{"id":843,"date":"2009-04-24T09:47:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T07:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/?p=843"},"modified":"2009-04-24T19:10:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:10:17","slug":"they-called-him-machete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/2009\/04\/they-called-him-machete\/","title":{"rendered":"They Called him Machete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/wiki\/index.php\/Machete\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/wiki\/images\/thumb\/Machete06.jpg\/280px-Machete06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>Looks like he&#8217;s back with a vengeance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/wiki\/index.php\/Danny_Trejo\" target=\"_self\">Danny Trejo<\/a> as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/wiki\/index.php\/Machete\" target=\"_self\">Machete<\/a><\/strong>, the title character of the opening faux trailer from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/wiki\/index.php\/Grindhouse\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Grindhouse<\/strong><\/a>, will return to the big screen (or the small one if it goes straight to DVD).<a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118002792.html?categoryid=1237&amp;cs=1\"> Variety learned<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/wiki\/index.php\/Robert_Rodriguez\" target=\"_self\">Robert Rodriguez<\/a>, who seems to be attached to a dozen projects right now, including his own project Nerverackers, a Predator remake, Sin City 2 (which seems to be without a studio backer right now) and all the crazy childrens movies you can possibly imagine. 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