You wouldn’t expect an ultra low-budget movie shot in 10 days to spawn a sequel, but that’s exactly what last year’s South by Southwest premiere “Women in Trouble” has done.
And you’d hardly expect that sequel, “Elektra Luxx,” to attract a wide variety of known actors, or to make up the middle part of a trilogy – but it does have a wide-ranging cast, and according to writer/director Sebastian Gutierrez, who debuts his new film Sunday night at SXSW, a third installment is already in the works.
“Why should trilogies only belong to ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Lord of the Rings?’” asks Gutierrez, a 35-year-old, Venezuelan-born director who has also worked on studio films like “Gothika,” “The Big Bounce” and “Snakes on a Plane.”