SIN CITY 2 shoots next year from an original Frank Miller script?

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have teased us with a Sin City 2 start date once every six months or so for the past four years, so forgive me for holding my breath at the latest scoop that claims a sequel to the black-and-white 2005 ensemble noir favourite is close to becoming a reality, because with this series it's kind of the case that i'll believe it when I see it. Mania spoke exclusively with producer Stephen L'Heureux of Solipsist Films who claims Sin City 2 will begin production in the latter half of 2010 and interestingly it will be based on an original screenplay written by Frank Miller and won't be adapted from the currently unfilmed Sin City graphic novels such as A Dame To Kill For, which was long spoken of as the plan. Not using A Dame To Kill For seems crazy. With Miller's wacko creative mindset right now, can he afford to chuck away such great material? After the disastrous Miller written and directed movie The Spirit last year, and to be brutally honest, his less than stellar creative output in the last ten years in all mediums, maybe we should be worried by Miller writing this. He seems to have gone even more nuts than usual lately and it would be a shame not to see his fantastic Sin City library completed on the big screen as the blending of his other great stories, in a Pulp Fiction kind of style, worked so well last time around. I just don't see why he has given himself this extra work? Rodriguez and Miller it seems will once again co-direct but as The Playlist point out, Rodriguez would appear to be a lock for Spy Kids 4 at Dimension next summer, so it could well be the case that it's 85% Miller directed, and 15% Rodriguez. Furthermore, the producer went on to claim the surprising news that Miller is hard at work penning an adaptation of Hard Boiled, the 1990 violent pulp Dark Horse 3 issue mini-series which could be made into a feature once Sin City 2 is done. Ok it's not that surprising as we have known that Miller has been planning this since 21.04.08 but with him writing a 300 sequel and a new Buck Rogers reboot... I thought he had chucked this one to the wayside.

The ultra-violent comic featured a troubled tax collector named Nixon who slowly begins to realize that his life is nothing like what it seems and he is some kind of robot doing the bidding of a shadowy organization. The book was printed in an oversize format to accommodate the intricately detailed artwork of co-creator Geoff Darrow.

Way back in 2001, Miller was in development with Warner Bros. to bring Hard Boiled to the big screen with Nicolas Cage starring and David Fincher directing. That of course never happened and WB put the project in turnaround which has since seen it be picked up by Solipsist Films. It's a tricky project as the graphic novel has so much detail to it and the futuristic world would be mega expensive to translate onto the big screen, and after The Spirit - I think studio's won't be very tempted in giving him big bucks ever again.