Where in the film the characters spent less than ten minutes at Benny’s World of Liquor, aside from a few flashbacks to expand the characters it is the setting for the majority of the pilot episode.
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Beyond this scene and a few flashes courtesy of Richie Gecko (originally played by Quentin Tarantino and now Zane Holtz) the episode is free of the supernatural, and viewers familiar with the film expecting profound differences will be disappointed. The only significant deviation from the original is a short and creepy voodoo-style ritual which sees a young woman thrown into grave of snakes.
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With only the pilot available so far, written and directed by Rodriguez himself, the series is an expanded version of the movie but is sticking closely to the format and plot of the film, though Rodriguez has stated his intention to delve into the Mesoamerican mythology of the vampires who, for reasons which have yet to be explained in the series, have decided to open up a bar called the Titty Twister and feast on the clientele, although this might not promote regular cash flow, with repeat business probably not featuring in their business plans since no customer ever leaves. While those shows were released as whole seasons for consumption as fast as the viewer demanded, this model is more akin to the traditional broadcast model followed by Breaking Bad, one episode released each week the day after the original network broadcast. With the first episode airing on El Rey on March 18 th and made available on Netflix a day later, the show is advertised as a “Netflix Original” but unlike House of Cards and Hemlock Grove it’s not actually produced by Netflix. From Dusk Till Dawn fills the criteria quite nicely, since the majority of the story takes place in Mexico yet featuring English speaking principal characters. The mission statement of El Rey was to offer programming for a neglected Latino audience with English language entertainment but without marginalising viewers who weren’t Latino. Of all the films that Rodriguez has been involved in this was the natural choice. On the back of his success elsewhere, in 2013 Rodriguez launched his own television channel, El Rey, responding to political pressure for more minority owned channels in America, with the main hook the announcement that From Dusk Till Dawn was to be developed as a television series. Rounding out the cast were Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Salma Hayek, Danny Trejo and the man who introduced millions of teenagers to the recreational use of herbs, Cheech Marin.Ī much loved genre mash-up of horror and crime thriller which is repeatedly watchable, despite the failure to perform at the box office it achieved cult classic status, spawning two sequels ( Texas Blood Money in 1999 and The Hangman’s Daughter in 2000. Starring George Clooney at the height of his ER fame and Tarantino as the psychopathic Gecko brothers, Seth and Richie, it nevertheless wasn’t a particularly successful movie. Tarantino wrote the script, while Rodriguez directed. Things tend to go awry in these situations and the group end up at a bar populated by an assortment of unusual characters and inhabited by ravenous vampires. Released in January 1996, From Dusk Till Dawn told the cheery tale of two criminal brothers escaping to Mexico by taking a family hostage. As well as unaccredited work on Pulp Fiction for the scenes where principal director Quentin Tarantino was on camera playing Jimmy Dimmick, Rodriguez is also responsible for Desperado, The Faculty, Spy Kids and its sequels, Planet Terror (originally planned as a “double feature” along with Tarantino’s Death Proof), the Machete films with Danny Trejo and was a co-director on Sin City and its upcoming sequel. With a career going back to 1992’s El Mariachi, Robert Rodriguez is the kind of film maker that is easy to admire for his creativity and even easier to hate because he seems to do whatever he pleases and gets away with it, a cult director who has crossed over to achieve mainstream success.
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