Spy Kids: Armageddon Interview Director Robert Rodriguez
40Over 20 years ago, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez unleashed the Spy Kids franchise to the world, full of action and a surprising ensemble cast for a family feature. The movie, starring Antonio Banderas, Alan Cumming, Danny Trejo, and more, would go on to inspire a series of high-stakes missions with kids leading the charge. Now, Rodriguez reunites with Netflix after his 2020 Pedro Pascal-led We Can Be Heroes to reboot the beloved series with Spy Kids: Armageddon. Before its release, Collider’s Steve Weintraub spoke to the co-writer, director, cinematographer, and editor about the VFX, working with the kid heroes of the movie, and sequels!
Written for and about the next generation of Spy Kids, Armageddon introduces the clever sibling duo of Tony and Patty Tango-Torrez, played by Connor Esterson and Everly Carganilla. In the original Spy Kids adventure, Juni (Daryl Sabara) and Carmen (Alexa PenaVega) Cortez’s adventure began with the nefarious creator from Juni’s favorite TV series. In Armageddon, Tony unknowingly helps a formidable game developer spread a virus that allows him to control technology. Naturally, the kids find out their parents, Terrence Tango (Zachary Levi) and Nora Torrez (Gina Rodriguez), have been spies all along and have been kidnapped! Tony and Patty must train up, rescue their parents, and then enter the video game in order to try and stop The King (Billy Magnussen) before it’s too late.
During the interview, Rodriguez discusses his excitement to partner with Netflix again to provide the streamer’s youngest viewers with another exciting adventure family film, one he enlisted the help of his own family to create. He talks about working with eight-year-old stars and adapting the script to their abilities, only to watch them “become superhuman over a couple of months.” We also learn Armageddon has over 1600 VFX—“the most effects shots in any Spy Kids movie”—and if we’ll be getting sequels to this one and We Can Be Heroes.
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