The gritty look and feel of the series will be brought to life by production designers Steve Joyner and Caylah Eddleblute, set designer Jeff Adams, director of photography Eduardo Mayén, and costume designer Nina Proctor. Diego Gutierrez is writer and co-executive producer. Rodriguez is joined in the executive producer ranks by Carlos Coto (who is also showrunner) and FactoryMade Ventures and El Rey Network co-founders John Fogelman and Cristina Patwa. Rodriguez said: “If the movie’s the short story, the series is the novel.” He added: “We have assembled an amazing cast and crew, and viewers can expect to be part of a wild ride when the series premieres on El Rey Network next spring.” Miramax, producing studio and distributor of the original film, is distributing the series internationally in all territories with the exception of Canada, China, India, and the UK. Other cast will be announced in the coming weeks. Don Johnson (Django Unchained, “Nash Bridges”) joins in a recurring role as Sheriff Earl McGraw. Zane Holtz (Holes, The Perks of Being a Wallflower) stars as Richie Gecko, and Jesse Garcia (Quinceañera, “Sons of Anarchy”) plays Texas Ranger Freddie Gonzalez, a new character created for the series. Joe: Retaliation) as Seth Gecko, the role that famously launched the film career of George Clooney. The 10-episode serialized drama, created, directed, and executive produced by Rodriguez (Sin City, Machete, Desperado) and based on the 1996 cult classic he created with Quentin Tarantino, will feature a principal cast including D.J. Based on his cult classic film of the same name, the supernatural crime saga, hour-long series (which will premiere on El Rey Network in Q1 2014) began filming in Austin this week with Rodriguez set to direct the first two installments. And, yes, there is still a character nicknamed “Sex Machine”.El Rey Network, in association with FactoryMade Ventures, today announced the production start of “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series,” the first scripted original series to air on Robert Rodriguez’s new genre-busting cable network set to debut this December. Given the breadth of the show, there’s also a larger supporting cast, with room for some of the offbeat bit players that Rodriguez, who wrote and directed some of the episodes as well as overseeing the project as executive producer, is so fond of. Added to the ensemble mix is a young Texas Ranger, Freddie Gonzalez, pursuing the Geckos in the name of his veteran partner Earl McGraw. Also featured is the suspect Carlos, with his links to an underworld that plainly means different things to different people, as well as the seductive Santanico Pandemonium, a representative of the undead with a taste for humans. Here’s our comparison guide to the movie and the series: CharactersĮssentially they’re all present and correct: on the run bank robbers and brazen killers Seth and Richie Gecko, the RV-owning Fuller family – former minister and widower Jacob, his daughter Katie and adopted son Scott, who the Gecko boys kidnap to help them cross the Mexican border. The latest hopeful is From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, a reinvention from the creatively fertile mind of Robert Rodriguez, the one-man Austin, Texas production house, of the low-budget horror and crime mash-up he concocted with Quentin Tarantino in 1996 in the wake of the duo’s ascension with the likes of Desperadoand Reservoir Dogs.Ī pulpy hostage thriller overtaken by a fight against vampires, the movie gives way to a 10-part series that screens on SBS 2, Tuesdays at 8.30pm (watch episode 1 above). Turning a successful movie into a television show is a tricky matter, as the demands of two hours versus 12 or even 24, the limits of small screen production budgets and the necessity of a contained storyline against that of a long form work can all swiftly become fatal flaws for every Fargo, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and M*A*S*H, there is a Clueless, Highlander and Casablanca (don’t know about the terrible 1983 television series? Keep it that way).
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