Screenwriter Alvaro Rodriguez discusses his current TV series From Dusk Till Dawn, which is based on Robert Rodriguez’s 1996 action film of the same name.
Alvaro says his new series – which aired on the El Rey Network and is currently available on Netflix and DVD – is a continuation of the film version of From Dusk Till Dawn, which was written by Quentin Tarantino.
“The first season, 10 episodes, takes the original film and kind of extrapolates that 90 minutes over 10 episodes and expands the storyline and adds new characters, and gives us different backstory kind of stuff, and takes it a little bit further than the movie did.”
The series is shot exclusively in and around Austin Texas, according to Alvaro, himself a Texas native who has been writing since childhood.
On working with Robert Rodriguez, his first cousin, Alvaro said he feels fortunate to have gone to high school and college with Robert, and continued to learn a great deal of the business from him.
“I learned so much about filmmaking and storytelling from him, and I always felt he was an incredibly visual writer. He had a comic strip when we were at the University of Texas called Los Hooligans, which became the name of his production company.”
Watch the full episode to find out how Machete came together as a standalone movie after beginning as a fake trailer for the two-part feature Grindhouse, which was written by Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.
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