Danny Trejo is currently garnering loads of attention for “Machete”, which seems to be every bit as exciting, blood-thirsty and crowd-pleasing as this trailer suggests.
Trejo has plied his trade for years now as a bit-part (but always memorable) player in pretty much every film Robert Rodriguez has made, as well as Heat, Anaconda and Con Air (IMDb lists 195 acting roles for him!). Now, off the back of Machete’s buzz, producers now seem to think that Trejo can be a viable lead and he is now in discussions to take a lead role in Tarantula, an indie biker-thriller to be directed by Oley Sassone. Erin Cummings is in talks to appear alongside him.
Heat Vision give us the lowdown on the plot:-
The story centers on a woman (Cummings) who breaks away from a tight-knit biker gang to start a new life but finds that escape is not so easy. Trejo plays the self-styled leader of the gang looking for the woman as well as revenge for his brother’s death.
Oley Sassone is a fairly seasoned television director and the script is being written by experienced construction co-ordinator but novice screenwriter John Kersey. The budget is being kept very low, around $2.5m and it therefore remains to be seen whether the project eventually earns itself a proper theatrical release.
