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Mickey Rourke Is Officially Back As Marv In “Sin City: A Dame To Kill For”

by Eric DiazAugust 6, 2012

Mickey Rourke is officially returning as fan favorite character Marv in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Although poor Marv died in the electric chair in the original Sin City, A Dame To Kill For takes place before those events. Also according to the same article at Deadline, Rourke is is in talks to join Gerard Butler in the Albert Hughes directed Motor City for Joel Silver’s Dark Castle. which centers on a man who is double crossed and seeks revenge on the guy who put him behind bars and took his woman. Motor City will be distributed by Warner Bros.

Sin City Sequel Gets Early Oct 2013 Release Date

by Molly MahanMay 17, 2012

Deadline reports that Dimension Films announced the release date for the long awaited (if not marginally forgotten) sequel to 2005’s Sin City today. Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is now slated for Oct. 4, 2013 release. Like the first film, it will again be directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, with William Monahan adding a hand to the script (which is also written by the pair).

Production is set to begin later this summer in Austin, Texas, at Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios. Sin City alum Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba, who played Marv and Nancy Callahan in the original, are slated to return. Nothing is official yet with regards to the other cast members, but so far they are expected to return. No word on who will replace the late Brittany Murphy as Shellie (if anyone).

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Officially Begins Rolling This Summer

by Eric DiazApril 12, 2012

After years of speculation, it is finally official: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For will go before the cameras this summer with a 2013 release date, with original co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller once again at the helm. Dimension Films, which released the first film, is set to release the second movie as well. One difference is that this time, scripting duties will be split between Frank Miller and The Departed’s Oscar winning screenwriter William Monahan.

Here are some excerpts from the official press release via Deadline.

“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 original comic series of A Dame To Kill For featured characters from the original Sin City like Marv and Dwight McCarthy. No mention was made in the press release whether Clive Owen and Mickey Rourke would return to their roles, but I’d say it’s a good bet they will.

Robert Rodriguez filming Sin City 2 and Machete Kills This Year

by Matt LandsmanMarch 15, 2012

After what feels like seven years of waiting…oh wait, it was actually seven years of waiting–Sin City 2 is finally headed into production. Robert Rodriguez announced at at the SXSW Interactive Festival that the much-anticipated sequel to his Frank Miller Noir adaptation will be “going into production” this summer. As exciting as this is, I’ll take it with a grain of salt until we see anything concrete, because it’s been “in production” for quite some time now. While it’s unknown who will return for the sequel, Rodriguez said the casting will be “of the same caliber and ecclecticism” as the first film’s. Years ago it was teased at that the popular graphic novel Hell and Back would be the centerpiece story of Sin City 2.

The sequel to the 2010 Grindhouse-spinoff Machete, aptly named Machete Kills will also start shooting in April. Danny Trejo will undoubtedly reprise his role as the titular character, though other casting details are unknown at this point. We can only hope Michelle Rodriguez signs on for the sequel.

For the full story, and developments on Rodriguez’s animation company, Quickdraw Animation which is working on two films currently, check out The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Business Blog.