson, I was 22 and had written Cabin Fever and someone told me they read this new guy Kevin Williamson’s script Scary Movie.
Deadline has brought word that Miramax will be reuniting with Kevin Williamson and teaming up with Eli Roth for an adaptation of the Erica Ferencik survival novel The River at Night, for which the studio has just acquired the screen rights.
“Kevin and I had long been a mutual admiration society, and when he told me this was Girls Trip meets Deliverance, I said, I’m in,” Roth told Deadline.
“It was just sad and I remember suggesting he get a life,” Williamson said of Roth. “But we’ve been friends for years and always talked about working together.