Spy Kids director Robert Rodriguez is working on a new Spy Kids franchise at Netflix
The upcoming franchise is set to introduce a new family of spies
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Whenever something gets rebooted, the news is met with comments about Hollywood being fresh out of ideas. The latest “who asked for this” remake is Spy Kids. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Robert Rodriguez will write, direct, and produce a new Spy Kids franchise for Netflix. Instead of catching up with the Cortez family, the new movies will introduce a different family of spies.
No other details have been shared yet.
But just because there’s a new family introduced, that doesn’t discard the possibility that the Cortez family will still exist in the upcoming franchise’s universe. This would be the second time Rodriguez has introduced a new pair of spy kids. In the last title, Spy Kids: All The Time In The Word, the focus was on original spy kids Juni and Carmen’s step-cousins Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook).
Though Rodriguez didn’t make a new franchise with the second set of spy kids at the time, the movie ended with Carmen and Juni leading a spy kids program. That opens up endless possibilities for a new generation of spy kids to be trained under the original duos’ guidance—and it means Alexa PenaVega and Daryl Sabara can reprise their childhood roles.
Rodriguez teaming up with Netflix for this reboot makes sense. The filmmaker had a Sharkboy And Lava Girl sequel, We Can All Be Heroes, premiere on the streaming giant in 2020. THR also reports that there’s a sequel to that sequel in the works, but Netflix is keeping mum on those details, too.
Rodriguez previously talked about there being an interest in rebooting Spy Kids, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly from 2020. “’I’ve been getting calls from all kinds of studios: ‘Reboot Spy Kids.’ ‘Reboot Sharkboy.’ Of course they want to. They’re all sitting at home with their kids,” he said at the time.
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As long as it includes Danny Trejo.
The latest “who asked for this” remake is Spy Kids.Well, to be fair, from what little information we have, this sounds like it may be a new story with new characters within the same setting as the original series, so less a “remake” and more a “continuation”.Yes, yes, it’s tiresome that Hollywood keeps returning to the same properties time and time again (not like this is a new habit (looks at the Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys and their nearly 90 films)). Still, it’s Robert Rodriguez returning to a world that holds promise for a lot of good, fun, original stories, so there’s some reason for hope.
Also, is it really “Hollywood” when Rodriguez basically makes these in his back yard/garage?
The originals are pretty fuckin bad but green screen technology has improved a lot recently
Whatever Rodriguez did in his Boba Fett episodes was clearly not an improvement…
Yeah, now instead of looking fake it just looks fake.
Spy Kids and Machete are in the same universe.
Seems like a not-bad idea. Been a long time since I saw the first movie, but it was inventive and fun and silly. Nothing wrong with turning it into a series of some kind.
These films are camp and a fever dream
i’ve got a 16 and 8 yr old kids, so they’ve both gone through phases of watching his movies and I’ve had to suffer through them repeatedly. I don’t think they’re bad, per se, just…cheesy? But for a 5 or 7 yr old, it’s nice to know it’s not going to be anything awful or questionable when they put one of his movies on and I can at least chuckle at some of the cameos like Danny Trejo or whatever. Overall, I’m ok w/ Mr. Rodriguez making some version of these forever and doing a MACHETE every 10 yrs. (I pray Mr. Trejo is around another 30, 40 yrs to do so. He’s a FKING LEGEND IN EVERY WAY).
Also it got to introduce my children to Danny Fkng Trejo, twice, and make sure they know who the good ones are in the world.