We got to really dive into the mythology that we're creating here and have some unique differences to what was there before. They will be nasty customers, but it's a lot different than you expect. When we meet up with the vampires in the series, will they follow the same pattern that the film did in that they're going to be nasty customers? (El Rey Network is available in Chicago at Comcast 139 and DirecTV 341. Rodriguez answered more questions about the series, the upcoming film "Sin City 2" and his network during a recent conference call. "I think that's what drew a lot of our cast as well was just getting the chance to play Quentin Tarantino characters in a television series, which has never been done before." was really, really exciting and fun," said Rodriguez, who directed the first, second and fourth episodes and wrote the first. Quentin writes the best characters, so to take those characters and expand on them. Those characters will be played by cast members including Robert Patrick, Don Johnson, Wilmer Valderrama, Jesse Garcia, Madison Davenport, Brandon Soo Hoo and guest stars such as Adrianne Palicki, Lane Garrison and Jake Busey. March 11, takes place from dusk till dawn, Rodriguez said, but he went back to that original research to add new characters, details and supernatural twists to the story. Like the movie, the 10-episode series, premiering 8 p.m. "I added into the original movie things that I researched," he said of things that were just teased at in the film, " Aztec cultures and mythologies and a blood cult that worships snakes." These characters were played in the movie by George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino and Salma Hayek, respectively. Cotrona) and Richard "Richie" Gecko (Zane Holtz), and their infamous night with Santanico Pandemonium (Eiza Gonzalez) and her vampire pals at a strip club. "From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series" retells the story of bank-robbing brothers Seth (D.J. He felt "From Dusk Till Dawn," with its built-in fan base and name recognition, would be perfect as the network's first original series to show people "what the network was about." Last fall, he founded El Rey Network, a Hispanic English-language network featuring programming with "universal themes and stories you don't even realize you're watching something that's considered Hispanic." Remember the old saying, "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself"? Well, add "TV executive" to Rodriguez's long list of accomplishments. "We really wouldn't want to do it for television unless, you know, at least one of us was heavily involved and I didn't see myself getting into television at that time." "I said, 'No, Quentin and I control the rights to it,'" the writer-director-editor said. Robert Rodriguez had been approached many times to create a TV series based upon his and Quentin Tarantino's 1996 cult classic, "From Dusk Till Dawn."
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