More than twenty years in the making, the full-length feature film based on Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse trailer Machete is finally opening in theaters across the country this Friday, September 3rd, 2010. Danny Trejo stars as a former Mexican Federale forced to go on the run after an assassination plot turns against him. We recently met up with both Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo, as well as the film's two leading ladies Michelle Rodriguez and Jessica Alba, to find out more about the making of this long-awaited thriller. To watch our exclusive interviews, click on the video below:

A blade-wielding ex-Federale hides out as a day laborer when he is double-crossed by a corrupt senator in Robert Rodriguez's long awaited Grindhouse spin-off Machete.