"Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For" Director Robert Rodriguez formed a formidable duo with Quentin Tarantino in the 90s. Their movies were made to entertain, and the modern classics they produced are really worth revisiting.

Rodriguez is busy promoting the long-awaited sequel but he is also focused on his new pet project, the TV series adaptation of "From Dusk Till Dawn."

"From Dusk Till Dawn" was a 1996 vampire movie with George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino and Salma Hayek in the iconic dance scene (a staple of Rodriguez movies). The entire film takes place in just one night, literally from dusk till dawn.

The series will take the same route, making it a real time series like "24" but only half the length. "From Dusk Till Dawn" became a 'cult classic' but the series promises to be even better!

Robert Rodriguez had an interview with Collider, and he shares the some of the highlights of shooting the series:

Have there been any special challenges, in taking this cult classic film and adapting it to be a TV show?  

RR: I was looking forward to the challenge of it.  The whole season takes place from dusk until dawn, and we retold the original story with the Gecko brothers and Santanico.  In the original film, when I first read the script, it didn't really take Mexico into account, so I added into the original movie, things that I researched about Aztec cultures and mythologies.  I found a blood cult that worships snakes and I included that in the film.  And the last shot of the hinted at a larger mythology. 

So, I always thought that was a cool idea that we didn't get to explore further in the film because it just wasn't written that way, but I left it there, just to tickle people's imagination about what it could be.  And now, years and years later, when I have the El Rey Network, I thought that would be a great first show to do that would be a known title to lead people to the network and show them what the network was about, but also give a chance to re-explore some of those ideas that I had researched, way back in the first film, and expand Quentin's story to include new characters, new trajectories and new storylines for the original characters, and really build that mythology up more with the Santanico cult, so that we could follow that in more seasons, later on. 

So, the challenge was really finding a new writing team, and me writing the original script to the first episode to show how it would be expanded, so that they could emulate that style for other episodes.  It was just a lot of fun.  Quentin writes the best characters, so to take those characters and expand on them and see where else they could have gone or come from, was really, really exciting and fun to work with.  That's what drew a lot of our cast, as well was just getting the chance to play Quentin Tarantino characters in a television series, which has never been done before.

When we finally get to encounter the vampires, are they going to be nasty vampires?

RR:  They will be, but it's a lot different than you expect.  We got to really dive into the mythology of these vampires that we're creating here, and they have some unique differences to what was there before.  I think it's much more cohesive.  And the make-up  from KNB and Greg Nicotero, who does The Walking Dead, is just technology different than in the old days.  Their work is just stellar.  I was really captivated, and I was the one holding the camera.  It was really awesome.  I think people will be really thrilled by the advances that have happened, with all of the effects."