Will fake ‘Machete’ become a real movie?

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The terms “real” and “fake” can start to lose all meaning when you talk about 2007’s Grindhouse by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. To ramp up the “realism” of their “fake” drive-in double feature, the duo worked with friends to create fake trailers. (You can watch them in their nudity-packed, blood-splattered glory on YouTube, at least until someone reports the video.) Now, one of those fake previews is supposedly being made into a real movie.

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