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.“