Robert Rodriguez

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Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American filmmaker and visual effects supervisor.

Many of his films are shot, edited, produces, and scores in Mexico and Texas, as well as in his home state.

After grossing $2 million against a budget of $75,000, Rodriguez produced the 1992 action film El Mariachi, which was a commercial success.

The film made two sequels known collectively as the Mexico Trilogy: Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

He directed From Dusk Till Dawn in 1996 and created its television adaptation series (2014-2016).

Rodriguez contributed to the 2005 neo-noir crime thriller anthology Sin City (adapted from the graphic novel of the same name) and the 2014 sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is a Dame.

The Faculty, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Planet Terror, Machete, and Alita: Battle Angel were all directed by Rodriguez.

He is Quentin Tarantino's best friend and frequent collaborator, and he helped develop A Band Apart, of which Rodriguez was a member.

El Rey, Rodriguez's own cable television network, was born in December 2013.

Early life

Rodriguez was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican-American parents Rebecca (née Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodriguez, a salesman. When his father bought one of the first VCRs, he began to film at age 11.

Rodriguez, a student at St. Anthony High School Seminary in San Antonio, was hired to filmtape the school's football games. He was shot shortly afterward after shooting a film in a cinematic style, getting photos of parents' reactions and the ball flying through the air rather than shooting the entire film, according to his brother. He met Carlos Gallardo in high school, and the two of them shot films on video throughout high school and college.

Rodriguez attended the University of Texas's College of Communication in Austin, where he also discovered a love of cartooning. He created Los Hooligans, a daily comic strip that does not have enough grades to be accepted into the school's film program. Many of the characters were based on his siblings, including Maricarmen, who was one of his sisters. The comic appeared in The Daily Texan, a student newspaper, for three years, though Rodriguez continued to produce short films.

Rodriguez shot action and horror short films on video and edited on two VCRs. In late 1990, his participation in a local film competition earned him a spot in the university's film program. Bedhead, an award-winning 16 mm short (1991), was among his fellow Bedheads. The film chronicles a teenage girl's amusing misadventures when her older brother's hair is a tangled mess of hair that she detests. Rodriguez' signature style began early on: quick cuts, powerful zooms, and fast camera movements with a sense of humor.

In the Black Maria Film Festival, Bedhead was lauded for their excellence. It was selected by Film/Video Curator Sally Berger for the Black Maria 20th-anniversary retrospective at MoMA in 2006.

Personal life

Rodriguez and his wife Elizabeth Avellán, who had five children (Rocket, Racer, Rogue, and Rhiannon), announced in April 2006 that they had separated after 16 years of marriage.

During the shooting of Grindhouse, the actor is said to have had a "dalliance" with actress Rose McGowan. Rodriguez had cast McGowan in his Barbarella remake in October 2007. Elle Magazine announced it in October 2007. They broke up and being back together again in October 2009.

Alexa Vega (Carmen Cortez, Spy Kids movie) walked her down the aisle at her wedding to producer Sean Covel in October 2010.

During the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Rodriguez unveiled his collection of Frank Frazetta original paintings.

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Career

Bedhead's short film Attraction enough curiosity to have him seriously consider a career as an actor. He continued to shoot El Mariachi (1992) in Spanish, earning around $7,000 from donations from his buddy Adrian Kano and others for his own participation in medical research studies. In 1993, Rodriguez received the Audience Award for this film at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, which was intended for the Spanish-language low-budget home-video industry, was "cleaned up" by Columbia Pictures with post-production services, costing several hundred thousand dollars before being released in the United States. "The movie made for $7,000" was still on the advertisement. In his book Rebel Without a Crew (1995), Rodriguez recalled his experiences making the film.

Desperado, Antonio Banderas' sequel to El Mariachi, introduced Salma Hayek to international audiences as her English-language breakthrough role. Rodriguez went on to work with Quentin Tarantino on the vampire drama From Dusk to Dawn (also co-producing its two sequels), and he wrote, directed, and produced the TV series for his own cable network, El Rey. Rodriguez has also appeared on Kevin Williamson's sci-fi thriller The Faculty.

Rodriguez had his first Hollywood success with Spy Kids, which later became a film franchise. In late 2003, a third "mariachi" film, "Once Upon a Time in Mexico), which concluded the Mexico Trilogy (also known as the Mariachi Trilogy). Previously Los Hooligans Productions, he runs Troublemaker Studios, a production firm based in Los Hooligans Productions.

Rodriguez co-directed Sin City, Frank Miller's adaptation of the comic books; Quentin Tarantino guest-directed a scene. Rodriguez argued that Miller be named co-director during production because he felt Miller's comic art's visual style was just as relevant as his own in the film. However, the Directors Guild of America would not endorse it, citing that only "legitimate teams," e.g., the Wachowskis, would reveal the director's name. Rodriguez resigned from the DGA after saying, "It was quicker for me to resign before firing because otherwise, I'd be required to make compromises that might damage the guild later." Rodriguez was compelled to relinquish his director's seat on the film John Carter of Mars for Paramount Pictures after resigning from the DGA. Rodriguez had already signed up and had been confirmed as the film's producer, and hopes that filming would begin shortly after finishing Sin City.

Sin City was a critical hit in 2005, as well as a box office hit, especially for a graphic book version that did not have name recognition matching the X-Men or Spider-Man. He has an obsession with converting all of Miller's Sin City comic books.

In 2005, Rodriguez released The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, a superhero-kid film aimed at the same younger audiences as his Spy Kids series. Sharkboy and Lavagirl was based on a tale told by Rodriguez's 7-year-old son, Racer, who was given credit for the filmplay. At the box office, the film grossed $39 million.

Planet Terror was written and directed by Rodriguez as part of the double-bill release Grindhouse (2007). Quentin Tarantino produced Grindhouse's other film.

On several of his DVD releases, he has a series of "Ten Minute Film School" segments, demonstrating how to make good, profitable films using inexpensive techniques. Rodriguez began making "Ten Minute Cooking School," in which he introduced his recipe for "Puerco Pibil," the same food Johnny Depp's character, Agent Sands, ate in the film, beginning with Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Rodriguez's grandmother's tortilla dish and various egg mixes were used for the filling, owing to the success of this series. He had intended to launch a third "Cooking School" with the DVD launch of Planet Terror, but decided on the "Film School" segment of the DVD that it would go instead. From the GRAVE! The Cooking School named "Texas Barbecue." "Is a dish based on JT Hague's "most spoor barbecue sauce" of JT Hague, Jeff Fahey's character in the film. We Can Be Heroes, Netflix's latest film, was a hit on December 25, 2020.

Rodriguez is a strong promoter of digital filmmaking, having been introduced by director George Lucas, who generously encouraged Rodriguez to use the digital cameras at Lucas's headquarters. At the 2010 Austin Film Festival, he was awarded the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award.

Rodriguez would produce a new Predator sequel called Predators on February 7, 2010. The original's script was based on early drafts he had written after seeing the original. Rodriguez's plans included a planet-sized game preserve and some animals used by the Predators to hunt a group of abducted yet skilled humans. The film did a decent job at the box office in the opening to mostly positive feedback.

Machete, a Rodriguez-directed feature film that was released in September 2010, was a hit in the United States. It's the continuation of a fake trailer Rodriguez made for the 2007 film Grindhouse. Danny Trejo played the title character in the film. Trejo, Rodriguez' 2nd cousin, appeared in several of his films including Desperado, From Dusk to Dawn, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and Spy Kids, where Trejo first appeared as Machete. Despite being originally planned to be released direct-to-DVD as an extra on the Planet Terror DVD, the film was released as a theatrical release.

According to Rodriguez, the film's sources go back to Desperado. "I said, 'This guy should be like the Mexican Jean-Claude Van Damme or Charles Bronson, putting out a film every year, and his name should be Machete," he says. So I decided to do it way back in the past, but I didn't get around to it until now. So, of course, I want to keep going and do a feature." Rodriguez said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that he drafted the screenplay back in 1993 when he played Trejo in Desperado. "I told him this story about a federale from Mexico who is hired to do hatchet jobs in the United States." I had noticed that when FBI or DEA have a demanding career that they don't want to get their own agents killed on, they'd send an agent from Mexico to do the job for $25,000. "That's Machete," I thought. He may come and do a really difficult job for a lot of money, but for everyone else over here, it's peanuts." But I never got around to making it."

Rodriguez wanted to film Machete at the same time as Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. In addition, during Comic-Con International 2008, he took the time to speak about Machete, including things such as: position, future sequels, and production priorities. It was also revealed that he had regularly pulled sequences from his other films, including Once Upon a Time in Mexico. In the United States, Machete was first introduced in theaters on September 3, 2010.

Rodriguez responded to Arizona's tense citizenship law by releasing a "illegal" trailer on Ain't It Cool News on May 5, 2010. The fake trailer incorporated elements of the Machete trailer that appeared in Grindhouse with footage from the actual film, implying that the film would be about Machete, a resistance movement against anti-immigration leaders and border vigilantes. Several movie websites, including the Internet Movie Database, announced that it was the official teaser for the film. Rodriguez later revealed the trailer to be a prank, saying, "It was Cinco de Mayo and I had too much tequila."

Rodriguez announced in May 2020 that he would direct an episode from the second season of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, which is part of the Star Wars franchise. Rodriguez made the announcement in a Facebook post in which he posed with a puppet of Grobo, a major character in The Mandalorian's first two seasons. He also posted a video of himself on the set of the episode of playing a guitar next to Groove.

In December 2020, it was also revealed that Rodriguez produced The Book of Boba Fett, a spin-off of The Mandalorian released in December 2021, where he also spoke about Dokk Strassi and Mok Shaiz.

Rodriguez had signed a two-year first-look contract with HBO and HBO Max in August 2021.

Since 1998, Rodriguez has owned the film rights to Mike Allred's offbeat comedy Madman. On several occasions, the two have speculated at the possibility of the project being close to starting without knowing about it. However, other projects were not complete right away. (Allred was instrumental in connecting Rodriguez with Frank Miller, which culminated in the production of Sin City.) Allred, who was promoting his comic book The Golden Plates, revealed that a screenplay by George Huang was almost finished in 2004. Madman the Movie will likely debut in 2006, according to Allred, who confirmed it at the 2006 WonderCon. Huang was a friend of Rodriguez, who advised him to pursue filmmaking as a career as a child.

In May 2007, Rodriguez had confirmed that he had signed on to oversee a Barbarella remake for a 2008 release. Rosario Dawson, an actress from Barbarella, also attended the 2007 Comic-Con convention, announced that A Dame to Kill For will be postponed. She also revealed that she would be playing an amazon in the Barbarella film. As of June 2008, plans to remake Barbarella with Rose McGowan as the lead had been postponed; instead, the actor and director were remaking the film Red Sonja.

Rodriguez was reported to be shopping around a prison drama television show called Woman in Chains in May 2008, with Rose McGowan as a candidate for a lead role. Rodriguez planned to produce a live-action version of Fire and Ice, a 1983 film collaboration between painter Frank Frazetta and animator Ralph Bakshi. Following Frazetta's death, the transaction was ended shortly after.

Rodriguez revealed at Comic-Con in 2011 that he had purchased the Heavy Metal film rights and planned to produce a new animated film at the new Quick Draw Studio.

Rodriguez produced the film 100 Years in November 2015, but it would not be released until 2115.

It was revealed in March 2017 that Rodriguez would direct a remake of the dystopian sci-fi action film Escape from New York, with original director John Carpenter producing.

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