Hey folks, Harry here... with what sounds like a way cool, ubercool line up of actors and actresses for ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO... Antonio Banderas will be playing El Mariachi, Salma Hayek will play the knife wielding Carolina, Quentin Tarantino will play Cucuy, Eva Mendez will play the female federale Agent Ajedrez, but then... then it gets all confusing.... according to this article in a Mexican Newspaper from the province where they are shooting ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO... the film is also has Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, Mickey Rourke, Marco Leonardi, Ruben Blades and Cheech Marin on board. That's a pretty darn cool line up of actors... but I can't tell who plays what from there on out... See... either Johnny Depp or Mickey Rourke could play the CIA guy.... Either Mickey Rourke or Willem Dafoe could play the General... I just can't figure it out... hm... guess I'll have to see the movie next spring to figure it out....
This little piece in yesterday's Correo Correo-gto.com.mx
The State Coordinator of Tourism (Cotur) through a bulletin disclosed that the movie to be filmed in different settings of the area, will take as title “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”.
The cast is composed of Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp (!!!), Salma Hayek, Quentin Tarantino, Eva Mendez, Ruben Blades, William Dafoe, Mickey Rourke, Marco Leonardi and Cheech Marin; the producers are Elizabeth Avellan, Carlos Gallardo and Robert Rodriguez, also mentioning that the latter is also the film's director and writer.
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To answer the question about recurring characters that have died in previous films... Well, Robert sees the 'El Mariachi Trilogy' as being a trilogy only in theme... The films are not meant to be a continuing story that picks up where the last one left off.... This is a trilogy like Sergio Leoni's MAN WITH NO NAME trilogy was... Why are FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE and THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY considered a trilogy... There is no continuing story... The characters in the three films could be considered different from film to film.... and ultimately there is never resolution. HOWEVER, it is a trilogy because the three films represent the 3 MAN WITH NO NAME films directed by Sergio Leoni and starring Clint Eastwood.
Now on the El Mariachi series... it gets a bit different, the three films all take place in a mythical modern day Mexico, all feature a unnamed Mariachi character with a guitar case loaded with weapons. But do not think that Salma is playing the 'bookstore owner' character from the last film... she's someone different now. You'll see.
