Danny Trejo is at Comic-Con this afternoon with director (and cousin) Robert Rodriguez to pump up interest in Machete, the film Fox releases in early September. But Trejo has more on his mind tonight than slinging free tacos to the geek contingent (which he is doing). Trejo is using the momentum from Machete, his recent appearance in Predators and the upcoming Spy Kids 4 to begin generating his own branded action vehicles. Might the reformed tough guy—who did hard prison time as a teenager before transforming himself into a drug counselor and finding his way accidentally into a movie career that spans nearly 200 films—be on the verge of a leading man career as the Latino Charles Bronson? Trejo has completed his first film, the Gil Medina-directed Vengeance. Trejo self-financed that action vehicle and when he couldn't get the deal he wanted at Afm, made a plan to give...
- 7/23/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Get this: Danny Trejo is putting down the machetes and picking up a basketball. No, he isn't gearing to play a basketball player -- we haven't slipped into an alternate universe yet -- but he is looking to bring one player's true story to the big screen. Deadline Hollywood reports that he's going to self-finance a sports drama --Ambition -- about Utah Jazz player Paul Millsap and his uncle/agent DeAngelo Simmons.
As the real story goes, Simmons' sister and her children moved back to Louisiana, and he helped keep the kids "away from the streets." One, Paul, turned "into a 6'8", 250 pound rebounding machine," and Simmons became his agent, brokering a four-year deal for his nephew. Simmons had a small role in Trejo's Vengeance, which must be how this whole plan came to be.
Yeah, so The Blind Side gets popular and Trejo decides to tell another inspirational story in the same vein.
As the real story goes, Simmons' sister and her children moved back to Louisiana, and he helped keep the kids "away from the streets." One, Paul, turned "into a 6'8", 250 pound rebounding machine," and Simmons became his agent, brokering a four-year deal for his nephew. Simmons had a small role in Trejo's Vengeance, which must be how this whole plan came to be.
Yeah, so The Blind Side gets popular and Trejo decides to tell another inspirational story in the same vein.
- 4/5/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
You know that face. That’s actor Danny Trejo the former ex-con, drug addict and boxer who turned his life around and became a drug counselor and then an actor appearing, since 1983, in a staggering 180 movies and TV shows, with another 19 films currently in post-production, including this summer’s Predators, and and lead role in Machete, coming out later this year directed by his cousin, director Robert Rodriquez. The guy works harder than Clifton Powell. Well, now add film producer to his list of credits, with Trejo announcing that he will produce and self finance the film Ambition, which tells the story of Utah Jazz player Paul Millsap and his uncle and agent DeAngelo Simmons.
The film deals with Simmons, a former college basketball player who finds himself in over his head when his sister moves back to Louisiana with her four sons to keep them away from the mean city streets.
The film deals with Simmons, a former college basketball player who finds himself in over his head when his sister moves back to Louisiana with her four sons to keep them away from the mean city streets.
- 4/5/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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