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"Grindhouse's "Machete" to Get His Own Feature Film Even though the Tarantino/Rodriguez gorefest that is Grindhouse won't be out until next month, it appears we've already got some info on a straight-to-DVD spinoff. Anyone who saw the original teaser for Grindhouse was no doubt intrigued by a short clip concerning a character and film called Machete: "He knows the score. He gets the women. And he kills the bad guys." Machete, played by Danny Trejo (Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, and pretty much every other Rodriguez movie except El Mariachi), basically spends thirty seconds chopping up bad guys, making out with naked chicks, and flying through the air on a gatling-gun-equipped motorcycle. According to CinemaBlend, what started out as a mere fake trailer for Grindhouse is now going to become a straight-to-dvd solo flick. Evidently, this tidbit was released by Rodriguez himself, who spoke of it as if it was already a done deal. To be frank, the two most potentially awesome movies of the past month or so (300 and Hot Fuzz) were somewhat disappointing. It's up to Rodriguez and Tarantino's Grindhouse to make this a summer to remember – if we can get some DVD spinoffs from it, even better."

http://www.filmwad.com/grindhouse-s-machete-to-get-his-own-feature-film-1876-p.html


Oh and proof:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0985694/

[Edited on April 5, 2007 at 1:31 PM. Reason : ]

4/5/2007 1:28:57 PM

so wait...are people saying hot fuzz sucks?

that fucking sucks.

4/5/2007 2:13:35 PM

Just "somewhat disappointing"

4/5/2007 2:17:28 PM

I'm glad that the Mexi-CAN is gonna get his own film, but 300 was awesome.

4/5/2007 2:45:30 PM

haha. Danny Trejo has starred in plenty of films. He is my HERO.

4/5/2007 2:47:05 PM

bttt

4/7/2007 11:46:47 PM

"He gets all the women..."

4/9/2007 12:05:55 PM

Then I guess Hot Fuzz will be pretty kickass, since 300 was and he was disappointed by both.

4/9/2007 12:17:12 PM

At first I was like

But then I read this and I was like

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"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."

4/9/2007 12:18:34 PM

They'd call me Johnny 600 if they knew the truth

4/9/2007 2:34:50 PM

They fucked with the wrong mexican!

4/9/2007 2:56:43 PM

4/9/2007 3:17:11 PM

4/9/2007 3:18:22 PM

4/9/2007 3:19:50 PM

On Charles Manson:

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"I WAS with Charlie in county lockup once. Charlie’s crazy. See, let me tell you about cons. They have three different mindsets – intimidate, fantasize and manipulate. Well, Charlie wasn’t going to be intimidating anyone. He was a little dude. So he became a master manipulator. But people like me, we were the people who protected people like Charlie. I couldn’t be manipulated or intimidated. "

If you read the rest of the interview he sounds like the coolest, nicest guy ever:
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/feature/211

[Edited on April 9, 2007 at 3:23 PM. Reason : ]

4/9/2007 3:20:58 PM

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"Then I guess Hot Fuzz will be pretty kickass, since 300 was and he was disappointed by both."

4/9/2007 6:48:18 PM