Fresh Machete poster

For all us who sat by as Robert Rodriguez’s feature length adaptation of his grimy faux-trailer for MACHETE languished in inactivity for years, we had doubts it would even get made. Then, with the outlandish, almost SOUTHLAND TALES type-ridiculous casting news for the film (including Lindsay Lohan, Steven Seagal, Don Johnson and others), we really had our doubts.

Well, nothing can be more assuring than a fresh American Film Market (AMF) poster for the flick, one depicting the still lovely, newly MILF-ified Jessica Alba as a dangerous sexpot named Sartana.

Co-directing with first timer Ethan Maniquis (who edited Rodriguez’s PLANET TERROR), R.R. pays homage to the unadulterated grindhouse sleaze that he saw as a kid, turning his own story on:

The highly skilled Federale Machete who is hired by some unsavory types to assassinate a senator. But just as he's about to take the shot, he notices someone aiming at him and realizes he's been set up. He barely survives the sniper's bullet, and is soon out for revenge on his former employers, with the reluctant assistance of his old friend Cheech Marin, who has become a priest and taken a vow of nonviolence. If you hire him to take out the bad guys, make sure the bad guys aren't you!

MACHETE cuts heads on April 16, 2010.

Source: Comingsoon.net

Spilled Blood: Robert Rodriguez wrote the script to MACHETE back in 1993 after he wrote Desperado (1995).