![]() He’d been in some movies, but the starring roles didn’t go. “He was in George’s situation,” says Rodriguez. Cotrona (“GI Joe: Retaliation”) in the Clooney role of bank robber Seth Gecko. For one, Rodriguez is very excited about the cast he’s assembled, a blend of long-admired character actors and exciting new faces.Īlongside Zane Holtz, who recalls a young Michael Shannon, in the Tarantino role of psychotic bank robber Richie Gecko - and Jesse Garcia in the new role of Ranger Freddie Gonzalez - Rodriguez cast D.J. I can’t get any more, but it’s gruesome stuff.”Īs for why the director was playing down expectations in this area, it’s easy to see that he so values the show’s others elements, he’s cautious of letting the grindhouse and aesthetics loom too large. “I don’t know what I can reveal, but there’s lots of blood. Really grizzly,” says Robert Patrick, who plays a preacher whose fate becomes intertwined with the brothers, and who took great pains to prevent himself from accidentally revealing spoilers. Of course, others may have a different take on what exactly constitutes brutal gore. “It’s like how violence plays in Quentin’s other stories, where you have great dialogue sequences, then something shocking happens, and never when you expect. “When there is gore, it’s shocking,” he says. So when Rodriguez says that the show, which broadens the story and includes both old and new characters, will be “restrained,” we must remember the relative nature of that term - especially from the guy who had Bruce Willis shoot a man’s family jewels off in 2005’s “Sin City.” Vampy Santánico Pandemonium (Eiza González) gets to the point with Richie Gecko (Zane Holtz). vamps made the film’s latter half a symphony of action, blood and body parts. The 1996 film, written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Rodriguez, starred Tarantino and George Clooney as bank-robbing brothers who seek refuge from the law in a bar, only to find it populated by vampires. You might be surprised to find that it’s more restrained.” ![]() “The show is gonna be played a lot more naturalistic, a lot creepier, and a lot more like it’s really happening. “The show’s tone is different than the film’s,” says Rodriguez, noting that by Episode 6, the plot will have largely diverged from the film’s. ![]() The show’s pilot continues along in this visceral vein and includes both an extended shoot-out and a lengthy scene centered around a bullet-ridden body that’s interrupted by one character’s haunting vampiric visions.īut when asked about which of his trademark grindhouse touches fans can expect from the show, Rodriguez plays down the sex, guts and gore, explaining that “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series,” will only have about as much blood and violence as “The Walking Dead.” She is captured and tossed into a pit, where snakes encircle her before one makes its way into her mouth and down her throat. If the show’s opening scene is any indication, the answer is an impassioned “you bet.” Ranger Freddie Gonzalez (Jesse Garcia) takes a bullet - well, several bullets - in “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series.”Īfter a montage of Aztec imagery and a vampire’s voice-over, we see a beautiful young woman running through a forest on a stormy night, chased by scantily clad, torch-wielding villagers. ![]() So now that Rodriguez has his own network, El Rey, and has remade his 1996 film “From Dusk Till Dawn” as a TV series premiering Tuesday at 9 p.m., does that mean fans can expect a weekly diet of swinging guts and bloody gore - often accompanied, or caused, by some of the the hottest babes in Hollywood? Fans of filmmaker Robert Rodriguez have come to expect the likes of Rose McGowan mowing people down with a machine-gun leg in “Planet Terror,” or Danny Trejo killing a man, ripping him open and using his intestines to climb down a building in “Machete.”
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