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Robert Rodriguez

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Robert Anthony Rodriguez



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Born: June 20, 1968 (age 38)
Flag of United States San Antonio, Texas
Occupation: Writer, Film director, producer and screenwriter
Salary: USD
Children: Rocket, Racer, Rebel, Rogue, and Rhiannon
Website: http://www.troublemakerstudios.com/

Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is a Mexican-American writer and film director who is known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards. Rodriguez shoots and produces many of his films in Texas and Mexico.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Rodriguez began his interest in film at 7 when his father bought one of the first VCRs, which came with a camera. He took the camera and started to make short films with his brothers and sisters participating as the cast and crew. It did not hurt that there were ten of them (including Robert) and that these early stages provided the crucial groundwork that would lead to Rodriguez's development as a filmmaker.

After graduating from St. Anthony Catholic High School, Rodriguez went to the University of Texas where he also developed a love of cartooning. His grades were not good enough to get into the school's film program, so he invented a daily comic strip entitled "Los Hooligans" with many of the characters based on his siblings – in particular, one of his sisters, Maricarmen. The comic proved to be quite successful, running for three years in the student newspaper The Daily Texan while Rodriguez continued to make short films.

Rodriguez grew up shooting action and horror short films on video, and editing on two VCRs. Finally, in the fall of 1990, his entry in a local film contest earned him a spot in the university's film program where he made the award-winning 16mm short, "Bedhead." The film chronicles the amusing misadventures of a young girl whose older brother sports an incredibly tangled mess of hair that she cannot tolerate. The rest of the short film is a humorous account of how the young girl tries to fix her brother's follicle monstrosity. 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 that offsets the action.

[edit] Career

This short film attracted enough attention to encourage him to seriously attempt a career as a filmmaker. He went on to shoot the action flick El Mariachi in Spanish, inspired by John Woo films. El Mariachi, which was shot for around $7,000 with money partially raised by volunteering in medical research studies, won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992. The film, originally intended for the Spanish-language low-budget home-video market, was distributed by Columbia Pictures in the United States. Rodriguez described his experiences making the film in his book Rebel Without a Crew. The book and film inspired legions of hopeful filmmakers to pick up cameras and make no-budget movies. While very few of those hopefuls went on to successful careers, the film and the book are widely considered important touchstones of the independent film movement of the 1990s. Many people realized for the first time that with only a little money and a lot of hard work and talent, it was possible to make a successful and popular film.

His next feature film was Desperado, a sequel to El Mariachi starring Antonio Banderas. The film introduced Salma Hayek to American audiences. He then collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on the vampire thriller From Dusk Till Dawn (he co-produced two sequels), and with Kevin Williamson on the teen horror sci-fi flick The Faculty.

In 2001, Rodriguez enjoyed his first $100,000,000 (USD) Hollywood hit with Spy Kids, which went on to become a trilogy, with the last film released in a crude form of 3D. A third "mariachi" film also appeared in late 2003, Once Upon a Time in Mexico which completed the Mariachi Trilogy. He operates a production company called Troublemaker Studios, formerly Los Hooligans Productions.

Rodriguez directed Sin City (2005), an adaptation of the Frank Miller Sin City comic books; Quentin Tarantino also directed a scene. During production in 2004, Rodriguez insisted that Miller receive a "co-director" credit with him 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" could share the director's credit (e.g. the Wachowski Brothers). 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." Unfortunately, by resigning from the DGA, Rodriguez was also forced to relinquish his director's seat on the film John Carter of Mars (2006) (at the time "A Princess of Mars" after the book on which it was based) 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.

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. Rodriguez is consequently in pre-production for a sequel, Sin City 2, which will be based on the Sin City story A Dame To Kill For and is scheduled for release in 2007. He has stated that he is interested in eventually adapting all of Miller's Sin City comic books.

Rodriguez also released The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 2005, a superhero-kid movie intended for the same younger audiences as his Spy Kids series. Shark Boy & Lava Girl was based on a story conceived by Rodriguez' then 7 year old son, Racer, who was given credit for the screenplay. The film was not a major success, having grossed 39 million dollars at the box office. No new 3D projects have been announced by the Troublemaker group, even though a mini-boom in polarized digital 3D films is coming from major studios in 2006.

Since 1998, he 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. While each has remained openly ethusiastic about the movie, other projects have been done first (Allred was instrumental in connecting Rodriguez with Frank Miller, leading to the production of Sin City). In 2004, Allred--while promoting his comic The Golden Plates-- announced [1] that a screenplay by George Huang was near completion, as well as that he and Rodriguez planned to shoot soon. Rodriguez has long stated that he would like for Allred to co-direct, the same way Frank Miller did for Sin City). In March 2006, it was announced that production on Sin City 2 would be postponed. Allred announced at the 2006 WonderCon that production would likely commence on Madman the Movie in Spring of 2006. Huang is actually 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.

He has a series of "Ten Minute School" segments, explaining his use of digital cameras and good cheap special effects to make movies profitable and even revealing his recipe for "puerco pilbil" based on the real "cochinita pibil". A strong supporter of digital film making, Rodriguez was introduced to this by none other than George Lucas who personally invited Rodriguez to the use of digital cameras at his headquarters.

[edit] Divorce

He announced in April 2006 that he and his wife Elizabeth Avellán have separated after 16 years of marriage. They have five children together- Rebel, Rocket, Rogue, Racer, and Rhiannon.

[edit] The "one man film crew" and "Mariachi-style"

Rodriguez not only has the usual 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, scientist, and sound editor on his films. This has earned him the nickname of "the one man film crew."

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." No Robert Rodriguez movie has ever been budgeted at more than 40 million dollars.

[edit] Collaborations

Rodriguez has a storied history of collaborations with Quentin Tarantino:

  • He did uncredited directing work on Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction when Tarantino was in front of the camera acting.
  • Tarantino has a cameo in Rodriguez's film Desperado.
  • Both filmmakers directed segments in the film Four Rooms.
  • He directed Tarantino's screenplay From Dusk Till Dawn, which Tarantino acted in. They both served as co-executive producers for the film's two sequels.
  • Tarantino came up with the title for (and was initially going to act in) Rodriguez's film Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
  • Rodriguez wrote some original music that was used in Tarantino's film Kill Bill: Vol. 2 and was reported to only have been paid one dollar for doing so. [2]
  • Tarantino directed a scene in Rodriguez's film Sin City (also reported to be paid one dollar in return) and loaned him some swords from Kill Bill to use for the Miho character.
  • They collaborated together on the 2007 double-feature Grind House.

He has also worked with actor Antonio Banderas on a number of films:

  • He cast Banderas as the lead role in his sequel, Desperado. Banderas would reprise the role eight years later for the final movie in the trilogy Once Upon a Time in Mexico
  • Banderas had the lead role in Rodriguez's segment in Four Rooms
  • The two also collaborated for the Spy Kids trilogy
  • Banderas has been promised a role in the upcoming Sin City sequels.

He has also collaborated with Kevin Williamson, filming the film-within-a-film Stab in Scream 2 (written by Williamson) and directed The Faculty based on his screenplay.

Rodriguez also co-directed Sin City with the original creator of the comic book series Frank Miller and is reported to do the same with the upcoming sequels.

Rodriguez composed the track "Avenging Angel" for the soundtrack of Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz; Wright also directed a faux trailer for Grind House.

[edit] Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1991 Bedhead
1992 El Mariachi Director, Producer, Writer
1994 Roadracers
1995 Desperado Director, Producer, Writer
Four Rooms Co-Director, Co-Writer
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn Director, Co-Producer
1998 The Faculty
2001 Spy Kids
2002 Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico Released in 2003, however it was shot in 2001 before the actor's strike of 2001
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2005 The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D
Sin City Co-Directed with Frank Miller and Quentin Tarantino)
2007 Sin City 2 Currently in Pre-production; originally scheduled for 2006 release date, but pushed back to a 2008 release date
Grindhouse: "Planet Terror" Currently in Post-production
2008 Machete (film) Director, Producer, Writer 40 mintues of the film reportedly shot. To be released direct-to-DVD with Grindhouse movies.
TBA Madman Executive Producer Currently in pre-production

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