Before and After: updates and previews

      There are rumors that Johnny Depp, Antonio Banderas and Rachel Weisz  will join the cast of Sin City 2.

     We have our ear to the road, but there is no solid news to report. 

     Angelina Jolie signs on to Sin City 2.
 

     Our man in the field, Jorge Solis just wrote in with some Sin City news straight from the horse's mouth.  Jorge had the opportunity to sit in on a conversation with the one and only Frank Miller at last weekend's huge, three-day Comicon in Manhattan.

      Here's what he found out about Sin City 2.  The story will based around the Miller book A Dame to Kill For and several of his short stories from Miller's collection Booze, Broads and Bullets.  Even more exciting than that, another story line will be one none of us have ever seen before, a story created specifically for the movie.

     The story exclusive to the film series will be about Nancy Callahan dealing with the suicide of John Hartigan.  This should have some heart-tugging and gut-ripping moments, I'm sure.

      Thanks for the head's up Jorge.  So long as the film prominently features tools from someone's garden shed and gratuitous noir clichés made wonderful and viscerally new, I'm in.

     Robert Rodriguez is now billed in the following categories of film-maker: Cinematographers, Editor, Original Music, and Producer. 

     It is said that RR has revealed that Sin City 2 would be based on Miller's story A Dame to Kill For
 

     At this date production of Sin City 2 and 3, as they are being referred to at this time, will start in February 2006.  With the release of SC2 in 2006 and SC3 in 2008.  The official directing credit goes to Frank Miller, but I believe Robert Rodriguez, the genius behind Sin City the film, will do some directing as well, as he did in Sin City.  You will remember that Quentin Tarantino also had directing credits for Sin City.  Furthermore, I'm personally glad to see that the sequel will be worked on while the first film is still fresh meat. 

     This is a highly anticipated film, and those of us who were blown away by the first film, have high, very high expectations for the second and the third films.  That is why I am not concerned with Robert Rodriquez stepping back from directing the sequels - this may actually be a good decision, should it be true.  My confidence is in Mr. Rodriguez, I believe that no one else could have made the Sin City movie that we saw but Robert Rodriguez (read my review of Sin City for explanation).  He may actually have made the same decision that George Lucas made after the success of Star Wars, when he, Lucas, found himself overwhelmed by the many facets of his breakthrough film, which invented new technologies in order to show his dream on the big screen.  By choosing a director he had faith in, Lucas was able to keep control over all of the new demands the second film made.  (The biggest of which would have been making it much better than the first film.)  And make no mistake about it, Robert Rodriguez is no less of an envelop pusher than Lucas was, and he may be more of a perfectionist. 

     Robert Rodriguez is a man with a vision and the ability to make it happen.  And like the Empire Strikes Back, Sin City 2 will have to be deeper, wider, taller and more Sin City than Sin City was. 

     There isn't much we need to know about the sequels other than in which order the graphic novel's stories will be told.  Here is something we do have: It's one of those hot nights, dry and windless. The kind that makes people do sweaty, secret things. Dwight's thinking of all the ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is his life. And he'd give anything. Just to cut loose. Just to feel the fire. One more time.

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