It appears that last week’s rumors that film rights to Sin City were up for grabs is true, as The Hollywood Report quotes several producers who have said that they have been shopped the rights by reps for Miller’s estate who are seeking a new place to set up the sequel.
Rodriguez’s involvement in the sequel is unclear at the moment. The Weinstein Company is still denying the news, noting that rights remain where they have been all this time.
The original Sin City
film grossed $159 million worldwide.
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You might be amazed to know–I certainly was–that Newgrounds actually has a noir section. For those of you not familiar with the term “noir”, it’s actually French for “black” and refers to a genre of film that’s a bit darker and grittier than the ordinary, and is often shot in black and white. Sin City, for example, is a good example of noir, as is much of Humphrey Bogart’s career.
So I decided to take a look on Noir’s front page to discover Casino Night, a little movie about a night on the town, and how fast fortunes can be won and lost.
Okay, this probably doesn’t REALLY qualify as noir so much as it does almost a noir parody. It’s definitely done in the noir style, but the storyline is anything but. When you watch it, you’ll likely be reminded of the Brendon Small Adult Swim show Home Movies. The art style is definitely similar, and this is the exact kind of movie the kids might well shoot.
But one thing’s clear enough–it’s as fun as it is fast to watch. It’ll keep your attention, and in this era of supersaturation of online film, that can never be a bad thing.
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Remember the big, ugly brute that could bust doors, smash policemen and have sex with an insanely hot girl – all at the same time, mind you – from Sin City? Ya, that was Mickey Rourke, who may be about to get his career resuscitated courtesy of The Wrestler, who talked about his role as Marv in the upcoming Sin City sequel.
Speaking to MTV News, Rourke insinuates that his time was wasted with the role of Marv in the original, but that re-teaming with Robert Rodriguez is enough of a motivating factor to get back into the film’s gritty world.
“I have a lot of respect for Robert Rodriguez,” he said. “It scares the piss out of me to sit in make-up for three hours [but] if the role is written the right way, I would do it because it was a good experience.”
As for wasting his time, Rourke simply states that he wants to “work with interesting directors” and that he is going to “do a lot of work because of the time [he] wasted.”
What do you guys think? Did Rourke really waste his time as Marv? Personally, I don’t think anyone else could don the role as well as he did.
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Anyone who’s into their comic books will be pretty excited about this trailer. Next to Watchmen, The Spirit is the most anticipated comic-book adaptation. Which isn’t surprising considering it’s being written and directed by Frank Miller, a famed comic-book writer, and creator and co-director of Sin City, a film which argubly revolutionised comic-book adaptations.
The trailer was premiered at the New York Comic Con, and uploaded by MTV (who didn’t grant access to international users), and fortunately been placed on Youtube (for the time being). So how does it look? Well, it does look impressive, with it’s black-white-red colour scheme, and moody monologue. The music is an interesting mix of 40’s crime caper and Morricone Western. Yet, it’s also painfully obvious that it owes a lot to Sin City’s visual techniques, as if Miller like Robert Rodriguez’s idea and decided to copy it for his own idea. Yet, the movement feels a little off, especially when The Spirit slides off a roof. It has a video-game feel to it.
Nevertheless, The Spirit still looks tantalising. While the relatively unknown Gabriel Macht plays the eponymous hero, who after a near-death experience decided to stop being a cop and start being a vigilante crime-fighter, the support consists of Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, and Eva Mendes. The only real down-side is that The Spirit won’t be out until next January.
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