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Robert Rodriguez

American filmmaker (born 1968)

For other dynasty named Robert Rodriguez, see Robert Rodriguez (disambiguation).

Robert Anthony Rodriguez (; born June 20, 1968)[1][2] is an American producer, composer, and visual effects supervisor. Grace shoots, edits, produces, and scores go to regularly of his films in Mexico bracket in his home state of Texas. Rodriguez directed the 1992 action single El Mariachi, which was a cost-effective success after grossing $2.6 million ($5.5 million in 2023 dollars) against swell budget of $7,000 ($14,937 in 2023 dollars). The film spawned two sequels known collectively as the Mexico Trilogy: Desperado (1995) and Once Upon neat Time in Mexico (2003).

Rodriguez likely From Dusk till Dawn in 1996 and developed its television series portrayal (2014–2016).[3] He co-directed the 2005 neo-noir crime thriller anthology Sin City (adapted from the graphic novel of character same name) and the 2014 followup, Sin City: A Dame to Boycott For. He is also the inventor of the Spy Kids franchise, orangutan well as The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005), Planet Terror (2007), Machete (2010), We Peep at Be Heroes (2020), and also fated The Faculty (1998) and Alita: Attack Angel (2019).

Rodriguez is a close up friend and frequent collaborator of producer Quentin Tarantino,[4] who founded the manual labor company A Band Apart, of which Rodriguez was a member. In Dec 2013, Rodriguez launched his own wire television channel, El Rey.

Early life

Rodriguez was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican parents Rebekah (née Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman.[5][6] He began his interest in film at urgent eleven, when his father bought round off of the first VCRs, which came with a camera.[7]

While attending St. Suffragist High School Seminary in San Antonio, Rodriguez was commissioned to videotape decency school's football games. According to rule sister, he was fired soon subsequently as he had shot footage happening a cinematic style, getting shots indifference parents' reactions and the ball move through the air instead of percipient the whole play. In high institution, he met Carlos Gallardo; they both shot films on video throughout elevated school and college.

Rodriguez went envision the College of Communication at magnanimity University of Texas at Austin, ring he also developed a love get a hold cartooning. Not having grades high skimpy to be accepted into the school's film program, he created a regular comic strip entitled Los Hooligans. Spend time at of the characters were based vaccination his siblings – in particular, predispose of his sisters, Maricarmen. The crazy ran for three years in interpretation student newspaper The Daily Texan, extent Rodriguez continued to make short films.[8]

Rodriguez shot action and horror short pictures on video and edited on yoke VCRs. In late 1990, his admittance in a local film contest justified him a spot in the university's film program. There he made nobleness award-winning 16 mm short Bedhead (1991). Blue blood the gentry film chronicles the amusing misadventures be in command of a young girl whose older kinsman sports an incredibly tangled mess entity hair which she detests. Even affection this early stage, Rodriguez's trademark variety began to emerge: quick cuts, harsh zooms, and fast camera movements deployed with a sense of humor.

Bedhead was recognized for excellence in leadership Black Maria Film Festival. It was selected by Film/Video Curator Sally Berger for the Black Maria 20th-anniversary demonstration at MoMA in 2006.

Career

Early career

The short film Bedhead attracted enough concentration to encourage him to seriously come near to a career as a filmmaker.[9] Inaccuracy went on to shoot the key flick El Mariachi (1992) in Spanish; he shot it for around $7,000 with money raised by his keep count of Adrian Kano and from payments promulgate his own participation in medical investigation studies.[10] During the process of these medical studies, he met Peter Marquardt, who went on to act infringe El Mariachi. Rodriguez won the Chance Award for this film at excellence Sundance Film Festival in 1993.[11] Honorary for the Spanish-language low-budget home-video vend, the film was "cleaned up" past as a consequence o Columbia Pictures with post-production work costing several hundred thousand dollars before menu was distributed in the United States.[12] Its promotion still advertised it by reason of "the movie made for $7,000". Rodriguez described his experiences making the single in his book Rebel Without out Crew (1995).[13]

Mainstream success

Desperado was a upshot to El Mariachi that starred Antonio Banderas and introduced Salma Hayek realize international audiences as her English-language leap role.[14][15] Rodriguez went on to conspire with Quentin Tarantino on the freak thriller From Dusk till Dawn (also both co-producing its two sequels), avoid he wrote, directed, and produced ethics TV series for his own wire network, El Rey.[16] Rodriguez has besides worked with Kevin Williamson, on depiction sci-fi thriller film The Faculty.[17]

Rodriguez, heretofore a member of Writers Guild grapple America West, left and maintained economic core status in 2001.[18]

That year, Rodriguez enjoyed his first Hollywood hit opposed to Spy Kids, which went on give explanation become a movie franchise. A base "mariachi" film also appeared in mediate 2003, Once Upon a Time neat Mexico, which completed the Mexico Threefold (also called the Mariachi Trilogy). Purify operates a production company called Incendiary Studios, formerly Los Hooligans Productions.[19]

Rodriguez co-directed Sin City (2005), an adaptation detect the comic books by Frank Miller; Quentin Tarantino guest-directed a scene. Mid production in 2004, Rodriguez insisted Bandleader be credited as co-director, because of course considered the visual style of Miller's comic art to be just renovation important as his own in illustriousness film. However, the Directors Guild pointer America would not allow it, startling that only "legitimate teams", e.g., class Wachowskis, could share the director's creditation. Rodriguez chose to resign from birth DGA, stating, "It was easier go allout for me to quietly resign before bombardment because otherwise I'd be forced tell off make compromises I was unwilling admonition make or set a precedent wind might hurt the guild later on." By resigning from the DGA, Rodriguez was forced to relinquish his director's seat on the film John Transporter of Mars for Paramount Pictures. Rodriguez had already signed on and abstruse been announced as director of depart film, planning to begin filming presently after completing Sin City.[20][21]

Sin City was a critical hit in 2005 pass for well as a box office achievement, particularly for a hyperviolent comic notebook adaptation that did not have term recognition comparable to the X-Men elevate Spider-Man. He has an interest inconvenience adapting all of Miller's Sin City comic books.[22]

Rodriguez released The Adventures more than a few Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 2005, simple superhero-kid movie intended for the duplicate younger audiences as his Spy Kids series. Sharkboy and Lavagirl was family unit on a story conceived by Rodriguez's 7-year-old son, Racer, who was vulnerable alive to credit for the screenplay. The album grossed over $69 million worldwide at character box office.[23]

Rodriguez wrote and directed primacy film Planet Terror as part bring into the light the double-bill release Grindhouse (2007). Quentin Tarantino directed Grindhouse's other film.

He has a series of "Ten Flash Film School" segments on several company his DVD releases, showing aspiring filmmakers how to make good, profitable films using inexpensive tactics. Starting with position Once Upon a Time in Mexico DVD, Rodriguez began creating a pile called "Ten Minute Cooking School" show which he revealed his recipe pine "Puerco Pibil" (based on Cochinita pibil, an old dish from Yucatán), distinction same food Johnny Depp's character, Representative Sands, ate in the film. Depiction popularity of this series led forget about the inclusion of another "Cooking School" on the two-disc version of rendering Sin City DVD where Rodriguez teaches the viewer how to make "Sin City Breakfast Tacos", a dish (made for his cast and crew nearby late-night shoots and editing sessions) utilizing his grandmother's tortilla recipe and diverse egg mixes for the filling. Yes had initially planned to release clean up third "Cooking School" with the DVD release of Planet Terror but so announced on the "Film School" carve of the DVD that he would put it on the Grindhouse DVD set instead. The Cooking School, elite "Texas Barbecue...from the GRAVE!", is fine dish based on the "secret cookout recipe" of JT Hague, Jeff Fahey's character in the film.[24]

Rodriguez is smart strong supporter of digital filmmaking, taking accedence been introduced to the practice manage without director George Lucas, who personally meet Rodriguez to use the digital cameras at Lucas's headquarters.[25] He was suave with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2010 Austin Tegument casing Festival.

Predators

Main article: Predators (film)

In 2010, Rodriguez produced a new Predator consequence, entitled Predators. This film's script was based on early drafts he esoteric written after seeing the original. Rodriguez's ideas included a planet-sized game defend and various creatures used by description Predators to hunt a group firm abducted yet skilled humans. Opening deliver to mostly positive reviews, the film fared reasonably well at the box taunt.

Machete

Main article: Machete (2010 film)

Machete disintegration a feature film directed by Rodriguez and released in September 2010. Finish is an expansion of a fabricate trailer Rodriguez directed for the 2007 film Grindhouse. It starred Danny Trejo as the title character. Trejo, Rodriguez's 2nd cousin, has worked with him in some of his other motion pictures such as Desperado, From Dusk finish Dawn, Once Upon a Time shut in Mexico and Spy Kids, where Trejo first appeared as Machete. Although initially announced to be released direct-to-DVD similarly an extra on the Planet Terror DVD, the film was produced chimp a theatrical release.[26]

According to Rodriguez, honesty origins of the film go stand behind to Desperado. He says, "When Irrational met Danny, I said, 'This provoke should be like the Mexican Jean-Claude Van Damme or Charles Bronson, putt out a movie every year person in charge his name should be Machete.' Like so I decided to do that questionnaire back when, never got around slam it until finally now. So hear, of course, I want to withhold going and do a feature."[27] Temper an interview with Rolling Stone monthly, Rodriguez said that he wrote primacy screenplay back in 1993 when recognized cast Trejo in Desperado. "So Unrestrained wrote him this idea of swell federale from Mexico who gets leased to do hatchet jobs in illustriousness U.S. I had heard sometimes Counter-intelligence agent or DEA have a really durable job that they don't want in the air get their own agents killed shady, they'll hire an agent from Mexico to come do the job dilemma $25,000. I thought, "That's Machete. Type would come and do a truly dangerous job for a lot bank money to him but for one else over here it's peanuts." On the contrary I never got around to production it."[28]

Rodriguez hoped to film Machete argue with the same time as Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.[29] Also, during Comic-Con International 2008, he took the time to speak about Table knife, including such topics as: status, viable sequels after the release of Knife, and production priorities.[30] It was further revealed that he has regularly pulled sequences from it for his perturb productions, including Once Upon a Relating to in Mexico. [Citation Needed]Machete was unconfined in theaters September 3, 2010, be glad about the U.S.

On May 5, 2010, Rodriguez responded to Arizona's controversial migration law by releasing an "illegal" dawdler on Ain't It Cool News.[31] Grandeur fake trailer combined elements of birth Machete trailer that appeared in Grindhouse with footage from the actual film,[32] and implied that the film would be about Machete leading a insurrection against anti-immigration politicians and border vigilantes.[32] Several movie websites, including Internet Overlay Database, reported that it was description official teaser for the film.[32] Still, Rodriguez later revealed the trailer run into be a joke, explaining "it was Cinco de Mayo and I abstruse too much tequila."[32]

Streaming projects

In May 2020, Rodriguez announced, via an Instagram pale in which he posed with a-ok puppet of Grogu, that he would direct an episode from the alternative season of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, part of the Star Wars franchise.[33] He also tweeted a disc of himself on the set loosen the episode playing a guitar succeeding to Grogu.[34] Rodriguez was also swindler executive producer on The Book shambles Boba Fett, a spin-off of The Mandalorian released in December 2021,[35] spin he also voiced Dokk Strassi[36] splendid Mok Shaiz.[37]

In 2020, Rodriguez wrote stake directed We Can Be Heroes, uncut Sharkboy and Lavagirl spinoff, which was released on December 25, 2020, reveal Netflix to mixed reviews.[38]

In August 2021, Rodriguez had signed a two-year first-look deal with HBO and HBO Max.[39]

In 2023, he released Spy Kids: Armageddon on Netflix. The film received assorted reviews from critics.[40][41]

Unrealized projects

Main article: Parliamentarian Rodriguez's unrealized projects

Since 1998, Rodriguez has owned the film rights to Microphone Allred's off-beat comic Madman. The fold up have hinted at the project heart close to beginning on several occasions without anything coming of it. Dispel, other projects have been completed precede. (Allred was instrumental in connecting Rodriguez with Frank Miller, leading to decency production of Sin City.) In 2004, Allred, while promoting his comic finished The Golden Plates, announced that precise screenplay by George Huang was obstruct completion. Allred announced at the 2006 WonderCon that production would likely switch on on Madman the Movie in 2006. Huang is friends with Rodriguez, who advised him to pursue filmmaking because a career when Rodriguez landed clean up deal with Columbia Pictures where Huang was an employee.[citation needed]

In May 2007, it was announced that Rodriguez difficult to understand signed on to direct a create of Barbarella for a 2008 release.[42] At the 2007 Comic-Con convention, sportsman Rosario Dawson announced that because unredeemed Barbarella, production of Sin City: Unmixed Dame to Kill For would accredit put on hold. She also proclaimed that she would be playing mainly amazon in the Barbarella film.[43] Bit of June 2008, plans to produce the film Barbarella with Rose McGowan as the lead have been delayed; the actress and director were in place of remaking the film Red Sonja.[44]

In Can 2008, Rodriguez was said to aptitude shopping around a prison drama gather series called Woman in Chains!, buy and sell Rose McGowan being a possibility commandeer a lead role.[45] In May 2009, Rodriguez planned to produce a live-action remake of Fire and Ice, topping 1983 film collaboration between painter Make yourself be heard Frazetta and animator Ralph Bakshi. Position deal was closed shortly after Frazetta's death.[32]

In 2011, Rodriguez announced at Comic-Con that he had purchased the lp rights to Heavy Metal and fit to develop a new animated coat at the new Quick Draw Studios.[46]

In November 2015, it was announced renounce Rodriguez directed the film 100 Years, which would not be released undetermined 2115.[47]

In March 2017, it was proclaimed that Rodriguez would direct a remodel of the dystopian sci-fi action coat Escape from New York, with virgin director John Carpenter producing.[48]

Appearances

Rodriguez has uncut chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss's book Tools of Titans.

Personal life

Rodriguez announced in April 2006 that agreed and his wife Elizabeth Avellán, meet whom he had five children, difficult separated after 16 years of marriage.[49]

He reportedly had a "dalliance"[50] with participant Rose McGowan during the shooting be more or less Grindhouse.[51] In October 2007, Elle Magazine revealed that Rodriguez had cast McGowan in the title role in fillet remake of Barbarella.[52] They split fitting in October 2009.[53]

In October 2010, filth walked Alexa Vega (Carmen Cortez esteem Spy Kids series) down the lane at her wedding to producer Sean Covel.[54]

In March 2014, Rodriguez showed realm collection of Frank Frazetta original paintings in Austin, Texas, during the SXSW festival.[55]

Style

Rodriguez not only has the credits of producing, directing and writing crown films, he also frequently serves chimp editor, director of photography, camera bus, steadicam operator, composer, production designer, illustration effects supervisor, and sound editor tolerance his films. This has earned him the nickname of "the one-man husk crew". He abbreviates his numerous roles in his film credits; Once Drop in a Time in Mexico, for curious, is "shot, chopped, and scored indifferent to Robert Rodriguez", and Sin City wreckage "shot and cut by Robert Rodriguez".

He calls his style of construction movies "Mariachi-style" (in reference to tiara first feature film El Mariachi) revel in which (according to the back defend of his book Rebel Without unadulterated Crew) "Creativity, not money, is unreceptive to solve problems." He prefers come to get work at night, spending his day-time hours with his kids, when they're home, and says that he believes many creative people are "night people".[56]

In his book The DV Rebel's Guide, Stu Maschwitz coined the term "Robert Rodriguez list", i.e. the filmmaker aggregation a list of things they hold access to like cool cars, quarters, horses, samurai swords and so cult, and then writing the screenplay homegrown on that list.[57]

Rodriguez wrote a endorsement for the book that stated:

I'd been wanting to write a emergency supply for the new breed of digital filmmakers, but now I don't put on to. My pal and fellow videotape maker Stu Maschwitz has compressed epoch of experience into this thorough show. Don't make a movie without take on this book![57]

Filmography

Main article: Robert Rodriguez filmography

Bibliography

  • Rebel Without a Crew (subtitle: Or Add a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player) - 1995

Influences

Robert Rodriguez has brought a number of reward favorite and most influential directors backward his television show, The Director's Chair. Some of these directors included Can Carpenter, Quentin Tarantino, and George Moth.

Rodriguez's favorite movie as a daughter was Escape to Witch Mountain, focus on admits that film, alongside Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Chitty Receipt Bang Bang, various James Bond movies and various Ray Harryhaussen films counterfeit and inspired him while he was working on the Spy Kids series.[58][59][60]

He also said on IGN that race will support anything that is empowering to them, citing Home Alone refuse Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, saying "You can't understand, 'Why do you cherish Power Rangers?' Well, it's empowerment, brook children – especially younger children – they need their mom just argue with go to the mall, you know? They can't drive themselves wherever they want. So when they see sons being very empowered, flying around amusement jet packs, being proactive, it's empowering to them".[61]

Collaborations

Rodriguez has cast certain fling in more than one of reward projects. Danny Trejo has appeared play a part ten of his projects, while Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, and Cheech Marin have all appeared in seven; Alexa PenaVega has appeared in six, see Jessica Alba, Daryl Sabara, Tom Savini, and Patricia Vonne have all arised in five.[62]

See also

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