From Cinemablend.com
The greatest news of the morning is about much the anticipated movie Grindhouse, Robert Rodriguez (Planet Terror) and Quentin Tarantino (Death Proof). Today, in an exclusive interview with SXSW, Rodriguez reveals information about some secret footage form Planet Terror and his new idea for a solo movie, a spin-off after a character in one of the Fuax trailers shown in Grindhouse. Read on to find out which machete wielding bad-ass it is?

According to Cinema Blend?s coverage of SXSW, the big scoop of the day came when Robert revealed that he?s planning a solo movie for actor Danny Trejo?s Machete character. If you?ve seen any of the kickass trailers for Grindhouse, then you?ve seen Trejo as Machete, a bad ass dude with, well, two machetes. Robert?s answer was, surprisingly, absolutely. He is doing a Machete spin-off movie, and it?s likely going to be direct to DVD. Rodriguez seemed pretty adamant about this, as if the film is already a done deal.

Of course one of the questions Robert almost always gets asked whenever he?s locked in a room with a bunch of movie geeks is whether or not he?ll ever do sequels to Once Upon a Time in Mexico He says, it?s not out of the question. It?s still something he wants to do. His plan was originally to make it the first of a trilogy of movies following Johnny Depp?s blind gunman character. Apparently he even cut fake trailers for sequels using footage from the first movie and showed it to Johnny Depp. Rodriguez says Depp was all in.

Eventually, the talk turned to the future of film, and where Rodriguez saw himself as part of the whole 3-D movement. Robert?s response was, pretty simply, that he started it. He takes credit for resurrecting 3-D and bringing it back to theaters with Spy Kids 3D and Sharkboy and Lava Girl, and he says Hollywood is all over him to do more of it. Though Planet Terror isn?t in 3-D, expect many of his future movies to be completely 3-D productions. James Cameron has competition.

Planet Terror Footage
Amidst all this talk of grindhouse cinema in general, Rodriguez managed to fit in footage from his grindhouse movie Planet Terror. He says the movie isn?t finished, apparently they?re still in sound mixing, but what he showed us was beyond awesome.

First he showed us a scene you?re likely to see in theaters when the movie hits. It?s a freakin kickass road-warrior zombie-fighting scene in which all of his heroes band together and ride down the road in a convoy, blasting zombies and mowing them down with their big truck from hell. Apparently this takes place shortly after Planet Terror?s simulated missing reel. See, Robert is really set on simulating the whole grindhouse experience, screwups and all. The film has been written as if an entire reel is missing. One moment everyone hates each other, the next there?s a jump and everyone has become friends, losers are suddenly awesome heroes, and the attacking zombies are about to be very dead. As Robert says, the section of a movie where everyone gears up to start kicking ass is boring. So he?s giving you the setup and then going straight to the payoff, skipping all the boring junk in between.

The second bit of Grindhouse footage we got a look at it is something you may never ever see. Frankly, there?s little chance it?ll get past the MPAA, not if they want a Rated-R. The footage is a fake movie trailer directed by Eli Roth, intended to run right before the actual movie begins. Eli tackles the one holiday never done up right by horror: Thanksgiving. Eli Roth?s Thanksgiving involves an ax wielding pilgrim who runs around town separating thankful Americans from their bodies. It?s also stuffed with all kinds of really sick sex and nudity. The whole thing peaks when a trampolining naked woman does the splits, and uh? well? comes down on a very large knife. Ouch. Yeah, no way the MPAA is letting any of this past. Wait for the DVD. With that, class was out. That?s it from the SXSW Grindhouse.