Robert Rodriguez took the stage with “El Mariachi”. The stylish action game made history because it was made for just $7,000. Now that the success was behind him, the director would probably follow up a few years later with the much better budgeted version “Desperado”, starring Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, among others. Today it is considered a cult actor and produced a sequel with ‘Sometime in Mexico’ – including a cast that was significantly expanded to include Johnny Depp, Enrique Iglesias and Willem Dafoe. That was twenty years ago now.
Since then, Rodriguez has entertained the idea of making another film in the series. The magazine He now revealed that this is still the case. He would like to return to the world of ‘Desperado’. However, there is a problem for another film starring Antonio Banderas as a murderer with a guitar case.
In reality, there is too terrible gun violence
“It’s very difficult for me to do anything with guns these days,” says the director. He refers to the gun violence in the US, which has “gone out of control”: Even though these films are very exaggerated and somewhat fun, they are simply difficult to make. There are always terrible shootings and you think, ‘I don’t know if I can do anything with guns responsibly.'”
He still really likes the old movies. They are still entertaining, in fact he believes they were ahead of their time. They are like “Spy Kids for adults,” he points out parallels with his other successful series recently continued for Netflix. After all, the ‘Desperado’ films also contain many gadgets such as guitar cases that fire missiles.
But in the end the problem remains: The glorification of violence, which is part of the films’ tone, would be “difficult for him to implement responsibly” today. said the filmmaker The cover. So it seems fans still have little hope for a fourth film in the series.