Once Upon a Time in Mexico

By Mallory Potosky
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/once_upon_a_time_in_mexico/
Robert Rodriguez concluded his El Mariachi trilogy when Once Upon a Time in Mexico was released nationwide this day in 2003. Upon the release of 2005's Desperado, fellow moviemaker Quentin Tarantino convinced his friend that the mariachi tale could not possibly be complete in only two movies. Like Sergio Leone's build-up to Once Upon a Time in the West, Rodriguez had created what needed to be told in three parts.