The latest on Rodriguez

Popular director Robert Rodriguez has been churning out one film after another for the past couple of decades. In the midst of wrapping up production on the anticipated film Machete with co-director Ethan Maniquis, the folks over at Empire and The Playlist got the latest on what the director has on his plate. Here’s a few excerpts from the new interview, the first paragraph from Rodriguez and the second from his producer Elizabeth Avellan.:

“But I hate to pit all my energy into a project and then find out an actor’s not available and have to start over. ‘Nervewrackers’ was all ready to go, down to the costumes — I’m actually wearing the hero’s jacket right now — but the [actor] I had in mind got booked so we’re waiting for him. And in the meantime, I’ve got ideas on how to improve it. We try to hit every project a little bit every day.”

“There was one point where ‘The Jetsons’ was in place here,” Avellan said. “That would have been a much bigger project then we’ve ever done; you’d have to create a whole world from scratch. Right now it’s not in the cards. What we’re good at is keeping the budget low, by cutting out the paper work and keeping the effects in house. Where ’300′ and ‘The Spirit’ cost $70-90$ million each, we made ‘Sin City’ for half that.”

Sin City 2 has been on the back burner for years ever since the 2005 release of the first film. Nervewrackers is another picture that’s been smoldering on the development pot for Rodriguez for awhile now too. Although The Jetsons was to be his next alleged project, it thankfully does not look like that’s happening. Now it’s just a mere question of which film he’s going to take priority on first after Machete, which comes out on April 16th.