Movie star sighting: Danny Trejo spotted in Syracuse as new film movies

“Machete” is in Central New York.

Actor Danny Trejo was noticed at Blink Exercise Onondaga on Tuesday, working out as a new movie shoots domestically. Trejo, donning a Los Angeles Rams hat times after his preferred football staff won the Tremendous Bowl, posed for a photograph with the Syracuse gym’s supervisor, Brandon Anderson.

Anderson, who posted a image of the celeb come across on Instagram, stated Trejo informed him he’s in city to shoot a film.

Liverpool-centered American Substantial is at this time filming “The Binge 2: It’s a Superb Binge,” a getaway-themed sequel to 2020′s “The Binge.”

Vince Vaughn (“Wedding Crashers”), Skyler Gisondo (“The Remarkable Spider-Man”), Dexter Darden (“Saved By the Bell”), and Eduardo Franco (“Booksmart”) starred in the initially movie. A forged has not been officially introduced for “The Binge 2,” but Darden and Franco ended up noticed on set filming Christmas get together scenes in downtown Syracuse last week.

A casting phone previous thirty day period hinted at Trejo’s involvement in the sequel, trying to get a “Danny Trejo lookalike” for an unspecified American Superior project. It’s unclear if the role was for a Trejo stunt double or a stand-in.

Trejo, 77, has appeared in far more than 400 motion pictures and Television reveals, including “Machete,” “Machete Kills,” “From Dusk Until Dawn,” “Heat,” “The Flash,” “Death Race 2,” “Muppets Most Wanted,” “Sons of Anarchy,” “Breaking Poor,” “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” “Desperado,” “Modern Family members,” “Con Air,” “Spy Kids” and the new “Star Wars” series “The E-book of Boba Fett.” He also owns various L.A. places to eat, such as Trejo’s Tacos and Trejo’s Donuts, and not long ago posted an autobiography, “Trejo: My Lifetime of Criminal offense, Redemption, and Hollywood.”

“The Binge,” shot in 2019, was the biggest film ever manufactured in Syracuse with extra than 2,000 extras and 50-60 nearby crew associates. Scenes were being shot at Syracuse Studios (formerly the A.V. Zogg Middle School in Liverpool), Onondaga Lake Parkway, Hanover Square, Carnegie Library, Clinton Sq., Village Burger in Liverpool, a bridge in Van Buren, and the Better Syracuse Soundstage (previously regarded as the nano movie hub in DeWitt).

Jordan VanDina, who wrote the initial “Binge” movie, will make his directorial debut with “The Binge 2.″

“In the in close proximity to long term all ingesting and drugs are banned apart from for 1 glorious working day regarded as The Binge,” the new film’s synopsis suggests. “This 12 months that day takes place to miraculously land on Xmas. Check out a holiday getaway experience like you have never viewed prior to that consists of magical storybooks, catchy music, wonderful cease motion animation and a Xmas saga that will not be soon forgotten… and medication! Plenty of them! Merry Bingemas!”

American Significant founder Jeremy Garelick, who directed the initially “The Binge” motion picture, will develop the sequel alongside with Will Phelps, Ryan Bennett and Molle DeBartolo. Andrew Reyes will government deliver the challenge.

“The Binge 2: It is a Great Binge” is the to start with franchise for American High, which lately wrapped its 12th movie in the Syracuse spot in four several years. Other American Superior titles involve “Sex Charm,” “Plan B,” “Massive Time Adolescence,” “Looks That Destroy,” “The Ultimate Playlist of Sound,” “Holly Slept Over” and “Banana Spit,” together with the impending releases “I Love My Dad,” “Sid is Dead,” “Love in Coloration,” and “Empire Midsection.”

A launch date has not been introduced for “The Binge 2,” but presented the getaway theme it will probably come out about Xmas on Hulu.

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