Jalen Thomas Brooks and Nell Verlaque have been added to the cast of Eli Roth’s movie Thanksgiving. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brooks is best known for his recurring role on the CW’s Walker, while Verlaque is a series regular on the Disney+ series Big Shot. They are joining Addison Rae and Patrick Dempsey in Roth’s slasher horror movie from Spyglass. Thanksgiving is based on a faux trailer Roth made for the 2007 Quentin Tarantino-Robert Rodriguez double-feature Grindhouse. While the plot details are still vague, the movie will mainly focus on a slasher who comes to a small Massachusetts town with plans to make a Thanksgiving carving board out of the town’s inhabitants. Roth and the Thanksgiving cast will start production in March in Toronto.
Eli Roth’s Long-Awaited ‘Thanksgiving’ Movie Finds Cast
Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is getting its cast just over six weeks after the movie was announced. The film has been a long time coming for many Roth fans. The faux trailer was released in Grindhouse, the 2007 double-feature that gave us Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof and Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror. It was one of five faux trailers shown during the double feature, including the trailers for Machete and Hobo with a Shotgun which were eventually made into movies. The Thanksgiving movie trailer was particularly memorable for its use of the shocking violence prevalent in many of Roth’s movies, such as Hostel and The Green Inferno. The trailer was riddled with nudity, decapitations, and a segment involving a cheerleader that we cannot describe in detail here. The two actual movies alone are quite gruesome, but the Thanksgiving trailer was so explicit that it nearly earned Grindhouse an NC-17 rating.
Gruesome as his material may be, Eli Roth’s many fans have waited 17 years for an actual Thanksgiving movie. Now with a cast coming on board, it looks like they will finally get their wish for a bloody Turkey Day slasher.
