You may have heard that there’s money to be made in pointless sequels to classic movies. That’s the idea behind Predator: The Sequel, which is currently filming here in Austin, Texas. Although the movie will feature the classic, be-dreaded alien, the story looks to be much different than the original. For one, the roughnecks you see in the picture above won’t be there. The movie stars Adrian Brody, Topher Grace, and Walt Goggins. Apparently, the three play brothers who’s father has just died. They embark on a voyage of self-discovery on a train through India, and, on the way, learn something about each other, and themselves, and each other. Also, the movie is called The Darjeeling Limited.

Robert Rodriguez has done some great stuff in the past, so who knows, maybe Predators will be great too. But, after the news that he was turning his faux trailer for Machete into a full-length feature, I’m wonder if he’s just looking for excuses to cut stuff up.

Topher Grace and Adrien Brody have been confirmed for the lead roles in Robert Rodriquez’ remake of 1987’s “Predator”.  Although Grace and Brody are no Schwarzenegger, I trust that Rodriguez knows what he is doing.  He must have something interesting in the works, because Grace and Brody are really delicate men.  After recent movies like “Planet Terror” and “Sin City”, I am excited to see what Rodriguez will do with this remake.

Look forward to Rodriguez’ “Machete” to tide you over until July 7th when “Predator” is set to be released.

Tis the season…for a Little Black Dress.

Every fashionista will attest, black is back.  (Which bodes well for me, since I have to wear black every day for work).  I think it’s safe to say that every woman owns a Little Black Dress.  It’s one of those items that’s a foundation of a good wardrobe.

That said — if it’s so ordinary for everyone to own a Little Black Dress, how do you ensure that YOUR Little Black Dress is EXTRAordinary?

Enter Violet Moon Gaynor, Senior Fashion & Accessories Editor at Elle.com.

See, Mz. Gaynor has collaborated with Rue La La to hand-pick 16 EXTRAordinary Little Black Dresses from 4 EXTRAordinary designers:

• Badgley Mischka
• Carmen Marc Valvo
• Laundry
• Robert Rodriguez  (P.S.  I think his stuff is EXTRA extraordinary)
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So no need to wonder if your LBD is “extra” when it already comes Elle.com-endorsed!

I feel a bit car salesman-y when I say this, but: you gotta act fast, b/c this selection is only up for 48-hours!!!  (true story!)

WHAT:     Exclusive ELLE Little Black Dress Boutique

WHEN:     Monday, November 23 at 11AM.  Available for 48 hours ONLY!

WHERE:     RueLaLa.com

HOW:     Shop chic selections at 30-80% off retail!

After buying yards of Scotch tape, piles of gift tags, and several pounds of wrapping paper there’s still one left on the top of every fashionista’s mind during the holidays…

“WHAT AM I WEARING?”

Holiday parties come a dime a dozen and if you run within a tight-knit group of friends, chances are you might be seeing them more than once this season.  While winter happens to be the most hectic time for us all, it still doesn’t mean you’re allowed to slack off when it comes to your fashion sense.  Since I’ll be focused on gifts and whatnot, I’m going with the safe yet chic option of… the LBD (Little Black Dress).  Easy enough to pull off for any party and oh-so-easy to dress up or down, there’s really no going wrong with black – especially when you’re pressed for time!

Now I happen to have 2 go-to LBDs in my closet but I don’t think you can really have too many.  With all the different cuts, patterns, or materials; there’s probably an LBD in over a million different variations.  I don’t need a million but I do need a few more and one of my favorite shopping sites is here to save the day.

Rue La La is a member’s only shopping community that brings the sickest labels to you at even sicker prices!  That’s why I was so excited to share the news of their ELLE Little Black Dress Boutique that’s set to open Monday, November 23 at 11AM.  Violet Moon Gaynor, Sr. Fashion & Accessories Editor at Elle.com, hooked up with Rue La La to pick out a gorgeous selection of 16 make-you-drool designers and their in demand LBDs.

Be warned, this sale is only going to be available for 48 hours so be ready (mark your calendars!) to shop labels like Badgley Mischka, Laundry, Carmen Marc Valvo, Robert Rodriguez… at up to 80% OFF retail!

If you’re not a Rue La La member, please take this invitation as my gift to you!  Trust me, it will become your newest addiction!

Enjoy!

Nimrod Antal is the director of Armored, the heist thriller starring Laurence Fishburne and Matt Dillon. Antal is also the bloke that Robert Rodriguez picked to direct the Predators film so here is a chance to see what his style is all about.

This week I completed half of my Christmas shopping on eBay! I am so tempted to post what I got, but that would ruin the surprise for my friends an family who check the blog. If you haven’t started shopping yet and you have some tough people to shop for, I suggest you start now! You can find high-quality stuff for really good prices on eBay right now. But as you might imagine, when it gets closer to the holidays, tons of people will be bidding on eBay driving the prices way up. So shop now! Here’s more stuff I wish I were buying:

This pair of Miu Miu shoes has to be in my top 5 favorite shoes on eBay ever, and I am so jealous of all you girls who wear a 7.5, because this one is for you. $202 ending soon!

Balenciaga Top. Retailed for $495. Currently $119, 6 days left.

Everyone likes Stella & Dot jewelry, right? I considered buying this necklace for my mom. The retail is $300 but it’s on eBay now at $68, ending tonight. Awesome.

Robert Rodriguez Pants. Only $12 with 2 days left.

Stella & Dot earrings. $35.11 ending tonight.

A 70’s patchwork cardigan that reminds me of a road trip through northern California. $36 with just over a day remaining.

Alexander Wang Blazer. Another bargain at $56 with 1 day left.

Rachel Roy chain belt. $35 with 2 days to go.

A super chic Lela Rose dress. I love anything chartreuse. $169 with 2 days left.

Vintage Fiorelli purse, only $3.50, ending soon! I can’t help it, I still love 80’s pastels.

Miss Albright Shoes. $35 ending soon!

This Daryl K dress is cute and edgy, and a steal at $49. Ending soon!

Rachel Roy Shorts. $34.99 with 5 days left.

Miu Miu skirt. $99 with 1 day remaining.

Vintage Cape. Only $22.76 with a day and half to go!

An unsual Derek Lam dress. $49 with less than 3 days to go.

Miu Miu shoes, $199 with no bidders yet. 3 and half days left.

Another amazing Miu Miu pair with chunky jewels on the heel. $199 with 6 days left, no bidders yet.

Dolce & Gabbana. Cropped. Holographic. And less than $10 with a day remaining.

Miu Miu Handbag. Currently $157.50 with 3 days remaining. Gorgeous!

I’m really loving this cute Abaete cardigan. Only $9.49 with a day and half left.

Another cool Hussein Chalayan top. $70, ending soon.

A Marc Jacobs dress for the boldly stylish girl. A bargain at $69 ending tonight.

Alexander McQueen shoes. Retailed for $1070. Currently only $61 with 2 days left. Insanity.

Alexander Wang hook & eye skirt. $64 with a day to go.

LaRok Coat. Retail was $328. Currently $32.80 with 1 day left. Steal.

A lovely maxi dress by Ali Ro. Only $6.50 with a day left. Ridiculous steal!

Yaya Aflalo Khaki Jacket. Retailed for $575. Currently $49 with 3 and half days to go.

Alice McCall “True Reasonchild” Dress. Hotness. Currently less than $12 with about 4 days left.

2 Derek Lam pairs. Purple, $31 with under 2 days remaining. Gray, priced buy-it-now at $89.

Un film del 2010, regia di Robert Rodriguez, con Danny Trejo / Jessica Alba / Lindsay Lohan / Michelle Rodriguez. Prodotto da ()

Azione / Poliziesco / Thriller

Machete è un ex agente federale messicano tradito dall’organizzazione che lo ha assoldato per compiere un delitto. Con l’aiuto di suo fratello, un prete alquanto atipico, l’uomo pianifica ed esegue una sanguinosa vendetta nei confronti del suo boss.

‘Possum Walk’ writer/director Jeremy Sumrall grew up in New Waverly, Tex., about an hour north of Houston, on Possum Walk Road. He decided the name would work well for the small-town setting of a horror movie, then expanded it to be the name of the movie itself.  

Sumrall has written a number of scripts over the years in several styles (slasher, supernatural, occult, etc.), but could never finish anything before going back to the old adage ‘write about what you know.’

“I don’t really know a whole lot,” Sumrall explains. “But a couple of years ago my niece had a pregnancy scare, and naturally, since she’s in a small town, people immediately began looking down on her. She was an unmarried, small-town, 19 year old who grew up believing you do things a certain way: grow up, get married, then start having kids. That’s not the generation a lot of us live in anymore, but in small towns it’s still prevalent.”

His niece’s situation got Sumrall thinking about the general lack of privacy in small-town life — in order to have any secrets you have to be really sneaky about it – and provided the basic idea for his first motion picture, ‘Possum Walk.’

Sumrall set the movie in a small religious town and made the protagonist a girl who grows up believing in the straight-and-narrow life, living her own accordingly, but winding up pregnant anyway. 

The girl has a Southern Baptist preacher father with a ‘do as I say, not as I do’ approach. He rules over Possum Walk with an iron fist and tries to control his daughter’s life as well. At the same time these two battle their respective demons, a murderer decides to make Possum Walk his hunting ground, sexually abusing and killing its young women.

Maggie Conwell (as 'Faith Carpenter')

The paths of daughter, father, and killer eventually collide, leading to lots of messy carnage and allowing ‘Possum Walk’ to simultaneously explore the internal horror of the human mind and the external horror of, well….having a maniacal killer on the loose!

“One thing that’s always bothered me about the horror genre,” explains Sumrall, “is that people tend to look at it as being just one step above porn. And it pisses me off. There are brilliant writers and directors at work in the genre, but they get written off because the outside world sees what they’re doing as just mindless violence and sex. And yeah, we all use sex and violence in our stories, but if you go even a layer below the surface, there’s often some really good stories there to sink your teeth into. So that’s one of the things I tried to do with this one; make it a human story. If you peeled the layers back and took away all the boobs and the blood, there’s still a very dark dramatic tale here about personal redemption and living life in the moment instead of for what’s to come.”

Sumrall confesses to always having been kind of anti-message in selecting his own entertainment and is aware he might’ve run contrary to his own preferences. “There’s enough fucked up shit in this world without having to get beaten over the head with a message when I’m trying to be entertained,” he says. “Leave your fucking message out of my entertainment. And yet I wrote a script that has a message.”

‘Possum Walk’s unintentional compass seeped in through his own rebelling against small-town religious judgement. Sumrall doesn’t think religion should control anything: “It’s the fundamentalism I don’t like, whether Christian, Muslim, or the green alien that comes down from Mars. It’s not always a good thing to have blind faith, and not always a bad thing to question everything around you and find your own truth. It wasn’t until I’d finished the first draft of the script that I realized I’d written a movie saying ‘Look at yourself before you start judging anybody else.’ But there’s still lots of boobs and blood, so everything’s fine!”

Sumrall’s interest in horror began with the old slasher movies of the 80s: Friday the 13^th, Nightmare On Elm Street, Halloween, Terror Train, My Bloody Valentine. His first script was very much an old-school slasher flick, with a supernatural twist. He still hopes to finish it, but hasn’t touched it in 5 or 6 years.

‘Possum Walk’ was supposed to be mindless boobs and blood itself. But Sumrall felt compelled to change it up as he’d just finished shooting his role as the Beast in ‘Sweatshop,’ a movie he describes as over the top blood and boobs, completely ridiculous amounts of gore, and lots of fun.

The Beast ('Sweatshop')

“Possum Walk got darker and darker and darker as it went along, and a lot more serious.”

The more dramatic parts were actually the harder ones to film, Sumrall says. “There’s a moment where two girls were finally confessing their love for one another, and then they die. That’s not even a spoiler…a lot of people die in this movie! And if they’d just lived in the moment and said ‘fuck what anybody else thinks, let’s just do our own thing and be happy about it,’ maybe they wouldn’t have ended up being killed.”

“But that day, when we had the moment with those two girls, I literally had to walk away from set for 15 minutes because I was crying. I wrote it with a lot of heart. But even more came out when we were doing the scene. So much so that a just had to leave.”

His next script (‘Iso’) promises to go even further down the dark, dramatic path, centering on the existence of a girl who lives 10 years trapped in her apartment convinced there’s an entity outside bent on doing her in unless she come out and meets it on her own terms. Hitchcock meets Clive Barker, is how Sumrall describes it. A third script Sumrall describes as Evil Dead 2 meets Mad Max–comedic and politically incorrect—is also in the works.

And his aspirations aren’t limited to horror. Sumrall says he has both a romantic comedy and a family comedy kicking around in his head, though realistically he’s not sure if or when he’ll get to them.

Sumrall is a reformed drummer who works in his family’s machine shop as his day job. But he somehow not only decided he could make a movie, but succeeded in doing so. He describes the journey as “pretty fucked up.” He burned out on music, feeling like his wheels were spinning and becoming increasingly frustrated with its collaborative nature, and started horror memorabilia company Necrobilia so he could meet other fans of the genre.

While still involved with his band, he started taking script-writing classes and saw Necrobilia as a way to increase his immersion in a culture he had long admired. One day he met Stacy Davidson (‘Domain of the Damned,’ ‘Sweatshop’) and thought it was really cool there was actually someone in the Houston-area making movies. Professors had told him if he was serious about the business he’d have to move to one of the coasts, or Toronto. Sumrall called bullshit, citing Robert Rodriguez as at least one exception, but nonetheless shuffled the whole screenwriter notion toward the back of his to-do list for a time.

Welcome

Then he had the meeting with Davidson. “His movie was waaay better than I ever would have imagined,” says Sumrall. I expected to see something somebody had gone out into their backyard with a little $200 Hi-8 camera and made as a little cheesy indie movie. But instead it was very professionally done and very slick looking.”

Sumrall kept the Davidson connection alive at Texas Frightmare Weekend, the first event at which Necrobilia was going to be a vendor, attending a pre-party Davidson had organized and meeting several other film-makers from the Houston area, a network he had no idea even existed.

Beyond Davidson, Sumrall met Mel House (‘Walking Distance’), various effects artists, sound guys, and local composers through his newly discovered network. All of them were working on each other’s films. Newly invigorated, Sumrall recalls very badly wanting to just get access one of their sets to learn whatever he could.

When Davidson finished pre-production on ‘Sweatshop’ and was ready to start filming, he and Sumrall got together and Davidson happened to mention he was still looking for someone to play the killer. Sumrall jokingly responded that he had always liked the idea of playing a killer “so why not use me?” The two laughed it off.

But a couple of weeks later Davidson gave him an open invitation down to the set, followed by an e-mail asking if he’d been at all serious regarding wanting to play the slasher in a horror movie. “I thought about it for all of 2 seconds and answered yes,” says Sumrall, who, still stuck in life-long slasher-fan mode, didn’t dare really believe it was going to happen. “I was basically shitting water for 2 days.”

Sumrall eventually regained enough regularity to go down to the set on a day none of the killer’s parts were shooting and get a feel for the mechanics of movie making. He was instantly impressed. “They literally had just this single 13-in. monitor and an HD camera he was running himself. So if you were just a bystander you’d think it was a bunch of goofy fucking kids making their little backyard movie. But if you watched it in the monitor it already looked like a professional product. It was ridiculous how cool it was. So I knew I was onto something special.”

His own parts followed, and from that point on, Sumrall was on set almost every weekend for ‘Sweatshop,’ whether he had a scene or not, learning as much as he could, seeing how things were done. He describes the experience as invaluable, particularly regarding the importance of patience: “17 hours on set could sometimes yield just 5 minutes of screen time.”

After ‘Sweatshop’ Sumrall got a call from Josh Vargas for a cameo in the movie he was shooting at the time (‘Sway’). Seeing another opportunity to gain experience, Sumrall was on-set from 5p to 5a, soaking in as much as he could and making himself as available as possible in exchange for 2 seconds of camera time.

Along the way he started to get asked, only half seriously, when he was going to direct his movie. He responded that he always saw himself as more a writer than a director. “The photo shoots I’d sometimes do for Necrobilia were enough to make me want to pull what little hair I have left out of my head, so I certainly couldn’t see myself directing a whole movie.”

A pivotal moment on the ‘Sway’ set followed. Vargas had reached the end of his rope. Sumrall tries to remember the exact words: “It was something like, ‘I’m fucking done with this movie. I need to film something else.’” Sumrall let Vargas know he was thinking about writing something and had been asked when he was going to direct, and Vargas said he’d film whatever Sumrall was working on for free.

One week later Sumrall had completed ‘Possum Walk’s first draft. Vargas didn’t end up working on the film, deciding he had to finish ‘Sway’ instead. But around the same time, Robert Luke (‘Man In The Garage’) joined ‘Possum Walk’ as a producer.

Sumrall and Luke had met and hit it off on the set of ‘Walking Distance,’ and when it became clear Vargas wasn’t going to be available, Luke said he’d film it. According to Sumrall he did a “fucking amazing job.”

Jeremy Sumrall, Robert Luke

With a team in place, ‘Possum Walk’ began to take shape. But sleepless nights lay ahead, and not just because of a rigorous shooting schedule. Sumrall recalls tossing and turning to the point his wife asked him what was wrong. He had initially hired friends and acquaintances as much of the cast and crew, but had come to find that many of them were treating the whole process as a lark. His wife gave him some hard advice, but advice he needed to hear: fire everyone and rebuild it from the ground up.

Sumrall now sees it as the movie’s turning point. “I got rid of a lot of dead weight,” he says. “There were a lot of people who weren’t actually actors, but were friends of friends or whatever who thought it might be fun. And I naively thought at the beginning that I wouldn’t be able to hire any professionals, because we were working with no budget. I mean we had a few dollars to pay for things here and there, but in the grand scheme of things we were a gnat on Hollywood’s balls. We’re not talking about Michael Bay money!”

Once actors were hired, forward momentum returned. Not to suggest things actually ever got easy. “When you’re working with no budget and everybody’s living paycheck-to-paycheck at their day jobs and then putting in 18-19 hour days on the weekends….it’s really fucking difficult. Tempers flare. People snap. You’re in the middle of Texas in the middle of summer.” In the end, however, Sumrall says the common purpose of making a great movie they could all be proud of would take over and carry everyone through.

Sumrall also points out that his cast made the directing process itself easier than it could have been, being self-motivated enough to free him from having to direct their each and every move and allowing him to keep focused on the big picture instead.

‘Possum Walk’s cast includes Maggie Conwell (Faith Carpenter, the main character), Parrish Randall (her father, Brother William Carpenter), Tyler Tackett (male lead, Joe Don Sims), Victoria Lane, Keli Wolfe, Kristen Hall, and Andrew Sensenig. Sumrall describes the entire ensemble as professional, dedicated, and serious actors. “I didn’t have to ask them when we got to set if they knew what we were doing. They just knew. They all had taken notes on their scripts, had certain lines highlighted, and had their lines memorized, which the one thing I was sure wasn’t going to happen.”

Sumrall recalls a conversation with Lane before he had wiped the slate in which she was telling him how prepared she was going to be before heading out from L.A. Sumrall told her it sounded like she was going to be the most prepared person on set. She sounded surprised and Sumrall explained that the rest of the cast was just reading their lines right before they had to film them. She quickly joined the chorus letting him know that better could be had.

Girls of Possum Walk: Danielle Jones, Jessica Jecker, Maggie Conwell, Keli Wolfe

More often than not, however, the actors either got it the way Sumrall heard it in his head, or came up with an even better interpretation of their own. “I wasn’t going to knit-pick on certain words if the intent was the same,” Sumrall explains. “If the intent got changed, that’s when I’d get involved. But I never really had to crack anybody over the head about anything like that!”

Challenges included sometimes not knowing where they were going to be shooting until 5 minutes before the shot. Sumrall and Co. had secured a tiny church on the outskirts of Groesbeck, Tex. The only restriction the church placed on the project was no shooting on Sunday.

Not so fast. “Two days before the shoot,” Sumrall explains, “I got a phone call from [executive producer] Burt [Bailey] saying the church’s septic system had just exploded and sprayed piss and shit all over the church.” A new location needed to be found on next to no notice. Randall knew folks in the area and started making calls and knocking on doors, finding a replacement church just 12 hours before shooting.

Burton Bailey hard at FX work

Sumrall couldn’t get a look at the inside, but based on the outside and the fact that 50 people were arriving in the morning to make a movie went ahead and approved it. They put up signs guiding the new arrivals to the location. The next morning, five minutes before Sumrall himself was ready to head to the set, Randall calls again and says, “I screwed up. I took you to the wrong church last night.”

The correct church was right around the corner from the wrong one, but still 40-50 horror movie extras had to be diverted from inadvertently showing up at the wrong house of worship. The crew shot from daybreak until 7 pm, when choir members started showing up for their own practice.

Returning to the here and now, when asked what would constitute success for ‘Possum Walk’ Sumrall instantly responds with “absolute world domination” before dialing it back a bit. “We’ve accomplished our first goal: to make the movie. Now it’s all about getting the word out. In this day and age it’s pretty easy to self-distribute your movie, with services that print on-demand. But it takes a lot longer for you to get your money selling one piece at a time. So we’d ideally like to go with a distribution deal.”

Sumrall doesn’t pretend to know who he’d go with, or who might even be interested, but plans to work the convention circuit in 2010 to find out. Sumrall says he and the rest of the production team are willing to release the movie themselves, but he’d rather find an already established distributor.            

“I’m hoping that the hopefully pending success of ‘Sweatshop,’ which is now out with screeners getting sent to critics and getting really, really good reviews, will help springboard ‘Possum Walk’ into something maybe a little bit bigger than any of us had anticipated,” Sumrall explains. “Indie film is a hotbed right now, especially Texas indie film. Guys like Mel House are starting to put out some really good pictures that aren’t just rehashes of other movies that have come before. They’re pretty damn original and pretty fucked up and done as professionally as possible with very little money.”

Sumrall says it would be great if ‘Possum Walk’ could be lumped into the same group. movement. “I’m sure that never in a million years did Tobe Hooper expect ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ to blow up the way it did, or Eduardo Sanchez never thought ‘Blair Witch Project’ was going to be as big as it was, and I know that Oren Peli had no idea ‘Paranormal Activity’ would be as huge as it is.”

“You just never know,” concludes Sumrall. “I’d be stupid to say I want to make $40 million off this movie. Ultimately, the idea of success for me would be having people see it, having people respond to it, and through that being able to keep making movies.”

Maggie Conwell as 'Faith Carpenter'

Keli Wolfe as 'Gracie Richmond'

Ladies: Need or want a new dress for an upcoming event or just for tomorrow?  Wish you could afford a designer piece to make a stunning appearance?  You say you don’t have the cash right now?  Well, who can blame you in this economy.  Now ladies, let me introduce you to Rent The Runway. A wonderful idea started by 2 grad students to answer the age-old complaint of EVERY woman, “I just don’t have anything to wear!”

Rent The Runway is (in their own words) “…a community designed to fill the needs of women who know and love high fashion, who want to look glamorous for all their nights out (or even a special night in!), who want to have fun

with fashion but who don’t want to deal with all the anxiety of investing in piece after piece. Users benefit from the expertise of professional stylists and the shared wisdom of like-minded fashion-forward members. Through exclusive relationships with top designers, Rent the Runway is able to continually update its stock with the latest pieces.”

It’s really simple. Here’s how it works – just  3, quick steps:

Browse through our array of A-list designers and find a dress you love. Or two!

Schedule a delivery date, and your dress will appear on your doorstep. Next-day and even same-day delivery (if you live in NYC) is available, for last-minute wardrobe crises. And we’ll send you a second, back-up size—just to be safe.

Put your dress in our handy pre-paid packaging and drop in the nearest mailbox (we take care of the dry cleaning!).Enjoy ladies. Hope you get in off the waitlist.  And in a similar vein, check out Bag Borrow or Steal.  The original inventor of the idea of making the financially inaccessible accessible.
Update: I’m in.  Off the waitlist.  I really like the selection of rentable dresses: Tuleh, Herve Leger, Lela Rose, Robert Rodriguez Black Label, oh and so much more.  This is like a little girl’s dream come true.  Fabulous finds at affordable prices.  All dresses range from $50 to $200 for 4 days.  You can keep the dress for an extra 4 days (8 days total) for an additional cost (my Lela Rose dress was $90 more for 8 days).  And if you’re renting a designer for the first time then you can select 2 dress sizes so you can find your fit.  And, my last plug, you can rent a back up dress for a mere $25 for 4 days.  Totally worth the cost.  I always end up spending a lot of money on a dress that I only want to wear once or twice.  It’s more fun to don something new rather than rewear one awesome piece of clothing.  Enjoy!

American Film Market ใจดีเผยให้เราเห็นใบปิดจากหนังใหม่ของ Robert Rodriguez ที่ชื่อ Machete ที่แสดงภาพ Jessica Alba ในบทบาท Sartana สวยสวยที่น่าจะดื้อแล้วก็ดุด้วยตามธรรมเนียม

Robert Rodriguez กลับมาทำหนังมันเอาใจแฟนหนังแนว…..อีกครั้ง และหนังยังเป็นการขยายเรื่องราวจากตัวอย่างปลอมๆใน Grindhouse มาเป็นหนังใหญ่สำเร็จรูป โดยตัวละครเอกอย่าง Machete (Danny Trejo) ไอบ้าปังตอที่เลือกคนแสดงได้หน้าให้เหลือเกิน และถือว่าคุณน้า Danny ก็ไม่ใช่คนอื่นคนไกล แต่เป็นขาประจำผกก.เขาล่ะ ถ้าใครยังจำบทคุณลุงของน้องสายลับใน Spy Kids ทั้งสามภาคได้ แต่คราวนี้คุณน้ามาเดี่ยวๆและเล่นนำแบบไม่มีใครยังรัศมี เพราะแค่โชว์มัดกล้าม พร้อมแหกเสื้อคลุมที่เผยให้เห็นมีดมากมายหลายชนิดเท่านั้นแหละ….มันส์!

Machete คือพวกนอกศาสนา คนเถื่อน และอย่างที่เห็นสารรูปอย่างนี้สามารถใบ้ให้เราเดาต่อได้ว่า อาจเป็นญาติฝ่ายไหนๆก็ไม่รู้ของพวกสิงหาสับ เขาเดินทางร่อนเร่ไปทั่วเท็กซัสในยุคที่เจ้าพ่อค้ายาบ้า Torrez ( รับบทโดย Steven Seagal ในบทที่เป็นการกลับมาอย่างสมภาคภูมิ…หรือเปล่า? แต่ก็ยังดีกว่าไม่ได้กลับมาล่ะนะ ) กำลังบ้าอำนาจและทำตัวเลวสมกับเป็นตัวโกงเต็มที่

โดยไม่ได้เต็มใจนัก Machete ตัดสินใจรับข้อเสนอของหมอ Benz (Jeff Fahey) ในภารกิจลอบฆ่า McLaughlin (Robert De Niro…มีคนนี้ หนังดูเข้มขึ้นเป็นกองเลย) วุฒิสภาคนขี้โกงที่ทำชั่วให้บ้านเมืองไม่เว้นวัน ( สังเกตว่าตัวร้ายเรื่องนี้เป็นพวกนักการเมืองชั่วๆ เหมือนในหลายเรื่องของผกก.คนนี้ ) และพระเอกของเราก็ได้รับความช่วยเหลือจาก Luz (Michelle Rodriguez),Padre (Cheech Marin) และ April (Lindsay Lohan….แม่เจ้า เผลอแป็ปเดียว คุณน้องโทรมได้ที่จนมาเป็นนางเอกให้คุณน้า Danny ได้แล้วนะเนี่ย จะดีใจที่เจ๊แกมีหนังใหม่เล่นดีมั้ยเนี่ย) สาวสังคมที่หลงใหลปืนอย่าบอกใคร

ซึ่งพวกเขาทั้งหมดกำลังถูกสะกดรอยอยู่ห่างๆโดย Sartana (Alba) สายลับสาว ICE ที่สวยและเซ็กซี่สุดๆ

หนังจะมันสะใจแค่ไหน ไม่อยากจะจินตนการให้เมื่อยสมอง เอาเป็นว่าใครเป็นแฟนหนังผกก.คนนี้ คงรู้แนวทางเป็นอย่างดี ส่วนใครอยากมันก็เตรียมทำการบ้านด้วยการไปดู Planet Terror มาได้เลย หนังเขามันบรรลัยประมาณนั้นแหละ

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Reparto: Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson

Sinopsis: Adaptación en forma de largometraje del falso tráiler incluido en Grindhouse. Danny Trejo interpretará a un hombre que deberá vengarse, haciendo uso de la gran cantidad de machetes y cuchillos que esconde bajo su chaqueta.

Vía: ComingSoon

A diferencia de la entrada anterior, es bastante gratificante ver a un cineasta que sí se preocupa porque cada estímulo emanado de sus producciones, sea positivo. Tal es el caso de Robert Rodríguez con Machete que, desde que salió el falso trailer en su película Planet Terror, causó conmoción y se veía un estilo de película clase B, exagerado pero interesante.

Pues bien, ya hay imágenes del primer poster oficial, en el que se muestra a Jessica Alba en su papel de Sartana. Pareciera en un primer vistazo que sólo es ella posando con un arma, pero el efecto de envejecimiento que le dieron al poster, la identidad gráfica de la película, etc, lo hacen ver mucho más agradable, propio de lo que será la cinta.

Girellando per l’IMDb, ho scoperto in post-produzione un film che non avrei mai pensato che potesse venir realizzato: sto parlando di Machete!

Forse qualcuno ha un’idea di ciò di cui sto parlando, altri forse lo intuiranno se dico Grindhouse – Planet Terror: per tutti può essere utile http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694/.

Il regista è Robert Rodriguez, del quale se non lo conoscete vi consiglio di guardare El Mariachi (il primo, senza Banderas) e Four Rooms (l’episodio con Banderas): dopo averli visti l’ho considerato un genio. Poi  ho visto Dal tramonto all’alba e qualche pezzo dei “mariachi” successivi… il giudizio si è ridimensionato fino ad arrivare a quello di “lato scanzonato (o scazzone) del pulp”, anche per la sua amicizia con Quentin Tarantino, che è sicuramente più cerebrale.

Non so se essere contento o meno che la genialata di un finto trailer in mezzo a Planet Terror diventi un film vero e proprio: mi sembra che si rovini l’ironia dell’idea originale. Però quel finto trailer prometteva “bene”. E altrettanto bene promette il cast annunciato da IMDb. Penso che aspetterò tranquillamente di vederlo, a casa, non credo al cinema.

PS: leggendo i trivia, scopro che lo script risale al 1993: potrebbe essere un buon segno.

PPS: cliccando sul personaggio di Machete, mi accorgo che è presente anche nei tre Spy Kids, sempre interpretato da Danny Trejo… potrebbe essere un brutto segno.

Nach dem grandiosen Erfolg seines Fake Trailers in Grindhouse, hat sich Robert Rodriguez an die Arbeit gemacht, um den Fans das zu geben, was sie wollen: MACHETE. Danny-Die-Coolste-Killermaschine-Trejo trifft in der Verfilmung auf Steven-Ich-Hab-Nur-Einen-Gesichtsausdruck-Seagal. Der weitere Cast ist auch nicht von schlechten Eltern: Robert-Ich-Bin-Der-Beste-Schauspieler-DeNiro, Lindsay-Halb-Lesbisch-Halb-Drogenabhängig-Lohan, Michelle-Roarrrr-Rodriguez, Don-Coolster-Cop-Johnson und Cheech-War-Mal-Der-Welt-Grösster-Kiffer-Marin. !!!UPDATE: Tom-Ich-Bin-Die-Coolste-Horror-Make-Up-Sau-Savini ist auch dabei:

Ja da lacht das Fanboyherz. Und jetzt noch eine weitere Nachricht. Jessica-Ich-Hab-In-Sin-City-Allen-Den-Kopf-Verdreht-Alba schwingt Ihre sexy Hüften im Takt zu Machetes fallenden Munitionshülsen.

Hier das erste Poster:

Achtung Spoiler!!!! Hier die Synopsis:

Machete (Danny Trejo) a renegade former Mexican Federale, roaming the streets of Texas after a shakedown from drug lord Torrez (Steven Seagal). Reluctantly, Machete takes an offer from spin doctor Benz (Jeff Fahey) to assassinate McLaughlin (Robert De Niro) a corrupt Senator. Double crossed and on the run Machete braves the odds with the help of Luz (Michelle Rodriguez), a saucy taco slinger, Padre (Cheech Marin) his “holy” brother, and April (Lindsay 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.

Und sollte wirklich einer von euch Lesern den Fake Trailer während dem Grindhouse Film nicht gesehen haben. Kein Problem.

Hier kommt MACHETE:

If you’ve noticed the lack of posting on B&B recently, it’s been due to the fact that I (Bill Bodkin) have been taken away from blogging duties because I just went in for surgery. Nothing huge, but it’s kept me away from the site for the past week and 1/2. I even had to forgo my Halloween plans to make sure all my work was done for my job.

So I felt what better inspiration for a Top 10 post! These films are ones that I feel really can capture the Halloween spirit even if the ground is covered in snow or it’s the middle of a blazing summer.

1. Shaun of the Dead:
Fresh off the critical and cult success of their UK sitcom Spaced, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost and Big Talk Productions took a huge gamble and produced this wacky yet serious, romantic yet gory tribute to George Romero films. The film is filled to the brim with brilliant sight gags, witty one-liners, wanky British humor, tongue-in-cheek film references as well as genuine horrifying sequences and a real sense of humanity. This is one you can watch a million times and still find something new and hilarious.

2. Evil Dead Trilogy: Suck on this you primitive screw heads! The brainchild of then first-time director Sam Raimi and executed to acting perfection by Bruce CampbellThe Evil Dead series, is equal parts side-splitting comedy and gruesome, terrifying horror. The first Evil Dead flick is a bloody-as-all-hell horror film that is a good Evil Dead starting point. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn is basically a rehashing of the first film with the Three Stooges-esque comedy ramped up to 11. “Evil Dead 3″ Army of Darkness is a terrific combination of slapstick and action/horror film that is known for its memorable one-liners than anything else. Remember…shop smart…shop S Mart.

3. Sleepy Hollow: Heads will roll indeed! Tim Burton creates a beautiful film that seamlessly combines 50s Hollywood back lot horror with modern CGI technology. Slightly modified from the original story, Johnny Depp played Constable Ichabod Crane, a forward thinking yet timid NY cop sent to the small hamlet of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of murders. Burton’s gothic tendencies, Depp’s daft performance and Christopher Walken as the Headless horseman makes this a classic.

4. The Nightmare Before Christmas: Another Burton gem. This is a beautifully crafted stop-motion animated musical comedy that has inspired millions of Hot Topics products. The music of Danny Elfman (who provides the singing voice of Jack the Pumpkin King) and unique vision of director Henry Selick (and Burton of course) make this not only a timeless Halloween classic, but a Christmas one as well.

5. Night Watch/Day Watch: The brainchild of Russian visionary Timmur Bekmambetaov, (known in the states for Wanted), this is a really trippy series of films that has to be watched within the same sitting. The film revolves around Anton Gorodetsky (Konstantin Khabenskiy), a reluctant agent for the forces of good who constantly battles the end of the world, vampires and tons of emotional problems in Russia. The visuals are mind-blowing, I mean see to believe it good and the story-telling, while frustrating at first, come together perfectly in the final act.

There's gonna be HELL to pay: The Hellboy films are just two films you can catch the Halloween spirit with year-round.

6. Hell Boy and Hellboy 2: The Golden Army: Hellboy’s success can be attributed to the brilliant mind of director Guillermo del Toro as well as the brilliant performance by Ron Perlman. The fantastical adventures of Hellboy and his buddies is a visual buffet filled only with the sweetest treats. The comedy is very high especially in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army where a drunk Hellboy and Abe Sapien belt out Barry Manilow’s “Cant Smile Without You.”

7. Pan’s Labyrinth: The masterpiece of Guillermo del Toro. He is able to tell concurrent stories of a fantasy world and World War II Spain, with the same attention to detail. The film’s creature effects are what’d you’d expect from the fantastical touch of the jolly director, but the drama and the phenomenal finale are what makes the film that damn good.

8. Big Trouble in Little China: Jump on the Porkchop Express with good ol’ Jack Burton (the amazingly underrated Kurt Russell) as he and his friends go into the mystical depths of the Chinese underworld. Helmed by John Carpenter, the film has a lot of strong fantasy and martial arts elements, but it’s Russell’s faux-John Wayne performance that makes this a truly enjoyable film.

9. From Dusk Til Dawn: Not many people dig this film, but it’s still a fun film. Take the snappy dialogue of any Quentin Tarantino film and combine it with the rock ‘n’ roll violence of a Robert Rodriguez film, add a dash of pre-awesome George Clooney with a whole mess of blood, guts and go-go dancers and you’ve got yourself a damn fine horror film.

10. John Carpenter’s Vampire 2: Los Muertos: Oh my sweet Lord…Jon Bon Jovi as a vampire hunter named Derek Bliss? Yes, this actually did happen! This made for DVD sequel (from the late 90s flick with James Woods) features Jon Bon Jovi kicking vampire ass in Mexico. Along for the ride is Darius Mcrary AKA EDDIE WINSLOW from Family Matters and indie film darling Diego Luna of Y Tu Mama Tambien and Milk fame.

Check out Jessica Alba in the poster from the film that was just a little old trailer.

I can’t wait to see the posters for Steven Seagal, Robert De Niro and Lindsay Lohan!

Source: Bloody Disgusting

Filmography

Chasing down a man with a machete, is  such a Tongan storyline. Malo lelei Tonga!

Anyway, Jessica Alba is one such heroine, who is a secret agent tracking down Machete wielding villain, Danny Trejo, to bring Latina justice (a la Sonia Sotomayer) in Robert Rodriguez’s new film Machete.

My thoughts on this concept are two things: 1. Can Jessica Alba pose any more like Angelina Jolie in ‘Wanted‘ as is possible for a Hollywood action actress other than Megan Fox? No! She’s nailed it.

2. Could Robert Rodriguez, be any more “let’s do Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill movie concept,  but wait…  let’s switch out the samurai sword with a machete” No! But Rodriguez and Tarantino are one and the same person, really.

Oh Hollywood. Please get a bit more creative.

The good news is, Lindsay Lohan makes an appearance in the film returning to her first love, acting, and its nice to see Alba go back to her  action kick ass roots, which is how she first came to the world’s attention in the Dark Angel TV  series by James Cameron.

That was such a good series. The Dark Angel should be a film in 2011, about… wait… instead of robot enhanced humans fighting bad robots… it’s about robot enhanced humans fighting…bad aliens and bad humans (because there are good aliens too).

Ka  Ching! I just made James Cameron $200 million at the box office, if he reads this.

Gosh, that was a cluster-fudge line up of Hollywood names. Go Rodriguez and Alba! Anyway, if you are smitten with Alba’s Jolie pose and want  to read more in that veign, go here to this article, “She Bangs!” from the Examiner.

A atriz Jessica Alba é quem aparece no primeiro pôster de Machete. O filme que é baseado no trailer falso apresentado em Grindhouse, fez sucesso e ganhou uma versão longa metragem dirigido pelo diretor Robert Rodriguez.

Na trama, acompanhamos o renegado Machete (Danny Trejo), ex-agente federal mexicano, que depois de ser caçado pelo chefão do tráfico Torrez (Steven Seagal) vaga pelas ruas do Texas e acaba aceitando de Benz (Jeff Fahey), um relações públicas acostumado a limpar a barra de políticos, uma proposta para assassinar o senador corrupto McLaughlin (Robert De Niro).

Enquanto isso, encurralado por todos os lados, Machete só encontra ajuda na figura de Luz (Michelle Rodriguez), uma picante cozinheira de tacos, de seu irmão “santo” Padre (Cheech Marin) e da patricinha com gosto para armas April (Lindsay Lohan). Tudo isso enquanto é perseguido por Sartana (Alba), uma sexy oficial da Imigração com interesses particulares em Machete.

O filme tem estreia prevista para 2010.