“Quentin writes the best characters in the world,” Rodriguez said at the post-screening Q&A for the first episode of “ From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series.” “To have his characters for the first time on television, you’ve got to give them room to breathe and live.”Īt a nearly full Vimeo theater Saturday afternoon, Rodriguez presented the first original scripted series for the writer/director’s recently launched El Rey Network. But to Robert Rodriguez, it’s so much more. To some it’s just a description of the SXSW night life. It’s the start of a fruitful collaboration between two important modern filmmakers. It’s a jumping off point for a young George Clooney as a leading man and an actor who makes the right connections. In honor of the legacy of the original From Dusk Till Dawn, we present its funniest scene, in which Cheech Marin as Chet Pussy keeps finding new adjectives to put in front of 'pussy.' Enjoy.To some, the original 1996 film version of “From Dusk Till Dawn” is an entertaining B movie. But sometimes what the people want is not best for them. Rodriguez is behind this series, and if there's one thing he knows it's what the people want. Most damning of all, it looks kinda like a True Blood ripoff, something no one (hopefully) asked for. It's going to be launched on Rodriguez's own El Rey network and a trailer has just been released.įrom the looks of it, the TV show will be a lot like the original (prepare to hear George Clooney's 'Everybody BE COOL' speech again), except with actors who are CW hot and spout plot points ('You have the entire state of Texas looking for us!') and camerawork that looks like it was run through a high-contrast Instagram filter. Now, in this 'golden age' of television that repurposes Dracula as some kind of steampunk social avenger, we're getting a whole Dusk Till Dawn series. We know how that went, and it was just okay. But remaking From Dusk Till Dawn is like studiously replicating old grindhouse movies that no one thought much about the first time around. Basically, a lot of gross-out violence mixed with lewd comedy that had no real point except to get its audience off. (Actually, it was kind of like Spring Breakers that way.) It indulged both Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's basest impulses. It was a kind of trashy classic, something you watched on a sun-baked afternoon on the couch and then felt filthy about. Let's get one thing clear: The original From Dusk Till Dawn wasn't really good.

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