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‘Machete Kills Again… In Space’ Shooting This Year?
Robert Rodriguez regular Danny Trejo was on hand signing autographs at the Mad Monster convention in Charlotte, NC this past weekend were he revealed to HalloweenDailyNews that filming begins later this year on Machete Kills Again…In Space.
“Robert and I are going to start to do Machete Kills In Space, so that’s going to be awesome. Absolutely. We’re going to be working on it this year,” he tells the site.
Machete Kills Again…In Space is the third in a trilogy that started with the faux trailer included in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 Grindhouse. By 2010 he had a feature-length Machete (co-directed by Ethan Maniquis) in theaters, followed up by the terrible 2013 Machete Kills.
After the disaster that was Machete Kills, it’s sort of surprising that Rodriguez is able to get the third off the ground. And even though I don’t like either of the Machete films, the new one looks ridiculous enough to get me into a theater. I just wish Rodriguez would stop with the CGI blood that he does so poorly.
In the first Machete, “After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.“
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‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Is No Fan of Generative AI: “Defeats the Purpose Entirely for Me”
There has been a lot of talk recently about filmmakers embracing generative AI as part of the filmmaking process, from Darren Aronofsky to Martin Scorsese. But what about filmmakers that are against the use of Gen AI for creative pursuits? You can count 20-year-old Backrooms director Kane Parsons among that group, which should give you some hope for the future.
In a new chat with The Australian, the self-taught young filmmaker makes it crystal clear that he won’t be using generative AI in any of his upcoming filmmaking projects.
“I think I’m in the same boat as most well-adjusted people,” Parsons tells the outlet. “If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would. Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me.”
“What interests me more is interrogating it artistically,” Parsons notes. “We already live in a world where you walk outside and there are billboards and signs that are obvious AI slop. That’s become part of our visual reality. To me, generative AI feels less like innovation than a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot.”
He explains, “I’m interested in using that iconography in art – not using AI to make the art itself, but examining what it represents. I definitely want to explore it further in future projects.”
Kane Parsons also notes during the interview with The Australian, “… there’s so much at stake and so many genuinely harmful consequences already happening.”
Backrooms marks young prodigy Kane Parsons’ feature directorial debut, and it’s based on his own series of YouTube videos that were brought to life using Blender, the open-source 3D computer graphics software suite. So it’s no surprise that Parsons, who has hand-made his filmmaking career up to this point, isn’t buying into the hoopla around Generative AI.
His debut feature is the #1 movie in the world, so perhaps he’s onto something.
What’s next from Kane Parsons, you ask? Stay tuned…
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