"Hostel" TV series in the works at Peacock...

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Eli Roth’s Hostel franchise is coming back to life with a television series, we recently learned, and Variety updates this morning that the series is in development at streamer Peacock.

Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti is attached to star!

Variety also notes in today’s report that Eli Roth will be writing, directing and producing the Hostel series, which marks his return to the franchise almost 20 years after Hostel: Part II.

The outlet reports, “Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss, who produced all the Hostel films, are executive producers. Fifth Season is the studio. Exact plot details are being kept under wraps.”

Giamatti is actually a longtime fan of the Hostel films. “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.

Released in 2005, Hostel was set in a world where the rich can pay to literally torture and murder captured victims, and Eli Roth returned to direct Hostel: Part II in 2007. The film did spawn second sequel Hostel: Part III in 2011, but Scott Spiegel took over as director.