Machete Kills will be the second installment in what Robert Rodriguez is promising to be a trilogy for his Super Mexican and, he says, "will bigger and more ambitious than the first time." Sure - but could it possibly be more absurd?
The film is set to get rolling this April. According to Deadline, the new screenplay was "written by Kyle Ward, and developed by Rodriguez and Marcel Rodriguez," though they don't offer any indication on who will direct. The first installment was co-directed by Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, who has yet to make a second feature.
Rodriguez has alluded to the plot information of the Machete sequels several times over, even indicating that the character will be going to space, though I believe that's largely intended for the final threequel, Machete Kills Again. From the new details revealed, I think we can see why he'll be going there. Here's how Deadline put it:The new film finds Machete recruited by the U.S. Government for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man. Machete must battle his way through Mexico to take down a madman cartel leader and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war across the planet with a weapon in space. Machete takes on an army in an effort to dismantle a plan for global anarchy.
It's the promise of a Mexican setting that makes this appealing to me. Woven into all of the silliness, there was some kind of agenda at play in the first film, a fiddling with representations of Mexicans, and this will allow the sequel to build on that nicely.
Danny Trejo is currently negotiating his contract to return, and the survivors of the first film are "expected" to turn up again.
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Originally Posted by Joe Kalicki
