Alvaro Rodriguez Bio
ALVARO RODRIGUEZ has been writing since childhood and, in fact, did his best work
when he was 11. Without a movie camera in sight, Rodriguez relied on the written
word and a Polaroid Button to storyboard the films in his head. A crash course in
entertainment writing and editing at the University of Texas’ student newspaper
supplied more tools for the toolbox. When he riffed on a Spanish guitar figure as
the musical theme to cousin Robert
Rodriguez’s debut film, EL MARIACHI, he began a collaboration that
has lasted nearly two decades.
Rodriguez sold his first pitch to Dimension Films, a spaghetti-western prequel to
the genre-bending vampire flick FROM DUSK TILL DAWN called THE HANGMAN’S DAUGHTER,
which starred Michael Parks, Marco Leonardi, Sonia Braga, Rebecca Gayheart and Danny
Trejo.
He then went on to co-write the wishing-rock children’s movie SHORTS with James
Spader, Jon Cryer, Leslie Mann and William H. Macy, and followed that confection
with the bloodier MACHETE
starring Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Jeff Fahey,
Don Johnson and Robert De Niro.
Rodriguez is currently developing several new projects as a screenwriter and as
a writer-editor.
For more information about Alvaro Rodriguez, please visit: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736155/
