Robert Rodriguez is currently hard at work on two hotly-anticipated sequels in the grindhouse follow-up Machete Kills and the long-awaited comic book adaptation Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and yesterday saw the first of those picked up for U.S. distribution by Open Road Films for a 2013 release. Accompanying the news was the arrival of the first official image from the sequel to the 2010 cult hit Machete, which sees Danny Trejo's ex-Federale enjoying a lap dance courtesy of Amber Heard's (Drive Angry) Miss San Antonio...
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In Machete Kills, Trejo's hard-as-nails Mexican is recruited by the President of the United States in order to take down a psychotic revolutionary and a billionaire arms dealer who plan to cause a global war by launching a weapon into space. Along with Amber Heard, Trejo is joined in the cast by fellow returnees Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar), Jessica Alba (Sin City) and Tom Savini (Planet Terror), along with Mel Gibson (Lethal Weapon), Charlie Sheen (Anger Management), Vanessa Hudgens (Sucker Punch), Antonio Banderas (Desperado), Sofía Vergara (Modern Family), Demián Bichir (A Better Life), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption) and pop diva Lady Gaga in her acting debut.![]()
In Machete Kills, Trejo's hard-as-nails Mexican is recruited by the President of the United States in order to take down a psychotic revolutionary and a billionaire arms dealer who plan to cause a global war by launching a weapon into space. Along with Amber Heard, Trejo is joined in the cast by fellow returnees Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar), Jessica Alba (Sin City) and Tom Savini (Planet Terror), along with Mel Gibson (Lethal Weapon), Charlie Sheen (Anger Management), Vanessa Hudgens (Sucker Punch), Antonio Banderas (Desperado), Sofía Vergara (Modern Family), Demián Bichir (A Better Life), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption) and pop diva Lady Gaga in her acting debut.
