It may be 25 years old (I know!) but the legacy of From Dusk Til Dawn is still alive and well and the many fans are still (blood)thirsty for more… and we may be getting it.
The movie from top-of-their-game Quentin Tarantino (writer) and Robert Rodriguez (director) is a genre-bending classic B-movie which sees criminal brothers Seth and Ritchie Gecko (George Clooney and Tarantino) fleeing over the Mexican border and resting up in a bar that happens to be filled with vampires. It’s a gory, hilarious, exciting thrill-ride of a movie and an absolute must-watch.
But the movie wasn’t the end of the tale as there was a video game afterward which saw Seth on a boat full of vampires (it’s pretty bad) and then there was a TV series based on the movie from Rodriquez which, despite being a hit and being pretty solid, was canceled after three seasons. Oh, and there was a movie prequel and a sequel – they weren’t great either.
Now, we may be in for more small-screen universe building according to Rodriguez.
Speaking about the live-action show mentioned above, he said: “Over here, I have my own television network [El Rey]. So I had a television network here. And I needed to create programming, so Quentin [Tarantino] and I still control the rights to it. So I went, ‘Oh, wow, I’d love to expand the story of Santánico Pandemonium, and the whole Aztec vampire lore for my network’,” Rodriguez explains.
Santánico Pandemonium was the vampire played unforgettably by Selma Hayek in the original movie (above) and then played by Eiza González in the series.
But then he gets to the juicy part: “And now we’re looking towards, we’re developing an animated Dusk till Dawn.”
He hints that the animated series will follow on from the cancelled series and will delve further into the world of these Aztec vampires and, as a massive fan of this franchise, I look forward to seeing what it does… animation wouldn’t have been where I saw the story going next, but it could lead to mind-bending stories and visuals and that would be right up Rodriguez’s street.
What say you all?
Source: SFX
Marc
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