Desperado,
From Dusk til Dawn, and the S
py Kids Trilogy the 52-year-old Mexican American from Texas helped Latin legends like Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas, and
Danny Trejo become working actors.
Rodriguez is a pioneer for diversity in Hollywood and his latest Netflix film
We Can Be Heroes is a representation of how much he has continued to accomplish. Read how Rodriguez created an “organically diverse” superhero team and used his children as inspiration. “We Can Be Heroes” is an action comedy-drama that follows children who team up and work together to save the world and their parents after an alien invader kidnaps Earth’s superheroes.
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.
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AÂ hot topic in the movie industry in recent years has been the growing shift from traditional theatrical releases to at-home distribution via internet streaming servicesâespecially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the effect it has had on theaters.
Director Robert Rodriguez, who is known in part for the âSpy Kidsâ series and 2005âs âThe Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl,â is embracing that change with his new film, âWe Can Be Heroes,â which premieres on Netflix on Christmas Day.
âI donât think I wouldâve done a movie just for theatrical,â Rodriguez said, acknowledging that younger audiences tend to rewatch films like this. Thatâs a problem when it comes to theaters and kids can only see a film onceâmaybe a couple more times if their parents allowâbefore home release, he said.