Machete (film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article or section contains information about one or more scheduled or expected films. The content may change as the film's release approaches and more information becomes available. |  |
| Machete | |
|---|---|
 promotional poster for Machete |
|
| Directed by | Robert Rodriguez |
| Produced by | Robert Rodriguez |
| Written by | Robert Rodriguez |
| Starring | Danny Trejo Jeff Fahey |
| Distributed by | Dimension Films |
| Release date(s) | 2008 |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Machete is a spinoff film from the trailer that Robert Rodriguez wrote and directed for the Grindhouse movies that he and Quentin Tarantino made. It will star Danny Trejo and be released direct-to-DVD when the Grindhouse movies will also be released on DVD.[1]
At South by Southwest, Rodriguez announced that he would be expanding his trailer for Machete into a feature-length movie.[2] Rodriguez has said in a recent interview, "When I started doing the trailer and as soon as we started showing it to people they said we want to see this movie. Bob Weinstein even said that ‘I want to see that movie.’ So I thought we would probably make it then. If audiences respond to it the way I think they might then I think we’ll make it."[1] Tarantino has also said, "Robert pretty much has about 40 minutes of it anyway just from the trailers. True grind house I’ll give him 6 more days to finish it out. One of the things I love about it is well there is blacksploitation but in America there wasn’t a mexsploitation. Machete is definitely a mexsploitation film."[1]
According to Rodriguez, the origins of the film go back to Desperado. He says, "When I met Danny, I said, 'This guy should be like the Mexican Jean-Claude Van Damme or Charles Bronson, putting out a movie every year and his name should be Machete.' So I decided to do that way back when, never got around to it until finally now. So now, of course, I want to keep going and do a feature."[3] In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Rodriguez said that he wrote the screenplay back in 1993 when he cast Trejo in Desperado. "So I wrote him this idea of a federale from Mexico who gets hired to do hatchet jobs in the U.S. I had heard sometimes FBI or DEA have a really tough job that they don't want to get their own agents killed on, they'll hire an agent from Mexico to come do the job for $25,000. I thought, "That's Machete. He would come and do a really dangerous job for a lot of money to him but for everyone else over here it's peanuts." But I never got around to making it."[4]
Rodriguez hopes to film Machete at the same time he would be making Sin City 2.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Sciretta, Peter. "Rodriguez to film Machete Movie during Sin City 2", /film, March 26, 2007. Retrieved on March 27, 2007.
- ^ Sciretta, Peter. "Grindhouse: Rodriguez to turn They Call Him Machete into Feature Length Movie", /film, March 12, 2007. Retrieved on March 27, 2007.
- ^ Moro, Eric. "SXSW 07: Machete Movie Coming", IGN Film Force, March 11, 2007. Retrieved on March 27, 2007.
- ^ Edwards, Gavin. "Horror Film Directors Dish About Grindhouse Trailers", Rolling Stone, April 2007. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
[edit] External Links
- Machete at the Internet Movie Database
