Update (04/01/08): JoBlo reports via a reader who attended the same event as Bloody Disgusting that Danny Trejo said that Robert Rodriguez may “start up again” on Machete as early as this month. More on this as/if it develops…
Gore hounds and knife show infomerical zombies, rejoice! In yet more machete-related news, Blood Disgusting ran into fanboy favorite Danny Trejo over the weekend and he gave the requisite Machete update. According to Mr. Trejo, not only is the first (and only?) Grindhouse spin-off movie still happening, but there’s been talk of a trilogy. Keeping in mind that the first pseudo-exploitation flick would go straight-to-DVD, three of them wouldn’t seem completely outside the realms of possibility/profitability. Can you imagine the stain a Machete box set would leave on your coffee table?
He didn’t elaborate much more, but did say that Robert Rodriguez will direct the first film as well as produce, hopefully once he finishes up an unspecified project. If you’re wondering what Machete would be about, stare hard at the image above and squirt ketchup all over your screen. As much as I loathed Once Upon a Time in Mexico and was dumbfounded by the can’t-walk-the-talk dilemma that was Planet Terror, it would be great to see Rodriguez jam econo on three low budget action films in the spirit of a seedier, more nihilistic El Marachi. More on Machete if it ever develops…
Discuss: Machete Triple Feature? Could you handle it?
March 31st, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Danny Trejoe is kind of like the Mexican version of John C. Riley.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Trejo rules :)
March 31st, 2008 at 3:20 pm
@ Antibodies
I don’t see it. More of a Mexican Lee Marvin or, uh, an American Danny Trejo.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
“They just fuck with the wrong Mexican.” lol!
March 31st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Dope!
Trejo is the man, and really cool. I met him once at a Christmas party in Taos, NM. He’s real humble and a huge film fan in general. Some of my friends were talking about how he’s been a lot of great movies.
I sort of liked Once Upon a Time… Not as good as Desperado (as good as you thought that one was) but definitely entertaining. Planet Terror was what it set out to be, a crappy B-Zombie movie. Needless to say, I was satisfied as well.
Machete! i can’t wait
March 31st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
If there is any justice this will be made!
March 31st, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I have to say, the trailers for Grindhouse were one of the best parts about it all. Machete was a great watch and I’d love to this come to life rather than it just be a rumour stuck in dev. hell as it is at the moment.
Also as the article highlights - Direct to Video (or DTV) titles are cheap to make and end up with a high chance of profitability so I’d like for the first time to be interested in a DTV title!
March 31st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Why do people still think about El Mariachi, it was a movie done with a budget of two dollars and more than 10 years ago. Rodriguez has to change his style and bring new things to the table, if he was still doing what he did on the mariachi he wouldn’t be were he is now.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
This is the most promising I’ve heard or seen in a long time.
March 31st, 2008 at 4:31 pm
yummy
March 31st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
As much as I enjoyed Grindhouse (particularly Death Proof) the fact of the mater is that pastiche and remakes of bad films still add up to bad films.
A Machete trilogy sounds like three times too much Machete. It made an amusing trailer but I just can’t imagine sitting through another tongue-in-cheek schlockfest like Planet Terror, let alone a trilogy.
Let’s start making ORIGINAL films again guys…by all means take aesthetic and stylistic cues from the past but this is whole “Grindhouse universe” thing really just masturbation.
March 31st, 2008 at 4:47 pm
DANNY TREJO RIFA COMPAS!!!
we want a machete trilogy NOW!!! :{
March 31st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
* plays the Ballad of Danny Trejo
March 31st, 2008 at 5:50 pm
if this goes threw it will be epicly awesome. if they can make superhero movie and a bunch of shitty spoof movies they can find the money for this.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Are you telling me that a Mexican day laborer ia God damned Federali?!
March 31st, 2008 at 8:07 pm
The best scene in possibly movie history takes place in Once Upon A Time..
Fucking Jonny Depp walking into the kitchen and shooting the cook that made his dinner in the face, because it was just too damn good. I laughed for an hour after that.
March 31st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
@M&Co
…but this is whole “Grindhouse universe†thing really just masturbation.
Thumb approves of this type of masturbation.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:32 am
Caught the first half of GRINDHOUSE on Starz HD last night and the MACHETE trailer still rocks my world. Yes, it’d be nice to see Rodriguez get back to the drawing board with something new, but given the choice of his once-proposed BARBARELLA remake and a New World-inspired MACHETE flick I know what *I’m* most interested in!
April 1st, 2008 at 7:52 am
@ M&Co
Perhaps you’ll reconsider comparing a “Grindhouse universe” to something less awesome like parking tickets or eating nacho cheese out of Robin Williams’ chest hair.
Because masturbation is prertty cool.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:54 am
My hilarious comment has been plagued by typos.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:47 pm
@ April:
eating nacho cheese out of Robin Williams’ chest hair.
Hooooooooly shit that’s some funny shit right there. Shit!