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Sharkboy and Lavagirl will come back in Robert Rodriguez ’s We Could Be Heroes about superhero children . He also talks Netflix and variety .
Robert Rodriguezspilled all the bean on his coming film ; WeCan Be Heroesat San Diego Comic - Con@Home ’s panel on director and directing , letting slip a specific item about the restoration of some of his previous characters , Sharkboy and Lavagirl . He also tackled other part of the film , which pip pre - pandemic in Texas and is specify to unfreeze on Netflix .
Rodriguez explained the premise forWe Could Be Heroes , " And so we came up with this squad of was like an Avengers superhero team , but they all have kids . The kids have powers , but they do n’t do it how to apply them because they ’re just so young , and it ’s really fun . "
But what about Sharkboy and Lavagirl?
And as for Sharkboy and Lavagirl ? " Pedro Pascalplays like the Antonio Banderas part . Boyd Holbrook … a huge cast ! Even Sharkboy and Lavagirl show up as superhero parent who now have a girl who ’s got shark and lava powers . She ’s like six , and they ’re all doing awful martial arts . It ’s crazy as they came in so trained already a lot of them had already had training to do amazing stunts and action and martial arts that you would n’t look from 9 10 - year - olds . It ’s a pretty pretty somewhat fun movie , so I ca n’t wait for that to come out . "
on the face of it , we should n’t expecttoomuch Sharkboy and Lavagirl content , as Rodriguez later confirms only Lavagirl has any lines . And you notice how he did n’t in reality say Taylor Lautner is in the movie ?
The importance of diversity
Rodriguez also reassert that the 11 kid who make up the master cast ofWe Could Be Heroeswill be from all dissimilar races and background . Why ? He says it go back to his conflict to ensure the mob in Spy Kids would be Latin .
" For me , it was a big victory , and it was an important one for thing to follow to have the kids and spy kids be a Romance family . It was actually the studio was like , " Why are you making them Latin , though ? Why did n’t you just make them American ? " It was like , " They ARE American . " Rodriguez also explained that the reference were based on real people : his uncle was an FBI Agent who inspired theAntonio Banderascharacter , but he also had his brother Juni and Uncle Felix .
finally , Rodriguez had to push back hard on the studio , who believed piddle the family Latin would lessen the size of it of the hearing . " I pronounce okay , you do n’t have to be British to enjoy James Bond . By being so specific , it becomes more universal . So they give-up the ghost with it . "
As someone who loves the Bond motion-picture show andis presently reviewing all of them here at Bleeding Cool , I could n’t hold more . The best thing aboutSpy Kidsis it felt real ( as much as a undercover agent phantasy made for kids can ) . But the human component about this just being a category really connected with that , and it environ true to me . And , as Rodriguez pointed out , it ’s been part of the hallmark of the series ' success . " Then , of course , there ’s like four of those and that we ’re rebooting it but it really you could kind of had to put your put the flag in and sic it in . "
Part of this has to do with just the difference in make a movie for someone like Netflix rather than for box office distribution :
My most rabid fan al-Qaida by far over all these years has been my like my kid films — mySpy Kidsaudience . These kids see those movies over and over because they ’re they ’re action mechanism movie made for for children and fellowship in particular at a sentence when they need empowerment . Netflix had come to me because theSpy Kidsmovies had just done so well on their Robert William Service . " Could you make us a series of films that do that ? " and I said I ’d have it off to . It was operose to make them for the dramatics because kids could n’t just force themselves to the theater of operations or watch it a thousand time . They have to have parents who would have to take them . But on Netflix they could just sit there . I do n’t have to ride there and watchGlitter Forcewith my daughter : she can go chatter it as many metre as she wants .
It ’s no wonder Sharkboy and Lavagirl will come out of retirement , yield the nostalgia and ease of accessibility that we now have , even to this picture that was initially considered a major bust .
You canwatch the intact panel , which also boast Colin Trevorrow and Joseph Kosinski talking about the Jurassic Worldfilms andTop Gun : Maverick / Tron Legacy , respectively .
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