American filmmaker (born 1968)
Robert Anthony Rodriguez
(
; born June 20, 1968)
[1]
[2]
is an American filmmaker, composer, and visual effects supervisor. He shoots, edits, produces, and scores many of his films in Mexico and in his home state of
Texas
. Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film
El Mariachi
, which was a commercial success after grossing $2.6 million ($5.5 million in 2023 dollars) against a 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 a Time in Mexico
(2003).
He directed
From Dusk till Dawn
in 1996 and developed its
television adaptation series
(2014?2016).
[3]
Rodriguez co-directed 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
.
Rodriguez is also the creator of the
Spy Kids
franchise, as well as
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D
(2005),
Planet Terror
(2007),
Machete
(2010),
We Can Be Heroes
(2020), and also directed
The Faculty
(1998) and
Alita: Battle Angel
(2019).
He is a close friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker
Quentin Tarantino
,
[4]
who founded the production company
A Band Apart
, of which Rodriguez was a member. In December 2013, Rodriguez launched his own cable television channel,
El Rey
.
Early life
[
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]
Rodriguez was born in
San Antonio, Texas
, the son of Mexican parents Rebecca (
nee
Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodriguez, a salesman.
[5]
[6]
He began his interest in film at age eleven, when his father bought one of the first
VCRs
, which came with a camera.
[7]
While attending
St. Anthony High School Seminary
in San Antonio, Rodriguez was commissioned to videotape the school's football games. According to his sister, he was fired soon afterward as he had shot footage in a cinematic style, getting shots of parents' reactions and the ball traveling through the air instead of shooting the whole play. In high school, he met Carlos Gallardo; they both shot films on video throughout high school and college.
Rodriguez went to the
College of Communication
at the
University of Texas at Austin
, where he also developed a love of cartooning. Not having grades high enough to be accepted into the school's film program, he created a daily comic strip entitled
Los Hooligans.
Many of the characters were based on his siblings ? in particular, one of his sisters, Maricarmen. The comic ran for three years in the student newspaper
The Daily Texan
, while Rodriguez continued to make short films.
[8]
Rodriguez shot action and horror short films on video and edited on two VCRs. In late 1990, his entry in a local film contest earned him a spot in the university's film program. There he made the award-winning 16 mm short
Bedhead
(1991). The film chronicles the amusing misadventures of a young girl whose older brother sports an incredibly tangled mess of hair which she detests. Even at this early stage, Rodriguez's trademark style began to emerge: quick cuts, intense zooms, and fast camera movements deployed with a sense of humor.
Bedhead
was recognized for excellence in the Black Maria Film Festival. It was selected by Film/Video Curator Sally Berger for the Black Maria 20th-anniversary retrospective at
MoMA
in 2006.
Career
[
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]
Early career
[
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]
The short film
Bedhead
attracted enough attention to encourage him to seriously attempt a career as a filmmaker.
[9]
He went on to shoot the action flick
El Mariachi
(1992) in Spanish; he shot it for around $7,000 with money raised by his friend Adrian Kano and from payments for his own participation in medical testing studies.
[10]
Rodriguez won the Audience Award for this film at the
Sundance Film Festival
in 1993.
[11]
Intended for the Spanish-language low-budget home-video market, the film was "cleaned up" by
Columbia Pictures
with post-production work costing several hundred thousand dollars before it was distributed in the United States.
[12]
Its promotion still advertised it as "the movie made for $7,000". Rodriguez described his experiences making the film in his book
Rebel Without a Crew
(1995).
[13]
Mainstream success
[
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]
Desperado
was a sequel to
El Mariachi
that starred
Antonio Banderas
and introduced
Salma Hayek
to international audiences as her English-language breakthrough role.
[14]
[15]
Rodriguez went on to collaborate with
Quentin Tarantino
on the
vampire
thriller
From Dusk till Dawn
(also both co-producing its
two sequels
), and he wrote, directed, and produced the
TV series
for his own cable network,
El Rey
.
[16]
Rodriguez has also worked with
Kevin Williamson
, on the sci-fi thriller film
The Faculty
.
[17]
Rodriguez, formerly a member of
Writers Guild of America West
, left and maintained
financial core
status in 2001.
[18]
That year, Rodriguez enjoyed his first Hollywood hit with
Spy Kids
, which went on to become a movie franchise. A third "mariachi" film also appeared in late 2003,
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
, which completed the
Mexico Trilogy
(also called the Mariachi Trilogy). He operates a production company called
Troublemaker Studios
, formerly Los Hooligans Productions.
[19]
Rodriguez co-directed
Sin City
(2005), an adaptation of
the comic books
by
Frank Miller
; Quentin Tarantino guest-directed a scene. During production in 2004, Rodriguez insisted Miller be credited as co-director, because he considered the visual style of Miller's comic art to be just as important as his own in the film. However, the
Directors Guild of America
would not allow it, citing that only "legitimate teams",
e.g.
,
the Wachowskis
, could share the director's credit. Rodriguez chose to resign from the DGA, stating, "It was easier for me to quietly resign before shooting because otherwise I'd be forced to make compromises I was unwilling to make or set a precedent that might hurt the guild later on." By resigning from the DGA, Rodriguez was forced to relinquish his director's seat on the film
John Carter of Mars
for
Paramount Pictures
. Rodriguez had already signed on and had been announced as director of that film, planning to begin filming soon after completing
Sin City
.
[20]
[21]
Sin City
was a critical hit in 2005 as well as a box office success, particularly for a hyperviolent comic book adaptation that did not have name recognition comparable to the
X-Men
or
Spider-Man
. He has an interest in adapting all of Miller's
Sin City
comic books.
[22]
Rodriguez released
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
in 2005, a superhero-kid movie intended for the same younger audiences as his
Spy Kids
series.
Sharkboy and Lavagirl
was based on a story conceived by Rodriguez's 7-year-old son, Racer, who was given credit for the screenplay. The film grossed over $69 million worldwide at the box office.
[23]
Rodriguez wrote and directed the film
Planet Terror
as part of the double-bill release
Grindhouse
(2007). Quentin Tarantino directed
Grindhouse'
s other film.
He has a series of "Ten Minute Film School" segments on several of his DVD releases, showing aspiring filmmakers how to make good, profitable movies using inexpensive tactics. Starting with the
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
DVD, Rodriguez began creating a series called "Ten Minute Cooking School" in which he revealed his recipe for "Puerco Pibil" (based on
Cochinita pibil
, an old dish from
Yucatan
), the same food
Johnny Depp
's character, Agent Sands, ate in the film. The popularity of this series led to the inclusion of another "Cooking School" on the two-disc version of the
Sin City
DVD where Rodriguez teaches the viewer how to make "Sin City Breakfast Tacos", a dish (made for his cast and crew during late-night shoots and editing sessions) utilizing his grandmother's tortilla recipe and different egg mixes for the filling. He had initially planned to release a third "Cooking School" with the DVD release of
Planet Terror
but then announced on the "Film School" segment of the DVD that he would put it on the
Grindhouse
DVD set instead. The Cooking School, titled "Texas Barbecue...from the GRAVE!", is a dish based on the "secret barbecue recipe" of JT Hague,
Jeff Fahey
's character in the film.
[24]
Rodriguez is a strong supporter of
digital filmmaking
, having been introduced to the practice by director
George Lucas
, who personally invited Rodriguez to use the digital cameras at Lucas's headquarters.
[25]
He was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2010
Austin Film Festival
.
Predators
[
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]
In 2010, Rodriguez produced a new
Predator
sequel, entitled
Predators
. This film's script was based on early drafts he had written after seeing the original. Rodriguez's ideas included a planet-sized game preserve and various creatures used by the Predators to hunt a group of abducted yet skilled humans. Opening to mostly positive reviews, the film fared reasonably well at the box office.
Machete
[
edit
]
Machete
is a feature film directed by Rodriguez and released in September 2010. It is an expansion of a fake
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 movies such as
Desperado
,
From Dusk till Dawn
,
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
and
Spy Kids
, where Trejo first appeared as Machete. Although originally announced to be released direct-to-DVD as an extra on the
Planet Terror
DVD, the film was produced as a theatrical release.
[26]
According to Rodriguez, the origins of the film go back to
Desperado
. He says, "When I met Danny, I said, 'This guy should be like the Mexican
Jean-Claude Van Damme
or
Charles Bronson
, putting out a movie every year and his name should be Machete.' So I decided to do that way back when, never got around to it until finally now. So now, of course, I want to keep going and do a feature."
[27]
In an interview with
Rolling Stone
magazine, Rodriguez said that he wrote the screenplay back in 1993 when he cast Trejo in
Desperado
. "So I wrote him this idea of a
federale
from Mexico who gets hired to do hatchet jobs in the U.S. I had heard sometimes
FBI
or
DEA
have a really tough job that they don't want to get their own agents killed on, they'll hire an agent from Mexico to come do the job for $25,000. I thought, "That's
Machete
. He would come and do a really dangerous job for a lot of money to him but for everyone else over here it's peanuts." But I never got around to making it."
[28]
Rodriguez hoped to film
Machete
at the same time as
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
.
[29]
Additionally, during
Comic-Con International 2008
, he took the time to speak about Machete, including such topics as: status, possible sequels after the release of Machete, and production priorities.
[30]
It was also revealed that he has regularly pulled sequences from it for his other productions, including
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
.
[
Citation Needed]
Machete
was released in theaters September 3, 2010, in the U.S.
On May 5, 2010, Rodriguez responded to Arizona's controversial immigration law by releasing an "illegal" trailer on Ain't It Cool News.
[31]
The fake trailer combined elements of the
Machete
trailer that appeared in
Grindhouse
with footage from the actual film,
[32]
and implied that the film would be about Machete leading a revolt against anti-immigration politicians and border vigilantes.
[32]
Several movie websites, including
Internet Movie Database
, reported that it was the official teaser for the film.
[32]
However, Rodriguez later revealed the trailer to be a joke, explaining "it was
Cinco de Mayo
and I had too much
tequila
."
[32]
Streaming projects
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]
In May 2020, Rodriguez announced, via an Instagram post in which he posed with a puppet of
Grogu
, that he would direct an episode from the second season of the
Disney+
series
The Mandalorian
, part of the
Star Wars
franchise.
[33]
He also tweeted a video of himself on the set of the episode playing a guitar next to Grogu.
[34]
Rodriguez was also an executive producer on
The Book of Boba Fett
, a spin-off of
The Mandalorian
released in December 2021,
[35]
where he also voiced Dokk Strassi
[36]
and Mok Shaiz.
[37]
In 2020, Rodriguez wrote and directed
We Can Be Heroes
, a
Sharkboy and Lavagirl
spinoff, which was released on December 25, 2020 on 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 mixed reviews from critics.
[40]
[41]
Unrealized projects
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]
Since 1998, Rodriguez has owned the film rights to
Mike Allred
's off-beat comic
Madman
. The two have hinted at the project being close to beginning on several occasions without anything coming of it. However, other projects have been completed first. (Allred was instrumental in connecting Rodriguez with Frank Miller, leading to the production of
Sin City
.) In 2004, Allred, while promoting his comic book
The Golden Plates
, announced that a screenplay by
George Huang
was near completion. Allred announced at the 2006
WonderCon
that production would likely commence on
Madman the Movie
in 2006. Huang is friends with Rodriguez, who advised him to pursue filmmaking as a career when Rodriguez landed a deal with
Columbia Pictures
where Huang was an employee.
[
citation needed
]
In May 2007, it was announced that Rodriguez had signed on to direct a remake of
Barbarella
for a 2008 release.
[42]
At the 2007
Comic-Con
convention, actress
Rosario Dawson
announced that because of
Barbarella
, production of
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
would be put on hold. She also announced that she would be playing an amazon in the Barbarella film.
[43]
As of June 2008, plans to remake the film Barbarella with
Rose McGowan
as the lead have been delayed; the actress and director were instead remaking the film
Red Sonja
.
[44]
In May 2008, Rodriguez was said to be shopping around a prison drama television series called
Woman in Chains!
, with
Rose McGowan
being a possibility for a lead role.
[45]
In May 2009, Rodriguez planned to produce a live-action remake of
Fire and Ice
, a 1983 film collaboration between painter
Frank Frazetta
and animator
Ralph Bakshi
. The deal was closed shortly after Frazetta's death.
[32]
In 2011, Rodriguez announced at
Comic-Con
that he had purchased the film rights to
Heavy Metal
and planned to develop a
new animated film
at the new Quick Draw Studios.
[46]
In November 2015, it was announced that Rodriguez directed the film
100 Years
, which would not be released until 2115.
[47]
In March 2017, it was announced that Rodriguez would direct a remake of the dystopian sci-fi action film
Escape from New York
, with original director
John Carpenter
producing.
[48]
Appearances
[
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]
Rodriguez has a chapter giving advice in
Tim Ferriss
's book
Tools of Titans
.
Personal life
[
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]
Rodriguez announced in April 2006 that he and his wife
Elizabeth Avellan
, with whom he had five children, had separated after 16 years of marriage.
[49]
He reportedly had a "dalliance"
[50]
with actress
Rose McGowan
during the shooting of
Grindhouse
.
[51]
In October 2007,
Elle Magazine
revealed that Rodriguez had cast McGowan in the title role in his remake of
Barbarella
.
[52]
They split up in October 2009.
[53]
In October 2010, he walked
Alexa Vega
(
Carmen Cortez
in
Spy Kids
series) down the aisle at her wedding to producer
Sean Covel
.
[54]
In March 2014, Rodriguez showed his collection of Frank Frazetta original paintings in
Austin, Texas
, during the
SXSW
festival.
[55]
Style
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]
Rodriguez not only has the credits of producing, directing and writing his films, he also frequently serves as
editor
,
director of photography
,
camera operator
,
steadicam
operator, composer,
production designer
, visual effects supervisor, and
sound editor
on his films. This has earned him the nickname of "the one-man film crew". He abbreviates his numerous roles in his film credits;
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
, for instance, is "shot, chopped, and scored by Robert Rodriguez", and
Sin City
is "shot and cut by Robert Rodriguez".
He calls his style of making movies "Mariachi-style" (in reference to his first feature film
El Mariachi
) in which (according to the back cover of his book
Rebel Without a Crew
) "Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems." He prefers to 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 compiling a list of things they have access to like cool cars, apartments, horses, samurai swords and so on, and then writing the screenplay based on that list.
[57]
Rodriguez wrote a blurb for the book that stated:
I'd been wanting to write a book for the new breed of digital filmmakers, but now I don't have to. My pal and fellow movie maker Stu Maschwitz has compressed years of experience into this thorough guide. Don't make a movie without reading this book!
[57]
Filmography
[
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]
Bibliography
[
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]
- Rebel Without a Crew
(subtitle: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player) - 1995
Influences
[
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]
Robert Rodriguez has brought a number of his favorite and most influential directors on his television show,
The Director's Chair
. Some of these directors included
John Carpenter
,
Quentin Tarantino
, and
George Miller
.
Rodriguez's favorite movie as a child was
Escape to Witch Mountain
, and admits that film, alongside
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
,
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
, various
James Bond
films and various
Ray Harryhaussen
films influenced and inspired him while he was working on the
Spy Kids
series.
[58]
[59]
[60]
He also said on IGN that children will support anything that is empowering to them, citing
Home Alone
and
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
, saying "
You can't understand, 'Why do you like Power Rangers?' Well, it's empowerment, and children ? especially younger children ? they need their mom just to go to the mall, you know? They can't drive themselves wherever they want. So when they see kids being very empowered, flying around in jet packs, being proactive, it's empowering to them
".
[61]
Collaborations
[
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]
Rodriguez has cast certain actors in more than one of his projects.
Danny Trejo
has appeared in ten of his projects, while
Antonio Banderas
,
Salma Hayek
, and
Cheech Marin
have all appeared in seven;
Alexa PenaVega
has appeared in six, and
Jessica Alba
,
Daryl Sabara
,
Tom Savini
, and
Patricia Vonne
have all appeared in five.
[62]
See also
[
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]
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