UPDATED: Eli Roth Directing Willis In ‘Death Wish’

UPDATED: According to Variety, Eli Roth is now the director of this movie.

PREVIOUSLY: It was reported a while back that Bruce Willis was set to re-do the Death Wish thing.  Joe Carnahan was also on board, however Carnahan pulled out when Paramount-MGM insisted on casting Willis.  Now more have left the project.

According to Deadline, Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, directors of 2013’s Big Bad Wolves, have dropped out of the project due to creative differences. They say: “We wanted to stay away from the original and problematic (albeit fun to watch) Michael Winner film, and move more towards the spirit of the original novel by Brian Garfield – an excellent minimalist novel that never got the cinematic treatment it deserved… Unfortunately, the time table for the project did not allow us to make the big changes we wanted to make to the script, and as time passed we realized that we were not going to get what we wanted for this project. Last night, after long deliberations we finally decided to leave the project.”

It’s almost like there’s something about this movie people don’t like.