Robert Rodriguez Talks ‘Machete’, ‘Sin City 2′

Robert Rodriguez, a filmmaker I have a lot of respect for but am becoming more and more disappointed in as he sinks more of his time into schlocky 3D kids movies, recently gave up a lot of details regarding plans for sequels to Machete, Sin City 2 and Spy Kids 4 while on the set of Nimrod Antal’s Predators in Texas.

Here’s a breakdown of the details, with some commentary:

Machete Sequels:

“We always talked about making him a franchise character. Danny and I talked about it in ‘94…maybe Desperado that’s when I first mentioned the Machete character. So imagine that…he’s been bugging me since ‘94.

We want Machete, Machete Kills, and Machete Kills Again. [Laughter] That’s mine and Robert’s standards, you know? Every time I text him, he’ll text me back, Machete 2, coming up. [Laughs]“

So there’s a solid “maybe.” I could personally deal with just having one Machete film, not having seen the first, obviously. He’s done the Grindhouse dance already — I’d like to see him move into more interesting territory.

Spy Kids 4:

“Well I know I owe The Weinsteins another movie and I’ve already turned in a script for Spy Kids, another Spy Kids, which is a reboot of Spy Kids. It’s different kids not the old kids and that one is really cool.

What I like about this Spy Kids it reminds me of the first one where is not so much just the kids in fact it leans more towards the parents because you become a parent, you get a lot of ideas on where you can put some of this, you really couldn’t put some of this stuff on a R rated movie that you want to put in a film…. The Weinsteins really wanted to do another one and I had an idea for one. I even went back and pilfered off my old original first script and found some ideas that I couldn’t bring to life back then I was like ‘Wow these are good ideas.’ So they get to finally come back up.

I’d probably do [Spy Kids] in the early part of next year, March or April, and then I do have something for later in the year. I can’t say what that one is though.”

I’ve never been a fan of the Spy Kids franchise, but this doesn’t seem like a good idea in general. A new set of kids? Didn’t we learn this lesson already when we swapped out Macauley Culkin on Home Alone 3?

And finally, Sin City 2:

“I can’t say no because I don’t know its no. I know Frank wants to do it, I know I wanna do it and its always a sort of ‘time permitting’ kind of thing but it’s not like I can tell you definitely we’re starting. It’s not my next picture, I know that. Doesn’t mean that its not the picture right after because that’s still a possibility.”

So there you have it: once again, the only film that Rodriguez is semi-committed to is another Spy Kids film, while his other properties languish. I’m of the opinion that he needs to get Nervewrackers off of the ground, or clean his slate and start fresh after the Spy Kids reboot. His talent seems to be going to waste.

Source: /Film

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