The concept for the upcoming film Machete (to be released on April 16) has been around for a while now. In fact, ever since Danny Trejo appeared in Desperado, Robert Rodriguez has believed he should be the Mexican Jean-Claude Van Damme. In fact, Rodriguez wrote the Machete screenplay in 1993 — around the time of Desperado — and has pulled many sequences from that script for his recent films. Now the project has finally come to fruition, with Trejo cast perfectly. 

The film looks typical of both its producer (Quentin Tarantino) and director. Trejo plays the assassin Machete, a Mexican ex-federale who’s hired to kill a corrupt Senator selling illegal immigrants in the United States. The trailer — simultaneously bloodthirsty and funny — speaks for itself, but what it fails to show is the stellar cast behind Trejo, which includes Robert De Niro, Steven Segal, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Rose McGowan and Cheech Marin. Take a look at the trailer above for what is sure to be a Rodriguez classic.

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