Robert Rodriguez's Hypnotic has taken decades to come to the big screen, facing financing issues and COVID-19 woes all along the way.
Robert Rodriguez is a dedicated filmmaker. When he gets an idea in his head, it stays there, and he won't let go of it until it's a fully-realized motion picture. Just look at how an alternate version of Danny Trejo's Machete first debuted in the 2001 film Spy Kids, years before the character's solo adventures. Meanwhile, the screenplay for Predators was penned in the 1990s, decades before 20th Century Fox opted to turn it into an actual entry in the Predator franchise.
Unfortunately, like many mini-major studios, Studio 8 never quite lived up to its potential. Struggles to both secure constant financing and get new movies going kept Studio 8 from ever being the major cinematic player it was intended to be. Still, picking up Hypnotic in 2018 showed that Studio 8 was far from dead in the ground. With Rodriguez writing and directing there was a good chance Hypnotic could be the next unexpected sleeper hit from the director, like Spy Kids.
In February 2023, Deadline did an extensive breakdown of Hypnotic's struggles to secure a domestic distributor. Before filming began, countless international distributors had scooped up Hypnotic, with these deals being built on the fact that Hypnotic would get unveiled on over 2,000 screens in America. This detail makes it immediately clear why Hypnotic didn't solve its distribution woes sooner.
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