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Machete
2010 · Film · 105 min
Directed by Robert Rodriguez, Ethan Maniquis
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
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The movie Machete was made after the trailer. The trailer was sandwiched, with other fake ones, in between the two parts of the Tarantino / Rodriguez double-feature Grindhouse. I remember because I saw Grindhouse in theaters and years later saw the actual trailer for the real movie Machete and did quite the double take. What a B-movie clusterfuck.
Interesting decision to leave out movies that were fake, then became real. Like Machete was fake until it became a real movie!
Good customer development is filming the trailer and then deciding whether to make the movie.
FWIW: Tarantino & Rodriguez's movie _Grindhouse_ included several fake movie trailers. They were so popular that _Machete_ and _Hobo_With_A_Shotgun_ were turned into real movies with good boxoffice returns; more such projects are underway.
We'll be saved by Robert Rodriguez' Machete, perhaps the greatest C-movie ever made.