MIPBlog spoke to Eli Roth (notably director of Hostel horror films) and actress Famke Janssen (Goldeneye, The X-Men, Nip/Tuck) about Hemlock Grove, the latest Netflix original series.
Roth describes the werewolf-focused series as « Twin Peaks, but with a whole monstrous spin on it. » Roth also explained how Netflix’s interest in Roth was data-driven: « they have all this data, like views of the Hostel films, which mean I have a high Netflix rating. » The other advantage of going with the streaming platform? « I could really approach it like a 13-hour movie, » said Roth.
For Janssen, « the combination of Gaumont and Netflix, and then the material itself, plus a character I could really get my teeth into, » summed up the project’s appeal to her from the outset.
More on Hemlock Grove in our liveblog report of Roth & Janssen’s MIPTV conference session, here
