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There's a new piece of news flying around about the Tarantino/Rodriguez production every five minutes; Rodriguez has stopped filming, Rodriguez has started filming again blah blah blah….

The movie will be two 75 minute features, played back to back with fake trailers wedged in between.. but more about those later.

'Grind House' is being produced through 'RIP' or 'Rodriguez international pictures' Quentin is directing 'Death Proof' apparently starring Mickey Rourke, John Jarrat (from wolf creek) and Zoe Bell (a stuntwoman from Xena: warrior princess, and Kill Bill… yeah its weird… I know). The plot revolves around a guy who hunts and kills women with his 'Death-proof' stunt car there's a little script review over at aintitcool.

The image to the left is the front cover to the script, describing the film as 'A White-Hot Juggernaut at 200mph!'. It sounds like a cross between 'Death Race 2000' and 'The Hitcher', Although even more-so it sounds a lot like an under-the-radar flick from a couple of years ago called 'Highwaymen' about a guy who killed people with his car, He kills James 'Jesus' Caviezel's wife, and so Jim hunts the guy down for revenge. Not a great film but it had its moments.

Rodriguez is taking care of the second half of the film called 'Project Terror' a zombie film, and as we reported earlier he has apparently brought in 80's falling star Michael Biehn to lead the project. Very little is known about the plot, and filming recently shutdown (rumoured to be because Rodriguez broke up with his wife so he needs some time-out) but will be up and running again very soon.

So Tarantino's doing the first half of the film, and Rodriguez is doing the second half. In between they're going to stick trailers for fake films. The early word was that there would maybe be a sexploitation trailer called 'Cowgirls in Sweden' (which even involved Tarantino going to Sweden to search out really hot cowgirls…. nice job if you can get it). Another confirmed trailer is 'Machete' which Rodriguez hopes will eventually become a proper film. A stalk and slash film starring the eponymous 'Danny Trejo'. As for the other trailers there's lots of speculation flying around about a 'Fox Force Five' trailer, a spaghetti western trailer, and an 'Evil Dead' style horror flick. What is known is that guest directors will be filming the trailers, with Eli Roth and Edgar Wright both confirmed to be doing one each.

A link to a brief 'Death Proof' script preview here

Grind House forums here 

Bigger version of the above image here

The front cover for the 'Grind House' companion here

Danny Trejo interview here 

If I missed anything please let me know in the comments section, or drop me a mail… 

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