Much like Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Spy Kids: Armageddon involves video games — something director Robert Rodriguez knew he had to do, because his kids told him.
When writer-director Robert Rodriguez set out to make a new Spy Kids movie, he went to bounce ideas around with some very trusted collaborators: his kids.
“They had a whole list of things: You have to have a safehouse. […] And you have to bring a video game element back,” says Rodriguez.
Rodriguez took both notes for Netflix’s Spy Kids: Armageddon, in which he integrates video games directly into the spy story. He made the same move in 2003’s Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, which he recalls fondly as “the biggest of the Spy Kids movies.” But it’s been 20 years since Game Over, which means he had to address video games in a 2023 way.
That goes beyond the basics of the plot: This time around, the video game leaks into the real world before the kids enter the game.
