Machete

[The_Return]

I'd be inclined to agree with Fugly...Lohan and Alba both seem like odd casting choices, but it's Rodriguez - he knows what he's doing.

Plus the fact that we're going to have Cheech, De Niro, Seagal and Trejo in the same movie? Fuck man...I don't give two shits that we've got a couple of seemingly talentless celebs hanging around, that's STILL the most badass cast I've heard in a long while (barring The Expendables, of course).

[Elvis_Christ]

I really happy Trejo is getting a big leading role. The dude's been due that for a long time.

[Neimad]

With a cast like that this movie should kick all kinds of ass.

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Elise and Electra Avellan aka "The Crazy Babysitter Twins" from Grindhouse have been added to the ever growing cast of Robert Rodriguez's Machete. This time they will be known as "The Sexy Nurses" - perhaps the idea was inspired by their Maxim shoot where they were dressed up as sexy nurses.

The twins will be appearing at Spooky Empire in Orlando Florida with "Machete" co-star Danny Trejo on October 9-11, 2009. There will be a special midnight screening on Saturday night of the twin's new film The Black Waters of Echo's Pond at the event.

The twins star alongside Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Jeff Fahey in the Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis co-directed film.

Machete is a Mexican ex-Federale with a gift for wielding a blade who hides out as a day laborer, and things become ugly when he is double-crossed by a corrupt state senator.

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“Machete is a Mexican ex-Federale with a gift for wielding a blade, who hides out as a day laborer, and who is double-crossed by a corrupt state senator. The feature version of the trailer finds Machete (Trejo) a renegade former Mexican Federale, roaming the streets of Texas after a shakedown from drug lord Torrez (Seagal). Reluctantly, Machete takes an offer from spin doctor Benz (Fahey) to assassinate McLaughlin (De Niro) a corrupt Senator. Double crossed and on the run Machete braves the odds with the help of Luz (Rodriguez), a saucy taco slinger, Padre (Marin) his “holy” brother, and April (Lohan) a socialite with a penchant for guns. All while being tracked by Sartana (Alba), a sexy ICE agent with a special interest in the blade slinger.”

[hitman3005]

According to IMDB, you can also include Rose McGowan and Shea Whigham (Dennis, the escaped convict, from Splinter).

[Ferox13]

Is that Tom Savini in the poster?

[hitman3005]

Yep! That's him.

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It’s been a long time coming for Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo’s Machete, first glimpsed as a faux trailer in movie double-whammy Grindhouse.

But only know, mere months before its Stateside release in April, are we learning just how far back Rodriguez’s plans for a Trejo-starring mash-up stretch.

Speaking to IGN during a Predators set visit, Trejo revealed that Machete is actually very much a child of the ‘90s.

“Everybody thinks that Machete came out of a trailer, but it didn't,” Trejo stated. “Robert told me that he wanted to do this movie called Machete when we were doing Desperado. If you look at the character in Machete, it is a metamorphosis. He kind of moulded this character of Machete.

“I think it's gonna be one of his best. And I'm not just saying that ’cause I'm the lead; it's just a great movie. I think everybody's gonna walk away from that movie with some opinion!”

And now that he’s finally been able to shrug on those killer leathers, Trejo’s definitely not going to let the character go easy. “We want Machete, Machete Kills, and Machete Kills Again,” he says. “That's mine and Robert's standards, you know? Every time I text him, he'll text me back, 'Machete 2, coming up!'”

Rodriguez, meanwhile, confirmed that editing on the film is taking place right now, while he is penning the film’s score. “It's going really terrific. It looks really great.”

As for Sin City 2? Don’t expect it any time soon. “We still talk about doing that as early as later next year, but I haven’t gotten into that yet,” admits Rodriguez. “I know Frank [Miller] wants to do it, I know I wanna do it and its always sort of time permitting.”

[fuglystick]

I am becoming impatient. Petulance is the next stage.