Sin City 2

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"Sin City" scribe and co-director Frank Miller has revealed to Now Playing Magazine that he and director Robert Rodriguez are "working on the final touches of how the story [for Sin City 2] is going to work, and we're right now planning to start shooting in January."

While this may seem like an accelerated timetable, the push can be attributed to the first film's box office success as well as Rodriguez's inability to remain idle. "Robert doesn't mess around - he gets right to it," Miller explains. It's unknown at this time whether Miller will make another cameo in the new movie - in the first, he played a priest murdered by Mickey Rourke's Marv character.

Miller also notes that the plot for the second film will come from his acclaimed Sin City graphic novel A Dame To Kill For, "plus a new story that I've created for [the movie] that weaves in and out of the larger story." This should comfort fans who are worried that the film franchise will end when the previously-published material runs out. As Miller puts it, "I don't really plan on running out of [material] 'cause I'm still doing [the comics]. ... There's material in my head that could go on forever."

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Buena Vista Home Entertainment has just revealed complete details for Sin City: Recut & Extended Edition.

The disc will be available on December 13th, with the two-disc set will featuring both the 124-minute theatrical cut, as well as a new 147-minute extended version presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS Surround tracks. Read on for the massive list of extra fetaures...

Bonus materials will include commentary with directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, a second track with Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and a third with the Austin Premiere crowd.

More extras included are "A Hard Top With a Decent Engine: The Cars of Sin City," "Making the Monsters: Special Effects Make-Up," "Trench Coats & Fishnets: The Costumes of Sin City," "Booze Broads & Guns: The Props of Sin City," "How It Went Down: Convincing Frank Miller To Make the Film," "Giving the Characters Life: Casting the Film," "Special Guest Director: Quentin Tarantino," "The Movie in High-Speed Green Screen," "15 Minute Film School with Robert Rodriguez," "10 Minute Cooking School with Robert Rodriguez," "The Long Take: 17 Uninterrupted Minutes of Tarantino's Segment," "Sin City Night at Antones" cast & crew party, bloopers, a "Sin-Chroni-City" Interactive Game, teaser and theatrical trailers.

Rounding out the package will be a special edition printing of original Sin City graphic novel "The Hard Goodbye."

Retail will be $39.99.

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Sin City TV Series in the Works
Source: Variety
October 24, 2005


Variety reports that the Weinstein brothers' newly formed studio, The Weinstein Co., will develop a Sin City TV series:

Also in the works are a [series] based on Dimension Films' "Sin City" -- which would follow in the footsteps of 2006's second pic in Robert Rodriguez's "Sin" series -- and a [series] based on the Miramax title "Rounders," capitalizing on the current craze for poker playing.

The "Sin City" movie franchise moved to the Weinstein brothers' company after they went their separate way from Disney's

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Damn, they're going all out on SIN CITY!

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Angelina Jolie on Playing Ava in Sin City 2

It was reported earlier this year that Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller were interested in Angelina Jolie playing a lead role in the sequel to Sin City. Jolie was pregnant at the time, however, which would push back production, and Rodriguez instead started filming Grindhouse with Quentin Tarantino. ComingSoon.net/SuperheroHype.com caught up with The Good Shepherd star to ask whether she is still up for playing the role of Ava in the anticipated second film.

"We talked about it and I read the comic," Jolie told us. "I don't think the film is being made at this moment. When it's actually going to be made I'm sure we'll talk about it.

"It was a funny thing, because the idea came to me when I was pregnant," she added. "So it was this idea... I've been Clover (in 'The Good Shepherd'), depressed and quiet, and then I was feeling very maternal, pregnant. It was this idea of this sexy, violent and loud [character]... I thought maybe after I'm pregnant it would be nice to do."

It sounds like Rodriguez and Miller have their Ava if everything works out. A start date for Sin City 2 has not been announced.

In the graphic novel, Ava Lord is the dame to kill for. She is an ex-lover of Dwight McCarthy (Clive Owen) who manipulates men through her good looks and her supposed innocence.

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Casting Rumors for Sin City 2

Acting superstar Johnny Depp and Antonio Banderas (two of Robert Rodriguez' old friends) could be the next names to join the cast of SIN CITY 2, according to MTV. This would be their first film together since Once Upon A Time in Mexico.

"[Depp] was interested in doing the Jackie Boy character that Benicio [Del Toro] played [in the first one], but he was doing that movie 'Libertine' in Europe and it just kept getting pushed and delayed and went right through our shooting schedule," Rodriquez said. "But there is a better role for him in ['Hell and Back']. I kept going, 'Gosh, Jackie Boy is a small part, he could be really good [as Wallace].' When he wasn't available, I thought maybe it was meant to be."

Here's a little about what he had to say about Banderas, "When I showed him the first sample of the work, he went, 'Man I'll do anything in that. I'll be the hunchback. You have to bring me onboard, that looks amazing,' " Rodriguez recalled. "So Frank met him that time too and he said, 'I have got to find something for that guy. I've never met him before. He's amazing.' [So we're] looking at the cast of characters and [looking] to see where he can fit."