Rodriguez had this to say about some of the characters that he’s apparently saving for sequels:
"Some people who didn't die in the film actually did die, I just cut out their deaths. [I did so because] I wanted to save them for a sequel, but you actually see that they did perish. Where the movie will go next? I have a bunch of ideas for it. It's all in the end titles. We have to make them, of course, Machete Kills and Machete Kills Again. Once you put it out there, just like we did with the trailer, you have to make it. When I made that trailer, for years — more than Sin City 2 — people would say, 'when are you going to make 'Machete?' This movie is almost a response to the fans. If they hadn't been after me....about making the movie, I really don't think we would gotten around do doing it."
So apparently, if all goes well, we could be seeing more Machete films in a year or two. Or, if the movie bombs, will this be another case of Buckaroo Banzai Against The World Crime League? Of course, we're talking about a movie that was based on a fake trailer that was put into Grindhouse and was never intended to become a film in its own right, so maybe Rodriguez is just getting more meta than anyone is willing to give him credit for? He sure sounds serious about the sequel possibilities here, but I guess we'll know more when we see the first weekend's box office receipts.
