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According to Rodriguez, the origins of the film go back to Desperado.

He says, " When I met Danny, I said, ' This guy should be like the Mexican Jean-Claude Van Damme or Charles Bronson, putting out a movie every year and his name should be Machete.

' So I decided to do that way back when, never got around to it until finally now.

So now, of course, I want to keep going and do a feature.

" In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Rodriguez said that he wrote the screenplay back in 1993 when he cast Trejo in Desperado.

" So I wrote him this idea of a federale from Mexico who gets hired to do hatchet jobs in the U. S. I had heard sometimes FBI or DEA have a really tough job that they don't want to get their own agents killed on, they'll hire an agent from Mexico to come do the job for $ 25, 000.

I thought, " That's Machete.

He would come and do a really dangerous job for a lot of money to him but for everyone else over here it's peanuts.

" But I never got around to making it.