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03-03-2004, 11:03 AM
ROBERT RODRIGUEZ TO ADAPT SIN CITY FOR FILM
It’s a match that genre movie and comic fans could only before now dream about: Robert Rodriguez adapting Frank Miller’s Sin City for Dimension Films. Ohhhh yeah.
According to Variety, Rodriguez has already filmed the opening to the movie with Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton. Rodriguez will cast the remaining roles and begin filming in earnest in March.
As fans of Rodriguez work know (thanks to the "10 Minute Film School" featurettes on the DVD versions of his films), the filmmaker is extremely quick in his production times, thanks in no small part to having a finger on virtually every aspect of filmmaking himself (he wrote, directed, shot, designed, edited, scored, and produced Once Upon a Time in Mexico). Additonally, according to the director, his Spy Kids 3 was shot went from being in front of cameras to being in front of audiences in roughly six months.
Dimension has not yet said when they expect to release Sin City, but, given the above, it could be as soon as this fall.
Rather than adapting one single storyline, the film will incorporate storylines from three of Frank Miller’s graphic novels including: Sin City, That Yellow Bastard and The Big Fat Kill.
“This is the first time a graphic novel will be treated with absolute respect in how it is brought to the life. My pitch to Frank was that I didn’t want to adapt Sin City, but rather translate it to the screen. I also wanted him involved in every aspect of the production, including sharing in the directing. If you look at his books, you see that in a way they are already the best written, shot, and directed ‘movies’ never seen in a theater,” said Robert Rodriguez in a release from Dimension.
“We are tremendously excited to have such a visionary filmmaker as Robert Rodriguez bring his unique perspective to Sin City, said Dimension Chairman Bob Weinstein.
According to teh studio, Miller said he welcomed the chance to be so closely involved with the director: "Robert came to me with a bold, coherent plan to bring my baby to the screen. This is gonna be a whole new kind of crime movie."
Rodriguez and producer Elizabeth Avellan will produce the project through their Troublemaker Studios label
some more info for the 2 or 3 people on here with good taste in comics oOo:
hartnett will play Dwight ED!...not Marv...phewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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