The Hollywood Reporter is exclusively reporting that Eli Roth, Chris Briggs, and Mike Fleiss, are developing a series adaptation of the 2006 film Hostel, with Paul Giamatti set to star.

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The official synopsis from the original film is as follows:

Best friends Joshua and Paxton decide to spend the summer after college graduation on an all-out backpacking trip across Europe. While stopping in Amsterdam to indulge their tastes for drugs and sex, they meet Oli, a like-minded traveller from Iceland. When the three bachelors set off to investigate enticing rumours of a Slovakian hostel in a city populated by lusty women, they find themselves drawn unwittingly into a deadly game.

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The report states that the series is being described as a ‘modern adaptation’ and an ‘elevated thriller’ that’s also a ‘reinvention’ of the horror franchise that launched in 2006 and spawned two sequels (with Part II released in 2007 and Part III in 2011).

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Eli Roth, who written and directed the first two Hostel films, who be directing and will also be co-writing the script with Chris Briggs. Roth, Briggs and Fleiss will also be executive producing the series. Meanwhile Paul Giamatti’s role is being kept under wraps, though it’s believed to be a key role.

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The project, which hails from Fifth Season, does not have a platform attached yet.