Within that time period, all of this is happening. And one thing I think the seasons will all have in common is they all take place from dusk until dawn.
Now, we’re really getting to pay it off, and it’s a blast. This is really setting up a world that I always wanted to explore, and tried to hint at in the first film. They weren’t really tied into the mythology that we’re telling. That’s where the fun really comes in, exploring things that were only just ideas that we had, way back when. We wouldn’t want to make seasons based on the film, but off something that has a much wider, deeper storytelling.
We want to retell it in a way to expand it, so that when we go into the next seasons, it makes more sense. It’s much more like reading a novel versus what might have been in the Reader’s Digest version, cut down. If you’re familiar with the film, you will be continually surprised with what you see. Everybody is drawn to that place for a reason. But then, the stories have completely different motivations.
What really went on down there, fans of the movie never would have seen. In the movie, you only heard about things like the bank heist in Abilene, or the break-out from the penitentiary and the trip to the Kahuna Burger. RODRIGUEZ: It’s a complete retelling of the original story for a bit, but then it goes into other areas. So, are you retelling the story of the movie From Dusk Till Dawn, or are you telling an entirely different story? He’s on top of his game right now, and he’s creating the make-up effects again for us. Greg Nicotero, who did make-up effects on the first From Dusk Till Dawn, is back. I also thought it would attract a lot of talent because people love that movie. And Carlos Coto, our showrunner, and I have just had a blast making this a really rich experience, so that it feels like something that can go on and on for seasons. You go places we only hinted at, in the television show.
If the film was the short story, this series is the novel. So, I really wanted to go back and enrich that whole experience. I delved a little deeper into Mesoamerican mythologies, and Aztec and Mayan mythologies, and where a vampire culture could have existed back then, and found fascinating stuff that I only hinted at it a little bit in the movie. When I’d first gotten Quentin’s script, it took place in this bar in Mexico. We love From Dusk Till Dawn!” And there was so much that I wanted to explore in that movie that I didn’t get to. It was one of the favorite movies that I did in the past, with Quentin, that people still come up to us about and say, “We watch From Dusk Till Dawn whenever it’s on television. RODRIGUEZ: I thought that would be a great way to introduce an audience to the network because it was a name that was known. Why did you decide to do From Dusk Till Dawn as the first series? Check out what he had to say after the jump. He also talked about which of his other films he’d like to see in as a TV series, the possibility of bringing Sin City to television, shooting Sin City 2 in 3D, to completely immerse audiences in the world, and that Nerveracker will be his next film, followed by Fire and Ice. As his first original series, Rodriguez is adapting his hit movie From Dusk Till Dawn into a TV series, which will premiere on March 11 th, and stars Don Johnson, Wilmer Valderrama, Robert Patrick, Adrianne Palicki, DJ Cotrona, Jake Busey, Lane Garrison and Zane Holtz.ĭuring the El Rey portion of the TCA Press Tour, Robert Rodriguez talked about the ideas behind El Rey, why he decided to do From Dusk Till Dawn as the network’s first original TV series, that each season will take place during the time period from dusk until dawn, how the story will be a partial retelling that then veers off into entirely new territory, and transitioning a movie into an episodic series. Conceived seven months ago and launched 27 days ago, having a filmmaker at the center of the network allows for an assembly of top talent that is unprecedented for a such a new network. El Rey is an English-language, general entertainment network, born out of the mind of prolific feature filmmaker, Robert Rodriguez.