Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT One key aspect of the original Spy Kids unnerved the studio. Premiering in 2001, the movie followed two children of spies, as they were forced to engage in espionage of their own. It was a massive success, boasting $147 million on a $35 million budget. It would eventually spawn multiple sequels, as well as the recent Netflix reboot, Spy Kids: Armageddon.
You know, usually the [movie] business is not very innovative. It is very imitative, though. If something is a success, they’ll imitate that, but you need to be the first success. They had never seen a big movie cast with that many Hispanics, so they were like, “Why don’t you just make the family American?” Well, they are American. It’s based on my family. My uncle was an FBI special agent, Gregorio Rodriguez, and we just changed his name to Cortez for Antonio [Banderas’] character.
It finally dawned on me: You don’t have to be British to enjoy James Bond. Being British makes him very specific, and it makes him more universal. It makes you wish you were British. They bought that.
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