Grind House is a film expected to be released in April 2007. It will consist of two segments, roughly an hour-long each. Project Terror will be a zombie film written and directed by Robert Rodríguez. Death Proof will be a slasher film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. In March of 2006, Rodríguez's segment began shooting in Austin, Texas.

Between the two segments will be trailers advertising fake films. Tarantino has stated that they plan to shoot fake trailers for a blaxploitation movie, a kung-fu movie, a sexploitation movie and a spaghetti western trailer. The only one he has confirmed is the sexploitation, which will be for a film titled Cowgirls in Sweden. Also, in an interview with Danny Trejo, he said that he will be in a fake trailer for a movie called Machete (possibly a parody of sorts on the character he played in Spy Kids of the same name)http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/features.php?id=211. Eli Roth and Edgar Wright have been confirmed to direct trailers.

The film will star John Jarratt along with Danny Trejo, Tom Savini http://www.creature-corner.com/?type=news&id=1286] (who also worked with Rodriguez and Tarantino on their earlier collaboration From Dusk Till Dawn), Michael Keaton (who worked with Tarantino in Jackie Brown), Dean Fernando http://imdb.com/title/tt0462322/, Rose McGowan, Marley Shelton, Michael Biehn http://www.moviehole.net/news/20060323_michael_biehn_and_rose_mcgowan.html , Mickey Rourke, Stacy Ferguson, Lucy Lawless http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22846, Josh Brolin, Jeff Fahey, and Freddy Rodriguez. The Weinstein Company has slated the film for an April 6, 2007 release date. The film is slated as being in production in January 2006, but Rodríguez apparently did three days of shooting to get himself excited about it. He believes much of that footage will be in the finished film. Rodríguez's band Chingon will be doing some music for the film.

Cast

• Michael Biehn
• Dean Fernando...Alex Li
• John Jarratt
• Alicia Rachel Marak...Redhead Babe
• Danny Trejo
• Michael Keaton
• Tom Savini
• Rosario Dawson
• Tracie Thoms
• Rose McGowan
• Marley Shelton
• Mickey Rourke...Stuntman Mike
• Zoe Bell...Zoe
• Lucy Lawless
• Josh Brolin
• Freddy Rodriguez
• Jeff Fahey
• Stacy Ferguson

External links

• Grind House Forum. The most updated and biggest source of exclusive news]
• Tarantino Gushes About 'Grind,' Says Next 'Kill Bill' Is 10 Years Away. MTV.com, September 20, 2005.
• Cinema Confidential Chat with Robert Rodriguez 12-6-05.
• Cover to Tarantino's "Death Proof" script (from aintitcool.com)
• Grind House related news at tarantino.info
• Grind House production news/notes from everythingtarantino.com

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