Robert Rodriguez says Alexa PenaVega and Daryl Sabara weren’t in ‘Spy Kids: Armageddon’ because ‘it’s been too long’ since the last movie

Robert Rodriguez; “Spy Kids: All the Time in the World”

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Robert Rodriguez is not opposed to bringing the original Spy kids Stars Alexa PenaVega and Daryl Sabara return for another movie. But the director says that the time between the last part, The disasterand 2011 Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the Worldmeaning, “It’s important to start the franchise over.”

The director spoke about his decision to release the latest film Spy kids Chapter with a whole new family – and a new group of superstar kids – in a new interview with Yahoo Entertainment.

“I wanted to re-establish a new family,” he said of the choice to cast Conor Esterson and Everly Carganella in the new Netflix film, which will be released on Friday. “Because it was long [since 2011’s All the Time in the World]”It was important to start the franchise over and go from there.”

Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World It starred PenaVega and Sabara alongside Jessica Alba, Joel McHale, Rowan Blanchard, Mason Cook, Ricky Gervais, and Jeremy Piven. Alba portrayed an agent for a super-spy organization who was married to spy-hunting reporter McHale. Vega and Sabara were the nieces and nephews of Alba’s secret agent, whose stepchildren (Blanchard and Cook) confront a villain threatening to unleash a temporal weapon known as Project: Armageddon.

While the director is also known for Boba Fett book, Grindhouse And From dusk until dawnInterested in expanding? Spy kids A world with a new family, this does not mean that he did not think about bringing back his previous personalities.

“I would love to come back [characters]I would like to connect worlds. “That would be a lot of fun,” he said. “It’s possible to stay in the same world, so if we can make more movies, old characters can easily come back.”

During the interview, Rodriguez also shared the importance of being able to release someone else Spy kids A sequel set in Hollywood’s current storytelling climate. “It’s hard to make movies that aren’t Hollywood [based on] “It’s pre-existing material that the studio owns,” he said. “So, when you can come up with your own story and make a sequel to it, man, you’re going to make as many of these stories as you can because they’re rare.”

Released in 2001, original Spy kids It stars Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino as two spies who must be rescued after being kidnapped by their two children, played by PenaVega and Sabara. Since then, four more films have been released, including The disaster animation series, Spy Kids: Mission Critical.