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Sin City 2

5/17/12 - Dimension Films has set Oct. 4, 2013 for its sequel to Sin City, Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  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.  The film will be released by Dimension Films in the US and Canada, and produced by Quick Draw Productions, AR Films, Miramax and Solipsist.



7/21/11 – Robert Rodriguez says he’s working on the new Sin City movie with Frank Miller. They plan once again to co-direct the film, only this time using 3D. Miller is working on finishing the screenplay now, which has reverted back to the trio-of-storylines approach of the first movie—“A Dame to Kill For” plus two new stories Miller has devised. Many of the characters from the first film would reappear, and Rodriguez says he doesn’t see scheduling as a problem since in the last one the green screen allowed him to shoot actors in the same scene as much as eight months apart. No one has yet been cast, though the writer-director claims they could shoot it soon and quickly, as early as the fall.

12/21/09 - SCI FI Wire reported that the sequel to Robert Rodriguez's Sin City is still in the pipeline. "I can't say no, because I don't know it's no," Rodriguez said. "I know Frank wants to do it, I know I wanna do it, and it's always sort of a time permitting kind of thing, but it's not like I can tell you definitely we're starting. It's not my next picture, I know that. That doesn't mean that it's not the picture right after, because that's still a possibility. We still talk about doing that as early as later next year, but I haven't gotten into that yet." Rodriguez confirmed that Sin City 2 would contain brand-new material in addition to portions adapted from Miller's graphic novels. "That script, it was pre-existing, with some original stuff added to it to kind of catch yourself up with some characters," says Rodriguez.

8/13/09 – SCI FI Wire reported that director Robert Rodriguez briefly discussed a few of the upcoming films he's involved with.  Rodriguez said things were moving forward on Predators, the reboot/prequel film, which he's producing. Specifically, he said that he's loaned out his Austin, Texas, studio and crew to help breathe new life into the franchise. "I have a director on that [Nimród Antal], and it's my main crew that I usually use," he said. "It's taking place right there, so I get to walk in and see designs and comment on stuff and work on the script with him. We start shooting that pretty soon."  Another long-gestating project Rodriguez is attached to is Sin City 2, which he said is on the back burner and which lacks at least one important element. "Until I'm actually on the set, it's not happening," he confessed. "But we have a script—we just haven't shot it yet."  The recently announced futuristic sci-fi thriller Nervewrackers, which was originally scheduled for release April 16, 2010, was moved back. Rodriguez said that he hasn't forgotten about it. "That would be next year sometime," Rodriguez said. "I have a script for that." Finally, Rodriguez offered a few details about his proposed Jetsons live-action update, saying that he wouldn't render its futuristic world in the same way he did something equally far-out, like Sin City. "It would have to be a mix," he said. "It wouldn't be all green screen."

3/5/09 - Rosario Dawson, who will reprise the role of Gail in the proposed sequel to Frank Miller and Robert Rodrguez's Sin City 2, said she'll have a new accessory for her latex-clad dominatrix look.  "I get to wear a mask in this one," Dawson said. "Is that specific enough?"  The story of Sin City 2, "A Dame to Kill For," is set during the events of "The Hard Goodbye," one of the shorts in Sin City. "I think what's actually really fun about it is that we get to investigate a little bit more into the storyline that was actually in Sin City for that middle chapter, which is where Gail mostly was," Dawson said. "We get to investigate a little bit who is this man and what are they talking about when they say he's got a different face."

1/12/09 – SCIFI Wire reported that actress Jaime King became close with Frank Miller working on Sin City and The Spirit, so she has the details on Sin City 2.  "He's done," King said. "He's like my brother, so I'm with him like every week, so he just told me a couple days ago that it was finished. He told me about it."  King, who played both Goldie and her twin sister, Wendy, in the Sin City segment "The Hard Goodbye," reprises both roles in the sequel. Since it is technically set before the first film's stories, she gets to play both sisters in a single scene.  "Both of my characters come back at the same time, so that's pretty cool."  Upon hearing that even Harvey Weinstein did not know Miller's status, King playfully gloated about her rank in the chain of command. She is essentially Miller's number two, learning details long before studio heads hear anything.  King will still have to wait for Weinstein to get the official green light. She does not have a start date for production. "I don't know, that's up to the studio."

12/5/08 - Sin City creator Frank Miller told IGN.co.uk that a sequel "is written. It's mainly a matter of working out the details of the production. I'm hoping to do it with Robert Rodriguez again in the same circumstances that we did the first one, and we could be shooting as soon as April."

12/31/06 - Based on Frank Miller's A Dame to Kill For, a second Sin City film will feature many of the characters from the first.  Angelina Jolie has been tagged to The Dame but nothing definitive yet.

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