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Machete is returning with knives sharpened, guns blazing and cameo appearances aplenty.
Danny Trejo is back as the revenge-seeking ex-Federale agent, and Lady Gaga, Mel Gibson, Sofia Vergara, Antonio Banderas and Charlie Sheen are few of the stars seen in this new trailer for the Robert Rodriguez project.
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According to the synopsis, Machete is enlisted by the president of the United States (Sheen, billed with his birth name, Carlos Estevez, in the trailer) in order to “take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.”
The Hollywood Reporter previously noted that Machete was intended as a trilogy. The original R-rated grindhouse film grossed just over $25 million in U.S. theaters when it was released in 2010.
Trailer narrated in Spanish, with an introduction by Trejo and Rodriguez:
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