10 Movie Sequels That Took Way Too Long

9. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (9 Years, 5 Months)

The Pitch: Remember that Sin City sequel everyone wanted? Well, it's (sorta) finally happened, but given that Michael Clarke Duncan and Brittany Murphy are dead, they'll have to be recast (or in Murphy's case, elided entirely), while Clive Owen's Dwight and Devon Aoki's Miho have also been recast with Josh Brolin and Jamie Chung respectively. It also features two new stories written by Frank Miller specifically for the film. The Result: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For hit US cinemas this past weekend, and was a surprising box office bomb, making an embarrassing $6.5 million for the entire weekend on a $70 million budget (compared to the original movie's $29.1 million opening weekend). The reasons cited include a shoddy marketing campaign, the numerous re-castings (more casual viewers are likely to be confused by the Owen-Brolin switch), mixed reviews, the movie's style lacking the freshness of the previous film, and the fact that, yes, there was simply too much time between this and the original. Rodriguez shot himself in the foot by talking up Sin City 2 far too much over the years, with the script-writing process beginning in 2006, and the film suffering constant delays ever since, to the point that most people figured it would never see the light of day. People gave up on Sin City 2, and by the time trailers finally came out, they couldn't bring themselves to get excited and go out and see it.