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Danny Trejo & An Inspirational True Story

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (23)

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Danny Trejo has bought the rights to Paul Millsap’s inspirational true story, of rags-to-riches-hardship-over-coming-from-the-depths-of-poverty-with-a-cherry-on-top and will be making a film of it called Ambition. Really? If you heard that Danny Trejo was making a film and you had to guess the genre, would inspirational true sports story be your first guess? In the top five? My first four were all variations on “snuff” and the fifth was just “don’t let Danny Trejo know where I live.”

As for Paul Millsap’s story? Here’s the way Cinema Blend describes it:

Trejo and his financing partner Gil Medina are making Ambition, a basketball movie about NBA’er Paul Millsap and his uncle and agent DeAngelo Simmons. Millsap is a 25 year old forward for the Utah Jazz. Ambition will detail his relationship with Simmons after Millsap’s family moved in with their uncle. Simmons helped raise Millsap, taught him basketball and eventually became his agent and representative.

Although it seems a little premature to make an inspirational movie about a basketball player who’s only played three seasons, The Blind Side managed to get greenlit, filmed and released before Michael Oher played a down in the NFL, so it’s got that going for it.

Sandra Bullock is in talks to play Millsap’s uncle, but is reportedly unhappy about the prosthesis and black face.

(source: Cinema Blend)









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Comments

I Realy do not want to know Danny Trejo's training methods, but my gues is sharp and pointy metal objects are involved.

And screaming, Oh yes, a lot of screaming.

Posted by: Magiel at April 6, 2010 9:26 AM

Did anyone else think this post was about Danny Trejo was making "The Danny Trejo Story?"

Posted by: BWeaves at April 6, 2010 9:29 AM

I didn't think that BWeaves, but I do think you are very funny and, upon reflection, accurate.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at April 6, 2010 9:33 AM

Now, see? The Blind Side With Machetes is a movie I'd watch.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at April 6, 2010 9:50 AM

I would much rather watch that movie, BWeaves.

"Robert Rodriguez found me huffing glue off a dead cat in Mexico City. He said 'You look like a mean motherfucker, can you use a knife?' And so our friendship and my movie career was born."

Danny Trejo is actually American and is cousins with Robert Rodriguez. I know this, but I like my version better.

Posted by: Snath at April 6, 2010 9:50 AM

I'm with BWeaves. I REALLY was hoping that's what this was....sigh.....

Oh, and Duke sucks...

Posted by: dammitjanet at April 6, 2010 9:53 AM

There will be a training montage with a tennis ball machine that serves basketballs and a dual-machete wielding Trejo. That will be enough to make me see it.

Posted by: admin at April 6, 2010 10:04 AM

indeed, now here's a man that should write some memoires

Posted by: Magiel at April 6, 2010 10:06 AM

Much as I love the image of Danny Trejo: Professional Ass-Kicker, who wants to bet he loves scrapbooking, owns several cats and never misses an episode of Paula Deen?

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at April 6, 2010 10:32 AM

"The Danny Trejo story" has already been made.
It's called Champion. Awesome documentary.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449472/

Posted by: RegDunlop at April 6, 2010 10:40 AM

Oh, and Duke sucks...

Posted by: dammitjanet at April 6, 2010 9:53 AM
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Now see, I don't get this. You want to hate on somebody, hate on the cheaters and the schools that use the kids and don't give a fuck whether they get any education. Don't hate on a school that does everything the right way, and kicks your ass besides. And I say this as someone whose Mountaineers lost by 21 to Duke three days ago.

Not that I didn't want to see Butler win, but that has more to do with giving the finger to the power structure of NCAA sports.

Posted by: , at April 6, 2010 10:40 AM

Tracer, from IMBD Trejo's Bio-

A child drug addict and criminal, Danny Trejo was in and out of jail for 11 years. While serving time in San Quentin, he won the lightweight and welterweight boxing titles. Imprisoned for armed robbery and drug offenses, he successfully completed a 12-step rehabilitation program that changed his life. While speaking at a Cocaine Anonymous meeting in 1985, Trejo met a young man who later called him for support. Trejo went to meet him at what turned out to be the set of Runaway Train (1985). Trejo was immediately offered a role as a convict extra, probably because of his tough tattooed appearance. Also on the set was a screenwriter who did time with Trejo in San Quentin. Remembering Trejo's boxing skills, the screenwriter offered him $350 per day to train the actors for a boxing match. Director Andrey Konchalovskiy saw Trejo training Eric Roberts and immediately offered him a featured role as Roberts' opponent in the film.

So, scrapbooking, cats, and kicking ass.

Posted by: mrcreosote at April 6, 2010 10:41 AM

_, it's just morning after frustration. I just read that Duke has over $13 million budgeted for basketball ALONE. I'd rather give an F-U to all those who are convinced that throwing money at something or someone makes them great. Butler is, and should be very proud...a small, private nobody school from Indy, with a bunch of home-grown kids who went toe-to-toe with one of the biggest basketball machines in the country and didn't give an inch.

Sorry about your Mountaineers. You didn't drive to the game, did you? Saw a bunch of WVU'ers on their way home Sunday and told them I had been rooting for them.

Posted by: dammitjanet at April 6, 2010 10:59 AM

hahahaha, good one, Tracer.

You gave me this vision of Danny Trejo in a rocking chair on the porch, kiddies playing and fluffy pink Mr. Bunny slippers, a big cat on his lap.

With a machette standing against the doorpost, of course

Posted by: Magiel at April 6, 2010 11:13 AM

Danny Trejo is THE. MAN.

Thanks for linking to the documentary about his life. Now *that* actually sounds interesting.

So I was watching Pitbulls and Parolees on Animal Planet (I think that's the name of it), which is about a big pitbull sanctuary in California. In one episode, the sanctuary was hit by a big, unusual storm for that part of CA, and a lot of the outdoor kennels and stuff were damaged. Volunteers came in to help clean up and rebuild, and Danny Trejo was one of the volunteers. He talked about how much he loves pitbulls, and the work that they do at the sanctuary, taking dogs that no one wants to work with, etc., and how he just felt compelled to help.

So, scrapbooking, Paula Deen, and pitbulls. Yep.

Posted by: MM at April 6, 2010 11:14 AM

dammit,

Nah, my job usually precludes anything like that. I'm the sports copy desk at the newspaper here, so when there are games being played it means I'm working.

I went to one women's game this year, on a Sunday afternoon. That team finished second in the Big East (regular season and tournament) and made the round of 32 and has literally everybody coming back.

It will still lose to Connecticut by 20 every time. That might be the greatest team I've ever seen.

Posted by: , at April 6, 2010 11:15 AM

Thanks for posting that bio, mrcreosote. Knowing all that makes me like and respect him even more.

I'm still ascairt of him, though.

Posted by: Jerce at April 6, 2010 11:28 AM

Magiel , heck yeah. He's got on half-glasses and an Afghan over his shoulders and he's reading to the kids in that gravelly voice, "One fish, two fish. Red fish, blue fish. This is how, we cut a snitch. We cut his throat, from ear to ear. Next time he'll make sure, that my money's here."

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at April 6, 2010 11:41 AM

There has to be some sort of Pajiba corollary to the "Chuck Norris facts", but with my favorite Austin resident, Danny Trejo.

Instead of some crazed-testosterone fueled extravaganza, like "Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer. But he never cries," there would be some wonderfully twisted version:

Danny Trejo's machete is the original Large Hadron Collider.

Cuteness is now measured in kittens, but was originally measured in Danny Trejos, but since nothing is as cute as Danny Trejo, instead of fractional Trejos, the International Board of Standards changed the metric. (I now question my heterosexuality.)

After the Indonesian Tsunami, Danny Trejo went to help out a distressed community in the Maldives. Now there is a cargo cult of the Mustache of Light...and machetes.

Posted by: W.E.Coyote at April 6, 2010 4:28 PM

WEC, I was thinking something along those lines, wondering who wins a Chuck Norris-Danny Trejo throwdown.

Opinions?

Posted by: , at April 6, 2010 4:40 PM

Short answer: Danny

Long answer: We all do.

A Round House kick isn't as effectual when the foot has been hacked off. Remember, he is Mexi-can, not a Mexi-can't

Posted by: W.E.Coyote at April 6, 2010 5:37 PM

Danny Trejo knows the score. Chuck Norris doesn't.

End of argument.

Posted by: Shane at April 7, 2010 1:09 AM

Thats.. an interesting childrens book, Tracer.

Posted by: Magiel at April 7, 2010 5:44 AM