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Title: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on May 19, 2005, 07:07:27 PM
Creators plan sequel for dark 'Sin City'
Source: Hollywood Reporter

CANNES - Not everyone is enamoured with Robert Rodriguez's ultra-violent movie 'Sin City,' based on the dark comics of Frank Miller, but the creators are working on a sequel and the cast of stars is keen to carry on. The film, which has earned more than $72 million at the U.S. box office alone, is in Cannes as part of the main competition, raising eyebrows among veteran festival-watchers who are used to more artistic, less commercial fare.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: Raikus on May 19, 2005, 08:34:44 PM
That's excellent news. I'd be extremely happy to see more of Miller's stories turned into film. Yay to art and mainstream. Shake hands and dance!
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: metroshane on May 19, 2005, 11:33:37 PM
Where do they get off calling it mainstream?  There's absolutley nothing out there like it.  He's inventing a new media.  commercial?  Yes, that's just what middle America is waiting for...an ultra violent, cheesecake, black and white slut of a film.

I hate the people in the film world.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: The Perineum Falcon on May 19, 2005, 11:38:27 PM
Quote from: metroshaneWhere do they get off calling it mainstream?  There's absolutley nothing out there like it.  He's inventing a new media.  commercial?  Yes, that's just what middle America is waiting for...an ultra violent, cheesecake, black and white slut of a film.

I hate the people in the film world.

I thought 'commercial' and 'mainstream' were synonymous.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: Raikus on May 20, 2005, 10:00:06 AM
Quote from: ranemaka13
Quote from: metroshaneWhere do they get off calling it mainstream?  There's absolutley nothing out there like it.  He's inventing a new media.  commercial?  Yes, that's just what middle America is waiting for...an ultra violent, cheesecake, black and white slut of a film.

I hate the people in the film world.

I thought 'commercial' and 'mainstream' were synonymous.
Exactly.

"He brought art to the masses." How's that? It was a compliment towards Rodriguez, so unbind your doggy britches and take a walk.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on May 23, 2005, 09:53:56 PM
More info:

Sin City Sequel in the Works
Rodriguez reveals the next Miller book coming to screen.
Source: IGN.FilmForce
 
In many ways, CG has cheapened modern film. It's overused and it often replaces elements that probably would have looked better using more conventional methods. On the other hand, a stylized film that exists outside of reality can use CG work to its advantage. Sin City is the foremost example of this.

Based on Frank Miller's graphic novels and heavily steeped in sex and violence, Sin City is a visual assault on the senses. Each frame looks like a near work of art, complete with splattering blood, nude women and gritty film nourish cityscapes.

Sin City has had a terrific run at the box office, which now opens the door to adapting Miller's other books in the Sin City series. Speculation has existed since City's opening weekend of a likely sequel.

This weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, Rodriguez revealed to BBC that A Dame to Kill For would be the basis for the film and that it would feature many of the same characters from the first film. It's unclear at this point whether the film would be based on other Sin City stories as well.

Sin City is in contention for the Palme d'Or prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: RegularKarate on May 23, 2005, 10:49:07 PM
Dame to Kill For is a good one (it brings the best character, Marv back), but it doesn't have enough material to fill an entire film without just adding unneeded shit.

I think a sequel would be a mistake anyway.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: Myxo on May 24, 2005, 11:04:11 AM
Quote from: RegularKarateDame to Kill For is a good one (it brings the best character, Marv back), but it doesn't have enough material to fill an entire film without just adding unneeded shit.

I think a sequel would be a mistake anyway.

So, will they go with Sin City 2 or Dame to Kill For?

I like the second title.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: Pubrick on May 24, 2005, 11:07:23 AM
we don't know.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on February 17, 2006, 11:05:51 PM
Miller on Sin City 2
An original story makes the film a true sequel.

Little Nancy Callahan is making a return in Sin City 2. At last week's WonderCon in San Francisco, Frank Miller spoke briefly on the sequel to 2005's Sin City. Filming is expected to being in May or June, meaning that a spring 2007 release is likely.

It was already revealed that the film would adapt one of the best Sin stories, "A Dame to Kill For". That, however, won't be the only story featured in the next movie. Miller is writing a brand new story to weave throughout the film. The new tale follows Nancy Callahan after the events of "That Yellow Bastard" and shows how she was affected by Hartigan's suicide.

Several shorts are also going to be featured. Miller hinted that "Blue Eyes" and perhaps a few other shorts from the book Lost, Lonely, and Lethal could make the final cut and see near-perfect panel-to-screen translations.

Casting is still unknown, but "A Dame to Kill For" would bring back several characters from last film, including Gail, played by Rosario Dawson. Dwight, played by Clive Owen in the first film, is the star of "Dame". However, in this story (which takes place before the events of the first film), Dwight has a different face, so it's unclear if Owen would still be cast in the role. Also appearing in "Dame" and likely Sin City 2 are Miho, Manute and Marv. Yeah, Marv is back, albeit in a smaller role.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on March 13, 2006, 06:19:03 PM
Jolie in Sin City 2?
So says Rosario Dawson.

Rosario Dawson told Sci Fi Wire that Oscar winner Angelina Jolie might star in Sin City 2. Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez has postponed production on the highly anticipated sequel in order to accomodate Jolie's pregnancy.

"The film's been kind of postponed because Robert has been interested in Angelina Jolie for the lead," Dawson said. "But she's very pregnant right now. So that's putting an understandable hold on the film."

Sin City 2 will reportedly be based on Frank Miller's tales "A Dame to Kill for" and "Lost, Lonely and Lethal." Dawson will reprise her role as the ass-kicking hooker Gail.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on March 30, 2006, 11:11:05 AM
'Sin City' Characters — Even Dead Ones — Returning For Sequel
Time-jumping film will resurrect star Mickey Rourke; Jessica Alba, Clive Owen are back too.
Source: MTV

Marv died in "Sin City" — but that doesn't mean Mickey Rourke won't be back for the sequel.

Ditto for Dwight (Clive Owen), Shellie (Brittany Murphy), Nancy (Jessica Alba), Manute (Michael Clarke Duncan), Gail (Rosario Dawson) and the rest of the Old Town gang. That's because "Sin City" is the "Pulp Fiction" of comic-book adaptations — since the interlinking stories aren't linear, when it comes time for the next installment in theaters, you'll get a prequel and a sequel at the same time.

"It jumps around a bit," writer/co-director Frank Miller said, "but mostly it's one story, incorporating some short stories that weave in and out of that."

Miller, who wrote and illustrated the hard-boiled graphic-novel series the films are based on, said he is "well in progress" on the screenplay for "Sin City 2" and anticipates that he and co-director Robert Rodriguez should be shooting as early as June in Austin, Texas.

The first "Sin City" took its stories from the first, third and fourth books — "The Hard Goodbye," "The Big Fat Kill" and "That Yellow Bastard." This next one will jump back in the sequence and derive most of its story from the second book, "A Dame to Kill For." But even though it's the second book, the action is set before book one, developing Dwight's past, loves, lusts and alliances.

Before Marv sleeps with Goldie, before Detective Hartigan finds skinny little Nancy all grown up and dancing at a strip joint, Dwight has a love affair with Ava, who leaves him to marry someone wealthy. Four years later, Ava's back, claiming the marriage is no good, and asking Dwight to help her out. This being "Sin City," you know there's more to the story than that. (And that to-die-for dame? Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek and Rose McGowan have all been tipped to play the femme fatale, but a rep for the studio said there's no word on Ava yet.)

Miller is also toying with incorporating "Blue Eyes," a short story that introduces the assassin Delia. The chain of events helps set up "The Hard Goodbye" and "The Big Fat Kill" in the original film, but what about what happens next? Miller is also writing a new story that'll explore what happens to Nancy after Hartigan's suicide. "Yeah, there will be surprises, but they wouldn't be surprises if I told you, would they?" Miller said.

The stories are also going to be as graphic as the first "Sin City" film — graphic in violence as well as style, showcasing the fully digital live action that made the film one of the most faithful comic adaptations yet to hit the screen. "My drawings were up on a special monitor, where they would move the camera to match my compositions," Miller explained.

After more than 10 years of turning down offers to sell the screen rights to his work, Miller finally relented because Rodriguez demonstrated that he could re-create the comic's stark look. That's what made him sign on for a sequel, due in 2007, as well as more to follow.

"I was very, very fortunate," Miller said. "I won the lottery the first time out and got to do the movie it needed to be, a movie that knew what it was, and didn't have to go through the bureaucratic nonsense that most movies do."

So many movies are being made from graphic novels lately because "Hollywood sees us as a vital source of material," Miller said. The problem, though, is that Hollywood usually wants to tinker with the source material and make it "some vehicle with some star with a slapped-on happy ending because some focus group asked for it," he said.

And Miller, like his pulp characters, isn't about to let anyone sully his name. He's resolved not to let any of his other comics be adapted without him behind the camera. "I can't send my little baby down like Moses in the river and say goodbye to her," Miller said.

Of course, it's a little too late with "300," his graphic novel about the Battle of Thermopylae, the film version of which is being directed by Zack Snyder ("Dawn of the Dead"), because he sold the screen rights before he caught the directing bug. Miller is one of the producers, however, so he does have some say about the script, and so far, he's happy with how it's turning out.

"What I've seen of it, when I saw the set, when I saw the script, it looks like the book, it feels like it," Miller said. "It's always hard to predict these things, especially if you're not the director, but I like what I've seen."
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on January 17, 2007, 02:14:53 PM
Rachel Weisz In Sin City 2
Source: Cinema Blend

Almost since the first Sin City debuted back in 2005, it's been pretty clear that Robert Rodriguez has wanted Angelina Jolie as the star of the sequel Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For. Somehow though, Jolie just hasn't been able to fit it into her schedule. Now, after a lot of delays on the project, it looks like she may have been replaced.

A source claiming to be close to the production contacted me tonight to let us know that Angelina Jolie is out, and Rachel Weisz is in. Our source, who asked to remain anonymous, says that Rachel is in talks with Robert Rodriguez's people about taking on the role of Ava Lord, the titular "Dame to Kill For" in the original comic on which Sin City 2 is going to be based. If she gets locked in, rumor has it that Sin City 2 will finally start shooting in 2008.

Now a disclaimer. I hate anonymous sources as much as anyone else. Don't rely on them, I don't. Please take the above as nothing more than a wild and completely unsubstantiated rumor until we can find some less anonymous confirmation.

As for Rachel Weisz, Sin City 2 definitely sounds like the kind of movie she'd be interested in. In that sense the rumor works. But I have hard time picturing her as a dame to kill for. I love Rachel Weisz, she's a brilliant and beautiful actress, but she's not exactly the same type of smoking hot bombshell you'd get in Angelina Jolie. If you're looking for someone to play a woman so hot men kill for her, you look for a more smoldering beauty. Scarlett Johansson maybe.

But that doesn't mean Robert Rodriguez won't cast her anyway. We'll keep an eye out for more information on this rumor as it develops.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: Pubrick on January 17, 2007, 09:51:50 PM
cinema blend is right, she ain't a dame to kill for.

since rodriguez only cares about getting the job done on time and under budget, he might never realize this.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on February 23, 2007, 12:42:58 AM
Miller: Sin 2 Is Ready To Go

Frank Miller, who wrote and co-directed Sin City based on his popular graphic novels, told SCI FI Wire that Sin City 2 is a go and that he hopes to be in Texas to shoot the film by late spring. Miller and Robert Rodriguez will again share directing duties on the sequel.

"The script is largely done, and now we're in that limbo zone where we're casting and making script adjustments as we go," Miller said in an interview while promoting 300, which he executive-produced and which is also based on one of his graphic novels.

Miller added that the sequel will be based on A Dame to Kill for, the second Sin City tale and a prequel to The Hard Goodbye, which was the basis of one of the first film's storylines. The sequel will also deal with "a couple of old stories and one brand-new one," Miller said. "The old ones are a couple of 'Blue Eyes' stories, and there's an 'Old Town Girls' story, and the new one features Nancy Callahan [played by Jessica Alba] in a very different, very scary role. I'm hoping we'll start in late spring. It gets pretty hot in Austin, so there might be a summer's interruption there, but both Robert and I really want to be shooting this thing as soon as possible."
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on March 27, 2007, 12:46:49 AM
Depp, Banderas To Call 'Sin City' Home? Rodriguez, Dawson Talk Sequels
Director, star enthused about volume two — and three.
Source: MTV

BEVERLY HILLS, California — Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find almost anything — even details about the neo-noir blockbuster's next two installments.

"Basically ['Sin City 2'] is based on [the 'Sin City' story] 'A Dame to Kill For,' which has a lot of the old characters still alive because it's a prequel to ['The Big Fat Kill']," director Robert Rodriguez revealed. "[Author and co-director] Frank Miller's already written the script. Right now we're just talking about when we're going to get started."

Count in Rosario Dawson. The 27-year-old actress said she is "very excited" to reprise her role as Gail, the leather-clad prostitute whose love/hate relationship with Dwight (Clive Owen) fuels much of the story.

"There are a couple of sentences and things [Clive and I] say back and forth to each other [in 'The Big Fat Kill'] like, 'Oh, it's been so long since you've been here,' and, 'After we did what we did for you, why then did you leave?' Because it's a prequel to the [first movie's] middle story — which is the one I was in with Clive. That story line is going to be explained," she reported. She added enthusiastically: "I'm really looking forward to going in there and doing it again, because there are things I would have loved to do more with the character."

Among those things she's most looking forward to, Dawson grinned, is a new outfit that would make most grown women blush.

"I'm trying to figure out how to top my outfit [from the first one]. I was like, 'Geez, I'm going to have to be down to pasties and a thong,' " the "Grindhouse" star laughed. "But I'm very excited to be wearing a [dominatrix] mask in this one. I wanted to have it in the first one, but they [said], 'You can't cover your face, it defeats the purpose.' But I want it to look as realistic as possible."

By "realistic," of course, Dawson meant faithful to the graphic novel, not true to any real-world experience. But she did hint that this time around the experience should feel much more "regular" — at least in terms of narrative.

"Rather than the first 'Sin City,' where it was three different books kind of put together with different time frames, this is one full story all the way through," Dawson explained of the film's plot. "So it will be a much more regular movie in that sense — well, as much as 'Sin City' and black-and-white craziness can be regular."

Fans should expect anything but a "regular" experience in the third "Sin City." Rodriguez suggested it will revolve around "Hell and Back," the story of Wallace, a brooding artist who, due to being drugged repetitively, wanders through most of the tale hallucinating.

But if you think that's weird, wait until you see how it's played ... by Johnny Depp?

"He 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 of the actor he directed in "Once Upon a Time in Mexico." "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."

While no deal is in place for Depp at the moment, Rodriguez seemed coyly confident they would get the Oscar-nominated actor. The director was equally excited about potentially casting another of his old favorites, Antonio 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."

With Miller excited, Banderas might not have to wait long — the author has already rewritten some of his work to facilitate the new actors, recently adding in scenes in "A Dame to Kill For" with Jessica Alba's Nancy Callahan, for instance. But then, this is "Sin City" — walk down the right back alley and you can find almost anything.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: modage on May 29, 2007, 01:19:50 PM
from a Premiere interview with Michael Madsen...

When you do Inglorious Bastards, you are going to be in Paris for a while. Is that maybe going to be an opportunity to bring your family over to Europe?
Well, that would certainly be my plan. Johnny Depp figured that out. I love Johnny by the way. We did Donnie Brasco together. He's a good cat.

Talking about shooting in Paris and Inglorious Bastards, is that what you are about to work on now?
I just finished Hellride for Quentin [Tarantino] on Wednesday, and then I had to go straight from the set to LAX. Hellride is a big giant motorcycle movie. I just saw Quentin at the Martinez [Hotel in Cannes]. He is looking well. But he is writing Inglorious Bastards. We haven't started shooting yet. He is still out promoting Death Proof.

Some of the other things that you have got coming up include Sin City 2.

They haven't shot it yet. I don't know if they ever will. I am not sure [about] the franchise. I think the Grindhouse thing didn't kind of work out...

...as well as they had hoped. Certainly not in the States.
I don't know what effect that is going to have on making Sin City 2. Sin City was Mickey [Rourke]'s film. Mickey is fucking incredible in that fucking movie. He is the movie. And I am happy for Mickey. Mickey is the real deal. Mickey is Mickey. And you can't fuck with that. And he did a tremendous job in that thing. The only reason I did it was because Robert Rodriguez said that if I took that little part I would get a bigger role in the sequel, that Bob would have more to do in the sequel. So I said: "Okay, fine." I am sitting on an apple box [in front of a green screen] and then when you see the movie, you're in a car. I don't understand it. I don't know how to do that. I don't get it.

Have you seen the script for Sin City 2 yet?
No. I talk to Frank Miller quite often. He came up to my house and we drank a lot of tequila. Frank is pretty funny. I haven't seen the script for Sin City 2. I don't know if they are gonna make it. I hope they do. And if and when they do, I will be in it.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on May 31, 2007, 12:17:47 AM
Sin City 2 Still on, But It Will Have to Wait
Source: Rotten Tomatoes

A few days ago, Michael Madsen was quoted saying that the poor performance of Grindhouse might affect whether Sin City 2 will be made. Not true, according to words from Frank Miller in a new interview at Rotten Tomatoes:

Of course, by stroke of coincidence we learned just before we sat down with Miller that Robert Rodriguez had been signed onto a remake of the classic sixties sex flick "Barbarella." So what of "Sin City 2"? Rumours swirl that the project has been stalled by the breakdown of Rodriguez' marriage. "Sin City 2 is still likely to happen," says Miller, "just not right away. The script is written and Robert and I are raring to go, but it looks like I'm going to be doing The Spirit first and Robert's going to be doing Barbarella first."
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: bonanzataz on May 31, 2007, 03:30:13 AM
god, grindhouse really fucked EVERYTHING up, huh?

yeah it was a pretty good three hours in a movie theater (in my opinion, anyway), but it broke up rodriguez's marriage, made everybody hate tarantino, in all likelihood, it made the weinsteins wary of giving any kind of film experiment any kind of budget, and now sin city 2 (a movie that would've made a huge amount of money) might not even get made (and if it ever does, will anybody care so long after the first one?).

this might even herald the end of the auteur (at least with big budgets anyway). i mean, if the two star directors that made independent cinema mainstream failed miserably, how will any studio give anybody with a decent idea free reign?

...this movie really fucked EVERYTHING...
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on June 07, 2007, 12:12:34 PM
Frank Miller's Return Trip To 'Sin City' Still Moving Forward
Source: MTV

Walk down the right back alley in "Sin City" and you can find almost anything. Walk down the red carpet at the MTV Movie Awards and you can find even more.

Two years after "Sin City" thrilled audiences with its revolutionary style, author and co-director Frank Miller was eager to tease fans with talk of the sequel. "Robert [Rodriguez] and I have a script and we're all raring to go. We're aching to get started," he said. "I want to work with that crew again...that wonderful cast."

Rodriguez previously revealed to MTV News that the film will be an adaptation of Miller's "A Dame to Kill For," a prequel to "The Big Fat Kill." But what Miller could really use is a Big Fat Starting Date. With Miller set to direct "The Spirit" and Rodriguez gearing up for a remake of "Barbarella," it was recently announced that filming on the sequel would be pushed back.

"There was just some problems above us that I don't understand...that I don't really want to understand," Miller said matter of factly about studio delays in pre-production. All of which shouldn't bum out fans, he insisted, since he expects not only to eventually film "Sin City 2," but "Sin City 3" as well. That story, Rodriguez divulged, would concentrate on Miller's "Hell and Back," the story of a hallucinating artist named Wallace. Rumors have persisted for months that the role of Wallace was being written for Johnny Depp, a casting coup that Rodriguez himself was coyly confident would eventually happen.

As for Miller? "I ain't talking cast until we're actually shooting," he said, a large smile crossing his face at the possibility of getting Depp, "or close to it!"
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on April 22, 2009, 10:16:59 PM
'Sin City' sequel up for grabs?
Dimension's option on rights appears to have lapsed
Source: Hollywood Reporter

The sequel rights to "Sin City," Frank Miller's popular noir comic, are being shopped around Hollywood, in what appears to be a sign that Dimension Films has lost rights to the property.

The Weinstein Co./Dimension continue to maintain that they hold the rights to any sequel for the Robert Rodriguez film, which grossed $159 million worldwide when it came out in 2005.

But producers say they have been shopped the rights by reps for Miller's estate, who they say are seeking a new place to set up a potential follow-up.

If the Weinsteins' option did lapse, it could have happened for reasons ranging from development inactivity to a decision not to pay to re-up. Sequel rights generally require a certain amount of activity within a defined period to remain with the original rights holder, though in many deals those periods stretch much longer than the four years that have elapsed since the original "Sin City" came out.

It is unclear what kind of involvement Rodriguez, who directed the first movie and has strong connections to both TWC and Miller, would have with a potential sequel.

"Sin City," starring Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis and Rosario Dawson, was made for about $45 million and told the story of corruption in the fictional Basin City; it garnered praise for its stylized violence and dark themes.

After its release, Dimension quickly put a sequel into development, with Angelina Jolie expressing interest in a role. The project, however, has since languished in development.

Online rumors that Dimension had lost the rights first surfaced several weeks ago but were quashed by TWC attorney Bert Fields, who called them "hogwash."

"TWC's rights to produce sequels to 'Sin City' remain intact as they always have been," he stated at the time. TWC said Wednesday that it stood by that statement.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on April 12, 2012, 06:21:44 PM
'Sin City' Sequel Is A Go For Robert Rodriguez And Frank Miller
BY MIKE FLEMING | Deadline

This will be welcome news for fans of the stylized and gritty adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City that prompted Robert Rodriguez to exit the Directors Guild because the DGA wouldn't let Miller co-direct the film with Rodriguez. Dimension Films, which released the first, announced that deals have been made and casting is underway. Rodriguez will have another sequel selling at Cannes. That is the Danny Trejo-starrer Machete 2, and I've heard that Rodriguez is chasing cast that includes Michelle Williams and Mel Gibson. Here's the release on 'Sin City.'

AUSTIN, TX (12 April 2012) — Filmmakers Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, along with producer Alexander Rodnyansky, have announced that production will commence on the highly anticipated sequel to 2005's Sin City, entitled Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. The film will be produced by AR Films and Quick Draw Productions, financed through AR Films U.S and released domestically by Dimension Films.

"The first question I am always asked is "When will you make another Sin City? ," said Rodriquez. "I have wanted to re-team with Frank Miller and return to the world he created since the day we wrapped the original, but have felt a duty to the fans to wait until we had something truly exceptional that would meet and exceed what have become epic expectations. A Dame To Kill For will certainly be worth the wait."

Sin City creator, screenwriter and co-director Frank Miller said, "The first Sin City knocked out audiences who had never seen anything like it before. Robert Rodriguez and I are going to shake things up and deliver a ferocious film experience that is going to go even further than the first."
The script and details of the film's story have been kept tightly under wraps. Casting will begin next week, with many of the original cast expected to return. The film, a Quick Draw Production, will be produced by Rodriguez and producing partners Aaron Kaufman and Iliana Nikolic; and by Alexander Rodnyansky and Sergei Bespalov and Stephen L'Hereux. Miller, The Weinstein Company's Harvey and Bob Weinstein and Miramax's Adam Fields will act as executive producers. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For was developed by Frank Miller based upon his graphic novel, with a screenplay by Frank Miller and Academy Award winner William Monahan (The Departed). The film is expected to begin production this summer at Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas.
Alexander Rodnyansky said, "We are delighted to continue our relationship with Robert Rodriguez and Quick Draw Productions. It is a rare opportunity to produce and finance a film with the high profile and enormous fan base of the Sin City franchise. AR FIlms will be managing worldwide sales of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, as well as Robert's Machete Kills at the Cannes Film Festival in May."

The original Sin City was brought to the screen by Rodriguez and Miller and released by Dimension in 2005, and proved to be a landmark step forward in filmmaking, breaking ground with immersive green screen to create its iconic stylish look. The first film, released on April 1, 2005, grossed over $160 million (US) worldwide and is a consistently strong home video and television performer.

"Audiences have been clamoring for Sin City 2 with Robert and Frank for a long time and trust me, it will be worth the wait," said Bob Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Company. "This will be my 11th collaboration with Robert in 16 years and he's become a great friend. I look forward to continuing our long lasting relationship and partnering on more projects in the future."

The deal was negotiated by Aaron Kaufman, Craig Emanuel of Loeb & Loeb and Robert Newman of WME on behalf of Rodriguez; David Glasser and Andrew Kramer on behalf of Dimension Films; Schuyler Moore of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and Jere Hausfater on behalf of AR Films; Kenneth Keller and Garth Rosengren of Krieg, Keller, Sloan, Reilley & Roman and John LaViolette of Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman Schenkman & Goodman on behalf of Stephen L'Heureux and Solopsist Films; and Mark Lichtman and Neil Meyer and Allison Binder of Stone, Meyer, Genow, Smelkinson & Binder on behalf of Miller.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on May 17, 2012, 04:39:05 PM
'Sin City' Sequel Gets a Release Date
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller are co-directing the movie, which will shoot this summer in Austin, Texas.
Source: THR

Dimension Films has set Oct. 4, 2013 for its sequel to Sin City, Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller are co-directing the movie, which is scheduled to shoot this summer in Austin, home of Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios.

Much of the cast from the first movie is expected to return, including Mickey Rourke, whose character Marv was killed in the 2005 movie.

A hunt is on for actors to fill in the new roles.
The movie will once again be made in the same black-and-white and highly stylized format, though this time the movie will be in 3D. 

The film will be released by Dimension Films in the US and Canada, and produced by Quick Draw Productions, AR Films, Miramax and Solipsist.



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Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on January 29, 2013, 03:09:00 PM
Eva Green & Julia Garner Are The Latest Dames To Kill For In 'Sin City 2'
Source: Playlist

Robert Rodriguez's CGI-heavy and visually stylistic "Sin City" movies require heavy technical demands, but also allow him a flexibility in filmmaking. Essentially, since everything is on green screens, and thanks to advances in technology, shooting can take place whenever cast members are available, and then everything can be stitched together afterward. Actors in the same scene don't necessarily don't have to be on the same set on the same day, so it's no surprise that as cameras keep rolling on "Sin City: A Dame To Kill For," new cast members are being added.

The latest are Eva Green and the rising Julia Garner, who will play the femme fatale Ava Lord and a stripper tied into Joseph Gordon-Levitt's gambler Johnny, respectively. Ava Lord is the ex-lover of Dwight (played by Clive Owen in the first film), who has Manute (now played by Dennis Haysbert replacing the late Michael Clarke Duncan) wrapped around her finger as her manservant. As for Garner's role, not much else is known, but she's an actress who we called "If...not the next big thing, she's probably the next, next big thing" after seeing perfromance in "Electrick Children" at the Berlin International Film Festival last year. And with roles since in "Perks Of Being A Wallflower," "Not Fade Away," "The Last Excorcism Part II" and now this, it seems to be the case.

"Sin City: A Dame To Kill For" arrives on October 4th.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on March 06, 2014, 04:20:48 PM
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: 03 on March 06, 2014, 05:48:11 PM
THANK YOU GOD
im a huge geek for the first one, and the comics, so i think i just blew a brain cell.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: Axolotl on March 06, 2014, 05:51:44 PM
Wait. Is that Steven Soderbergh at 0:40?

Like how they included dialogue that contains the title. What are some other examples-

"I guess we're just a bunch of USUAL SUSPECTS, huh"
"I told you Eli, I told you THERE WILL BE BLOOD!"
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: Pubrick on March 09, 2014, 11:55:31 AM
Quote from: Axolotl on March 06, 2014, 05:51:44 PM
Like how they included dialogue that contains the title. What are some other examples-

"I guess we're just a bunch of USUAL SUSPECTS, huh"
"I told you Eli, I told you THERE WILL BE BLOOD!"

you may want to take a look at this classic thread: http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=9146.0
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on June 11, 2014, 04:11:22 PM
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: MacGuffin on July 29, 2014, 09:03:34 AM
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: picolas on August 23, 2014, 07:49:44 PM
*vague spoilers but you really don't care*

this is easily one of the dumbest movies i've ever seen. key examples:

- everyone who plays poker against powers boothe is tortured on principle. every character knows this will happen. so why the fuck would anyone ever play against him??? there's always four or five people playing. it makes NO SENSE.
- rosario dawson's plan to take down the big boss's lair is to throw a big bomb at it. this works flawlessly. nicely done rosario. checkmate.
- mickey rourke approaches josh brolin and tells him "i hope you don't mind me sayin... that right there... is a dame to kill for." brolin doesn't react to this at all.
- jessica alba keeps pointing a loaded gun at powers boothe, often in a very public setting with a look of resentful anger on her face, not pulling the trigger, then going off to the shooting range and speaking to a grave about how some day she's going to kill that guy. one of his henchmen notices this strange behaviour and tells him about it. "it's like she's building to something..."

the original sin city was fun because it took noir and exploded it, both visually and conceptually. this movie is only the visuals. nothing surprising EVER happens. nearly every line of dialogue brings nothing to the table. it's like "i was a man and she was a woman. i wanted to have sex with her. i did."

the structure is a thoughtless sandwich:

10 minutes of jessica alba's story i don't really care about.
20 minutes of joseph gordon levitt's story i vaguely care about (because he's fucking with powers boothe like nothing's going to happen to him.. how's he going to get out of this??)
a solid 45 of josh brolin/eva green, uninterrupted.
10 minutes of joseph gordon levitt. forgot about that guy. i guess he didn't have any kind of plan after all.
20 minutes of jessica alba, the most boring and predictable story.

i honestly think frank miller has contempt for cinema. or at least considers it a format for dumb people. i know he can write compelling stuff in comic books, but both this and the spirit are so idiotically written and directed. what makes movies so different for him? obviously he doesn't understand how to work with actors, but he's not even writing in the same league as he does for comics. i don't get it.

eva green looks nice.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: Lottery on August 24, 2014, 10:50:53 AM
Man, Frank Miller looks like he's dying. Seriously frail and ill in appearance.

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi222.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fdd65%2FBuzzetta_photos%2Ffrank-miller-comic-con-sin-city-2.jpg&hash=263e12f325823622b4be7d25232a3a1bd7f4f809)
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: Axolotl on August 24, 2014, 11:18:45 AM
Frank Miller IS that feel

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reactionface.info%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2F1345606456713.gif&hash=4a86f1893012dc2bc756f9ca58cb7e92ba607668)
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: jenkins on August 24, 2014, 05:07:33 PM
sounds like this year's furious six, except everyone hates it because they notice it don't seem right. i don't think you gotta seem right, this movie is calling my name from redbox, and imo the curveball here is a potential dame to killer for > transcendence. i was terrified during transcendence, i was rattling in my disinterest. i might hate this, which i think is better than disinterest as a viewing choice. mildly excited. it might equal robocop and i question all of my life decisions
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on August 24, 2014, 08:19:53 PM
Picolas nailed it as usual. I would only add a few things...

The Eva Green story is just a tad misogynistic, right? And the whole movie feels lecherous in a way the first one didn't. So I guess I had a gross feeling in general.

It did deliver some stunning sequences and real moments of genius, though. There's 30-45 minutes of this film that I would watch again. Favorite visual was probably the car chase going around Marv's head as he was jogging his memory.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: polkablues on August 24, 2014, 10:13:47 PM
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on August 24, 2014, 08:19:53 PM
The Eva Green story is just a tad misogynistic, right? And the whole movie feels lecherous in a way the first one didn't.

It's Frank Miller, so if any part of it didn't feel lecherous and misogynistic, it was a mistake.
Title: Re: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on August 24, 2014, 11:06:47 PM
Quote from: polkablues on August 24, 2014, 10:13:47 PM
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on August 24, 2014, 08:19:53 PM
The Eva Green story is just a tad misogynistic, right? And the whole movie feels lecherous in a way the first one didn't.

It's Frank Miller, so if any part of it didn't feel lecherous and misogynistic, it was a mistake.

SPOILERS

Eva Green's story (and certainly her acting) played like an outright parody of movie misogyny, like Frank Miller browsed tvtropes.org until he found cliches that were sufficiently offensive. So much so, that I was sincerely expecting a twist or at least a moment of commentary. Nope. It was just like the JGL story; you're expecting a payoff or a turn of plot or a climax of some kind, but it just kind of ends, and it turns out it is what it is.

The lecherous stuff is pretty much everywhere. I know that's part of the whole Sin City thing (and maybe I'm remembering the original with rose-colored glasses), but here it feels less celebratory, and more like the expression of a sickness. It makes a couple of the voiceovers unintentionally creepy, when one of our protagonists pauses unexpectedly to go into pervert mode.

It feels like Frank Miller wrote this in a single afternoon while masturbating.