![]() ![]() “It was a good warm-up to start building up crews,” he says. Rodriguez returned to Austin for his next film-1998’s body-snatcher horror picture, The Faculty-and began assembling homegrown talent. ![]() We were driving around, trying to find areas that look like Texas, and there was nothing, and I just thought, ‘We’d find these locations so quickly down there in Austin.’ It was ridiculous how long we were going, and it still all looked like Candyland.” “I mean, From Dusk Till Dawn took place in Texas, and it was being shot in L.A.-we were trying to find Texas-looking locations. Bush and Ann Richards used to fly in and out of Austin. “The whole time, I was just wanting to come back to Texas and shoot there,” Rodriguez recalls from his office at Troublemaker Studios, which is built on a patch of land that once housed the aircrafts that former governors George W. That truck is driven, in the episodic television remake of the original film, premiering on March 11 on Rodriguez’s El Rey Network, by Robert Patrick, who replaces Harvey Keitel in the role of the faithless preacher who learns, when things get ugly on the other side of the board, to become “a mean motherfucking servant of God.” Also being replaced, in the version of From Dusk Till Dawn Rodriguez is filming in and around Austin: California, where he shot the original film in 1995-the only theatrically released feature that the director ever shot in Los Angeles. Cotrona, two young actors who carry some bank-robber cool as they hide in the back of the truck. It’s one of the tensest moments in From Dusk Till Dawn, the 1996 film that Rodriguez directed off of a Quentin Tarantino script.īack then, Richie and Seth were Tarantino and George Clooney-who had yet to take a leading role in a movie at that point-but now, they’re played by Zane Holtz and D.J. The flea market’s closed on weekdays, and the dusty exterior has been converted into something more useful, at least to a filmmaker busy trying to expand on a story he told once before: it’s a border crossing, and the infamous Gecko Brothers, Richie and Seth, are attempting to sneak into Mexico while hiding in the back of Jacob Fuller’s mobile home. He’s at a roadside flea market off of Highway 290-the sort of access-road swap meet that dots highways throughout Texas-and at the moment, there are no old copies of Texas Monthly or collections of Cowboys memorabilia for sale. It’s a warm January Monday just outside of Austin, Texas, and Robert Rodriguez is revisiting the past. ![]()
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