We Can Be Heroes is set in the same world and the characters of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
are in the movie (pictured above played by Taylor Dooley and JJ Dashnaw), they’re not taking centre stage this time around – it’s their children who are tasked to save the earth.
In fact,
We Can Be Heroes wasn’t even initially supposed to take place in this particular world: “It started as its own story,” writer and director Robert Rodriguez tells us. “Netflix hired me to write a new original film that was in that space of empowered children. So I came up with what was like a ‘Little Kid Avengers’ story and came up with a tonne of little kids with special powers.