Machete risks being canceled?

Oversight Productions today said they want to cut ties with Robert Rodriguez’s Quick Draw Productions over the rights to Machete Kills. If successful, the court action could stop the release of the film – which Open Road acquired for distribution from Quick Draw last month. In documents filed Tuesday (read it here), the producers of 2010’s Machete are seeking to terminate the April 2012 agreement in which they granted director/producer Rodriguez the rights to make another action movie about the rogue Mexican Federale. The rights would revert back to Oversight. In their breach of contract and declaratory relief complaint, Rick Schwartz’s production and finance company also say they “have been damaged in a amount to be proven at the time of trial, but which Plaintiffs are informed and believe and based thereon allege exceeds $2 million.”

Starring Danny Trejo again in the title role with Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez – who where also in the original – Machete Kills features appearances by Charlie Sheen as the President of the United States, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Lady Gaga and Mel Gibson. The sequel is the second in what it supposed to be a trilogy, according to director Rodriguez. Machete Kills is supposed to be released in the spring of 2013.