Machete Kills

Machete Kills
Machete Kills
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Robert Rodriguez
Screenplay by	Kyle Ward
Story by	Robert Rodriguez; Marcel Rodriguez;
Produced by	Robert Rodriguez; Rick Schwartz; Sergei Bespalov; Alexander Rodnyansky; Aaron Kaufman; Iliana Nikolic;
Starring	Danny Trejo; Michelle Rodriguez; Sofía Vergara; Amber Heard; Antonio Banderas; Cuba Gooding Jr.; Walt Goggins; William Sadler; Demián Bichir; Mel Gibson;
Cinematography	Robert Rodriguez
Edited by	Robert Rodriguez; Rebecca Rodriguez;
Music by	Carl Thiel; Robert Rodriguez;
Production; companies	AR Films; Demarest Films; Quick Draw Productions; Aldamisa Entertainment; Overnight Productions; 1821 Pictures;
Distributed by	Open Road Films
Release dates	September 19, 2013 (Austin Fantastic Fest); October 11, 2013 (United States);
Running time	108 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English; Spanish;
Budget	$20 million
Box office	$17.5 million

Machete Kills (also known as Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills) is a 2013 American action exploitation film directed by Robert Rodriguez, with a screenplay by Kyle Ward, from a story by Robert and Marcel Rodriguez.^[4]^[5] Starring Danny Trejo, who returns in his role as the eponymous character, it is a sequel to Machete (2010), and is the third film based on a fake trailer in Grindhouse (2007). Michelle Rodriguez, Tom Savini, Electra and Elise Avellan, Felix Sabates, and Jessica Alba reprise their roles from the first film, and are joined by series newcomers Mel Gibson, Demián Bichir, Amber Heard, Sofía Vergara, Lady Gaga, Antonio Banderas, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Hudgens, Alexa Vega, William Sadler, Marko Zaror, and Charlie Sheen (credited by his birth name of "Carlos Estévez"). The film follows the titular ex-federal (Trejo) as he is recruited by the U.S. President (Sheen) to stop an arms dealer (Gibson) and a revolutionary (Bichir).^[6]

Machete Kills was released in the United States by Open Road Films on October 11, 2013.

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