Robert Rodriguez will revive Spy Kids franchise at Netflix

By Blair Marnell March 30, 2022

Twenty one years ago today, writer and director Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids was released in theaters. And although the franchise was seemingly wrapped up with a fourth film just over a decade ago, Rodriguez is ready to revive the property at Netflix. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rodriguez will write, direct, and executive produce a new Spy Kids film for Netflix.

In the original Spy Kids film, Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara) are a pair of siblings who are blissfully unaware that their parents, Gregorio (Uncharted‘s Antonio Banderas) and Ingrid Cortez (Sin City‘s Carla Gugino), are secretly spies for OSS. When their parents are kidnapped, Carmen and Juni take it upon themselves to follow in the Cortez family business and become spies themselves in order to save the day.

The core cast returned for two sequels: Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams in 2002 and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over in 2003. However, only Vega and Sabara reprised their roles for Spy Kids: All The Time in the World in 2011. At the time, that film was touted as the end of the franchise since Carmen and Juni had grown up by the end.

The cast of Spy Kids stands ready for a fight.

According to THR, the story details about the fifth Spy Kids film are still under wraps, so it is unclear if any of the previous cast members will return in any capacity. The movie will reportedly “introduce a new family of spies.”

The Spy Kids revival film will be produced for Netflix in partnership with Skydance Media and Spyglass Media. Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger will produce the film alongside Elizabeth Avellan and Racer Max. Spyglass Media’s Gary Barber and Peter Oillataguerre will serve as executive producers on the project.

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"Our goal with the Miramax App is to offer consumers a great user experience where they can watch movie clips and feature length films, play games and share the experience with their friends within the Facebook community," writes Miramax CEO Mike Lang on the Miramax blog. "And in doing so, we aim to ultimately build our reach to 150 million+ Facebook friends within the next 18 months."
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Adventureland, Chicago, Clerks, Cold Mountain, Extract, From Dusk Till Dawn, Gangs of New York, Gone Baby Gone, Good Will Hunting, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Kill Bill 2, No Country for Old Men, Pulp Fiction, Shall We Dance (2004), Sin City, Spy Kids, Swingers, The Switch, Trainspotting
In the UK:
Chicago, Cold Mountain, From Dusk Till Dawn, Good Will Hunting, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Kill Bill 2, Shall We Dance (2004), Sin City, Spy Kids
In Turkey:
Adventureland, Chicago, Clerks, Cold Mountain, From Dusk Till Dawn,Gone Baby Gone, Good Will Hunting, Jackie Brown, Spy Kids, Swingers
Those who rent for the service will be able to have access to the movie for up to 30 days. But once a movie is started, users have 48 hours to finish before their rental expires.
The app is also accessible through the Miramax Experience app for iPad and Google TV. And as of right now, that's likely the best way to go, as they seem to be still working out a number of kinks with the Facebook version. (The app is in beta, after all — and Lang says that they built the app in "just 8 short weeks," so there's bound to be some problems.)
Miramax is not the first movie studio to make titles available on Facebook. Warner Bros, Universal and Paramount all have similar deals. But they offer nowhere close to the number of titles Miramax has made available.
In addition to Facebook, Miramax currently has streaming deals with Amazon, Hulu, Netflix and Apple.