Robert Rodriguez Says He and Danny Trejo Have to Do MACHETE KILLS AGAIN... IN SPACE to Satisfy the Fans
The Machete film franchise was born from a fake 1970s-style grindhouse trailer that was included in the 2007 double feature film Grindhouse. Danny Trejo played the title character in the exploitation-style movie, which followed the vengeful Mexican mercenary on a mission of bloody revenge.
The first Machete movie was released in 2010, and in it, after being set up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, Machete, an ex-Federale, launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
That was followed by a sequel in 2013 titled Machete Kills, and that movie came with another fake trailer for Machete Kills Again… In Space, and that’s a film that fans still want to see get made someday! Trejo is 78 years old, and he also wants to make the movie. When he goes out to make public appearances, he asks his fans if they are still interested in that movie happening, and it seems like they are!
During a recent interview with Deadline, director Robert Rodriguez was asked about a possible Machete Kills Again… In Space movie and he explained that they have to do another movie to satisfy the fans:
"Danny calls me all the time. He films the whole audience that he's speaking to, and they're all saying 'Machete in Space!' And then he turns the phone around and looks at me and goes [Rodriguez mugs]. That's why I put a fake trailer for that on "Machete 2." To kind of satisfy you. 'Okay, this is pretty much what it would look like, but you can see it in two minutes rather than in two hours.' And it never satisfies them. It never satisfies them. So we have to do one."
Rodriguez went on to admit that he originally never intended to make Machete a feature film, but it was the big fan reaction that drove him to make it. He explained:
"They would bug us for five years: 'When's that movie coming out?' I said it was a fake trailer. 'No! But it looked real! When is it coming out?' So, we gotta make it for 'em. So five years later I made that movie. It wasn't meant to be a film. The audience just wanted it. So we have to give it to them. Because when someone wants something that bad ... I've never had that with any movie before. And now, everyone is still 'Machete in Space!' You can't give 'em enough!"
So, it seems like it’s just a matter of time before Rodriguez and Trejo team back up to make Machete in Space, and if they do, I’m sure it will be more ridiculously crazy than the first two. Do you all want to see a Machete in Space movie!?