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Brett Harvey to direct Danny Trejo story Inmate#1<\/strong> World-renowned actor Danny Trejo has teamed up with award-winning filmmaker Brett Harvey (Ice Guardians, The Culture High<\/em>) to tell a story 71-years in the making.<\/p>\n \u201cInmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo\u201d,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>currently in production in California, explores the life and career of Hollywood\u2019s most unlikely hero, Danny Trejo.<\/p>\n Trejo, whose myriad of TV and motion picture work includes\u00a0Desperado, Machete, Sin City, Predators<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Sons of Anarchy<\/em>, executive produces alongside proficient producing team Adam Scorgie, Rocky Mudaliar, Iliana Nikolic and Craig Balkam.<\/p>\n From an early life of drugs, armed robbery and hard prison time, to the red carpets of Hollywood blockbusters all the way to helping troubled addicts; Trejo gives a firsthand account of one of the greatest transformations of human character ever put to film.<\/p>\n \u201cToday, Danny Trejo is temperate, benevolent and likely one of the nicest guys you\u2019ll ever meet. But he wasn\u2019t always this way\u201d, explains producer Adam Scorgie, whose credits include recent success\u00a0Ice Guardians<\/em>\u00a0and upcoming\u00a0Chasing Evel: The Robbie Knievel Story<\/em>\u00a0. \u201cGrowing up in the mean streets of Pacoima, California, he was raised and mentored by his uncle, a drug addict and armed robber. By the age of 12, he had tried heroin. By age 15, he was introduced to his first jail cell. At 23, he was sentenced to San Quentin for selling a $30,000 bag of heroin to an undercover agent. From bad to worse, he boxed his way through the prison jungle, winning fight after fight and learning self-discipline along the way. Surviving some of the most hostile conditions in the country, Danny would eventually find himself involved in a prison riot that would lead to the turning point in his approach to life.\u201d<\/p>\n Upon his release from prison in 1969, Danny\u2019s life took a turn for the better. He started counseling teen drug addicts and working as a boxing coach. One chance meeting led to another and eventually, he found himself on the set of Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky’s\u00a0Runaway Train\u00a0<\/em>(1985), where he was hired to train the film\u2019s star, Eric Roberts how to box.<\/p>\n During the course of his illustrious acting career, Trejo has worked with such heavyweights as Quentin Tarantino, Antoine Fuqua, Michael Mann, Ivan Reitman and Robert Rodriguez.<\/p>\n Trejo recently completed filming\u00a0Death Race : Anarchy<\/em>\u00a0and western\u00a0Dead Again in Tombstone<\/em>, both for Universal Pictures. Shortly, he\u2019s expected to reprise his trademark role of Machete in a second sequel to Robert Rodriguez\u2019s cult classic.<\/p>\n Inmate #1 : The Rise of Danny Trejo<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is currently planning for a release fall 2018.<\/p>\n
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