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2Days at the World's Coolest Studio 0123456789 TROUBLEMAKER STUDIOS ESSENTIAL TROUBLEMAKER * The best movies from Rodriguez’s rebel base El Mariachi (1992) Rodriguez funded his Office space: first film by becoming Troublemaker HQ is a medical guinea pig; far cooler than your he ended up casting average workspace. From busk till dawn: wardmate Peter Robert Rodriguez And far bigger — this often composes the is reception. Marquardt as the scores for his movies. villain. Despite the $7,000 budget, it’s mpire has been invited by Rodriguez a juicy chunk of action to spend two access-all-areas days on pulp with hyper-kinetic the lot (from dusk Wednesday till dawn camera moves and Saturday, to be precise), with the multi- a rich imagination. hyphenate filmmaker as our guide. This Danny Trejo? No. DAYS AT THE WORLD’s Eis especially nice of him, considering when we first meet he’s operating on less than two hours sleep, having just jetted back from a meeting in LA. “I try to stay on a regular schedule, but Predators is shifting to nights soon so we’ll all be going COOLEST STUDIO nocturnal anyway,” he smiles. “Besides, I like working at night. No temptations, no-one you can call, no place you can go. So you’re like, ‘I may as well blaze through an edit, or pick up 2 ...And you won’t find it in LA. Robert Rodriguez throws open the place he the guitar and figure out some music until the sun comes up...’” built himself in Texas, granting Empire exclusive access to the home of Sin City, Aside from puffy eyes, there’s no indication that the Mexican-American (born in San Antonio) is close to Spy Kids, and the upcoming Predators and Machete: Troublemaker Studios meltdown. His assistant trails him, holding a to-do list with Words: Nick De Semlyen he reception area at Troublemaker forgive me, for I hath created a prosthetic of Quentin Desperado (1995) Portrait: Rico Torres “What we do here is big guerrilla Studios does not resemble that of your Tarantino’s penis melting,” perhaps. Or, “Lord, I repeatedly El Mariachi’s follow- average movie-making facility. For one, draped a python across Salma Hayek’s bust. Ave Maria.” filmmaking, giant home movies. up is slicker, with the art on the walls is notably hipper, Or maybe just, “The Adventures Of Sharkboy And Lavagirl a bigger (but still including an ultra-rare From Dusk Till 3-D. Soz.” When the budget’s small, titchy) budget and TDawn poster by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta (only five in Occasional U-rated misfire aside, Troublemaker remains an English-language existence), a lurid painting called Shotgun Messenger by the coolest studio in the world, a hotbed of creativity where everyone just has to be more talk track. Antonio George Yepes, and a sepia mugshot of George Clooney. genre flicks — some family-friendly, some anything but — Banderas replaces Then there are the toys: an explosion of movie memorabilia are conceived and crafted far from the prying eyes of Hell-A’s creative.” Robert Rodriguez Carlos Gallardo as the and geeky gizmos that would make Harry Knowles weep. studio suits. Based in northern Austin, Texas, it’s the name guitar-strumming hero. (And probably has, since he lives around the corner.) behind releases like Grindhouse (the one with the melty the girth of a phone book. Outside, on a marvellously gory So cool that James To the right, beneath an ornate table, a pair of the gun- penis), Sin City, the Spy Kids trilogy, From Dusk Till Dawn killing-ground set (and across the road at Richard Linklater’s Cameron cheered packing guitar cases from Desperado (we never get round to (the one with the snakey bust) and a batch of exciting Austin Studios), Predators are running amuck for the the big explosion checking whether they’re still crammed full of munitions). in-development projects. And Troublemaker’s name is Rodriguez-penned threequel; we spend most of our first day when he first saw it. To the left, pistol in hand, an intimidating life-sized statue well-earned: the studio makes the big boys in Hollywood observing the mayhem and giddily exploring the creatures- Danny Trejo? Yes, of Sin City’s Marv. Here, the candy-coloured power-suits look bad, and not just in terms of lobby decoration, creating ’n’-weapons workshop. Upstairs, at Troublemaker Digital, as assassin Navajas, from Spy Kids; there, a forlorn-looking skeleton slumped cutting-edge cinema on a budget that would just about cover the studio’s visual effects hub, scuzzy exploitation homage who takes on a bullet- in a chair. And, perhaps most eye-catching of all, a wooden the salad buffet on a Burbank soundstage. Machete is in post-production (the artists are currently proofed car full of confessional booth, which has been shipped here from “I’m still making the same backyard movies I made when creating a fake Nintendo Wii game that will be played baddies with knives its original home, a Mexican church. One wonders what I was 12,” says Robert Rodriguez, Troublemaker’s mogul. by Lindsay Lohan’s saucy socialite, April). And several — and nearly wins. *The Hooligans until 2000 studio was called Los admissions may have been whispered in there. “Oh Father, “Except now they get released!” (1) AVELLAN JOAQUIN more upcoming films, including Spy Kids 4 and sci-fi epic [[1L]] EMPIRE APRIL 2010 empireonline.com Subscribe at www.empireonline.com/sub APRIL 2010 EMPIRE [[2R]] 0123456789 TROUBLEMAKER STUDIOS From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) Part gangster movie, part bloody horror, part ode to Salma Hayek’s midriff, this first team-up between Rodriguez and Tarantino (not counting the latter’s cameo in Desperado) turned Spy Kids (2001) George Clooney from We won’t lie, we’re TV pin-up to movie star. not fans of most of Danny Trejo? Yes, Rodriguez’s kids’ films. as the Titty Twister’s But the original Spy manager, Razor Charlie. Kids (possiably inspired Miller time: Bruce Willis (top), Jessica Diesel power: by the Richard Grieco Alba and Nick Stahl’s The greenscreen ‘classic’, Teen Agent) is blue-looking Yellow stage doubling a solid blast of silliness, Bastard (left) get the as car (and noir treatment on Sin chopper) park with hi-tech gizmos City’s greenscreen. on Grindhouse. galore. Rodriguez is a family man through and through; oddly, Nerveracker (which Rodriguez describes as “my Blade the screenplay and directs, but produces and edits too, as in the morning and ask me to go get him something. I’d be this may be his most Runner, set in Mexico in 2085”) are in gestation. well as frequently operating the camera and composing the like, ‘Robert, I’m 30 minutes from the studio. Can’t it wait?’ personal film. Just as well, then, that he’s a multi-tasking demon. score. Even the studio’s cartoon logo, a smirking chavo, Jordan Ladd’s stunt And he’d huff a little bit and call someone else. But it’s all Danny Trejo? Yes, “It seems chaotic, but I’ve always been able to juggle,” he is a character from Los Hooligans, the comic strip he drew mannequin earns her about adapting to his way of working. He wants to get the as Uncle Machete. keep on Death Proof. says. “Actually, I can literally juggle too! But I’d hate to while at the University Of Texas. It’s this steely focus and Churchill dog standing shot done; that’s all that counts.” put all my energy into a project then find out an actor’s DIY ethos that led Rodriguez to sell his body to science by just off camera. The Faculty (1998) not available and have to start over. This way, I can shrug in his early 20s (he underwent medical experiments at odriguez’s legend paints him as a one- Invasion Of The Body and shift something over into its place. Nerveracker was a lab called Pharmaco to fund his first film, El Mariachi, man band, a lone wolf like the black- Snatchers for the MTV all ready to go, down to the costumes — I’m actually and still bears two scars on his arm), that compelled him clad hero of his Mexico trilogy. Empire’s generation, Rodriguez’s wearing the hero’s jacket right now — but the guy I had to turn part of his house into an edit bay, ‘Los Cryptos’. time at Troublemaker, though, reveals high-school movie is an in mind got booked up so we’re waiting for him. And in And that means his average working day starts while it’s much more of a family affair. You underrated treat. The the meantime I’ve gotten ideas on how to improve it. We he’s still in pyjamas. “My favourite place to write is in bed, may be able to name at least a few of Rodriguez’s five eclectic cast includes R try to hit every project a little bit every day.” with my laptop on my chest,” he shrugs. “Once you’re up children — Racer, Rogue, Rocket, Rebel and Rhiannon — Robert Patrick, Harry A Robert Rodriguez film is just that: he not only writes you’ll play with the dogs, clean your sock drawer, anything since they’re often also his collaborators (Rebel’s the one who Knowles, Jon Stewart gets his head blown off in Planet Terror; Rogue gets a story and the director’s sister, credit for Sharkboy). But you probably haven’t heard of their Tina, who recently mother, even though Elizabeth Avellan is as crucial as anyone cameoed in Inglourious “Our philosophy here is, ‘Keep it in keeping the studio going.
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