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Much of the cast would be made up of familiar faces from the filmmakers' previous projects, including Harvey Keitel ( Reservoir Dogs), Juliette Lewis ( Natural Born Killers), Salma Hayek ( Desperado), Cheech Marin ( Desperado) and Danny Trejo ( Desperado).

“Since he plays an ER doctor on television,” added Rodriguez, “I wanted him to come and portray someone who sends people to the ER.” I thought he was really neat,” Tarantino noted in the making of From Dusk Till Dawn short. I thought he was like this kind of cool Robert Mitchum character on ER. “I had just started watching George on ER and really liked him. Watch George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino in 'From Dusk Till Dawn'

#FROM DUSK TILL DAWN CAST MOVIE CAST TV#

George Clooney, then a TV star thanks to ER, would take the role of Seth Gecko while Tarantino played his younger brother, Richie. You’ll already get the horror base, so don’t call it a horror movie.’” The star power of both filmmakers on the same project finally pushed things into motion. Back then, they were like, ‘Eh, we’re trying to bring in more audience. Today, you make a horror film, and they go, ‘It’s a horror film!’ and they underline it. “Horror wasn’t so big at that time,” Rodriguez admitted to Yahoo! “The studio didn’t even want to call it a horror film. Rodriguez was excited to meld his vision alongside Tarantino’s, while also delving into the horror genre. Suddenly it became avant-garde, it’s two movies in one! We said, ‘Let’s go make it now while things are hot because they’ll never let us do it again.’' Originally they thought it was weird, you turn the page and there’s vampires! It makes no sense. Then Pulp Fiction hit and everybody wanted to make Quentin’s script, it didn’t matter. “It was unsellable,” Rodriguez recalled of From Dusk Till Dawn during a interview with Entertainment Weekly. Enter Robert Rodriguez, a close friend of Tarantino’s, who had also found recent success thanks to the films El Mariachi and Desperado. Though Tarantino’s fingerprints were all over the project, he wanted to focus on acting in the movie rather than directing it. Watch George Clooney Battle Vampire Salma Hayek in 'From Dusk Till Dawn' Once across the border, the group finds itself stranded at a seedy strip club, whose inhabitants turn out to be vampires. They thought it was too vulgar and violent.”įrom Dusk Till Dawn’s story followed a pair of criminal brothers as they take a family hostage and flee to Mexico. “It was initially rejected everywhere,” Kurtzman explained. Even as the filmmaker sold his scripts to True Romance and Natural Born Killers - and further broke into the mainstream with his groundbreaking Pulp Fiction - From Dusk Till Dawn remained on the back burner. Soon, Tarantino was a rising star, as Reservoir Dogs became a hugely successful independent film. QT would write our script and I would do the FX for Reservoir Dogs.” “We didn’t have much money to pay him, but it was enough for Quentin to leave his job as a video clerk to write our project,” Kurtzman noted, adding one other important fact.

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