Machete is an upcoming feature by Robert Rodriguez. It is an expansion of a fake trailer Rodriguez directed for the 2007 film Grindhouse. It will star Danny Trejo as the title character. Although originally announced to be released direct-to-DVD as an extra on the Planet Terror DVD, the film is now being produced as a theatrical release.[1]
[edit] Production
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."[2] 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 blaxploitation but in America there wasn’t a mexploitation. Machete is definitely a mexploitation film."[2]
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.[2]
"Machete" marks the first starring role for Danny Trejo in his career.
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