Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino are teaming up to present Grindhouse a full blown classic-style exploitation film set to open next April 6th. The concept is that each director will make their own film and the two will be released in a single feature, complete with faux ads and trailers during the intermission.
According to ComingSoon.net, rough footage of the film was premiered at Comic-con this weekend and it apparently has horror fans all aflutter.
Rodriguez' film will run first, a zombine movie starring Freddy Rogriguez and Rose McGowan. ComingSoon described one of the previewed scenes as follows:
"Rose's character, Cherry, had an unfortunate scrape and has lost her right leg above the knee. In a later scene, Rodriguez offers McGowan a gift – a heavy-duty machine gun that clips onto her stump. Now with a machine gun as a leg, McGowan mows down several zombies with one, effective round-kick spray!" You can cruise over to ComingSoon.net for more grindhouse descriptions of the premired footage...if you can stomach it.
Tarantino's movie, a slasher flick starring Kurt Russell (yeah, you read that right) as "Stuntman Mike" will be titled Death Proof. It will also star Rosario Dawson and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Rodriguez boasted that his movie was filmed entirely at night and that he was in talks with John Carpenter concerning the movie's score.
Tarantino assured fans at Comic-con that this is no half-baked double feature, but will be two full blow movies for the price of one. For some reason I can't see movie theaters getting behind that idea.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Kurt-Russell-To-Star-In-Tarantino-Slasher-Flick-3026.html
