Frank Miller Updates: 'Sin City 2' Status, New 'Spirit' Posters

While promoting The Spirit in Rome this week, director Frank Miller addressed the big question mark of Sin City 2. For all practical purposes, that movie should've been in theaters this year - or at the latest, next spring - but the script never came together the right way at first, Miller moved on to The Spirit and Robert Rodriguez focused on Grindhouse and producing. But it sounds like some wind may be back in the sails for the sequel. "I can't talk about my projects,  because I don't believe a movie is real until I see the title on the screen. There are many things that can go wrong," Miller told the Italian site Bad Taste, as translated by Worst Previews. "But I can tell you that I'm very close to beginning Sin City 2 with Robert Rodriguez. We have to arrange a few things and we'll be back in action." From the tone of that statement, it sounds as if Miller and Rodriguez would collaborate very closely again; Sin City, a co-directorial effort, was Miller's first feature film. There are plenty of doubters on the subject of whether or not the sequel will happen. Mickey Rourke, brilliant as Marv in the first film, said he doesn't think about coming back, but leaves the door open if the script is great. Casting rumors have most of the principals from the first one back, which is interesting considering what's in the script isn't common knowledge, but that's the way rumors work. Speculation also centers on Rose McGowan and Antonio Banderas coming aboard. Curiously, Rodriguez has in the past discussed a third Sin City film, which is seen as a likely eventuality if the second one ever happens. That film would focus on Miller's Hell and Back, with Johnny Depp firmly on the radar for the role of a hallucinating artist named Wallace. I would suspect we'll hear something more this December, when The Spirit rolls into theaters and Miller has more microphones in front of him. On the subject of The Spirit, yesterday we showed you a handful of very cool shots from the film, and today, UGO has two new posters featuring Gabriel Macht and Sam Jackson. I love the pictures from yesterday; I hate these posters. Gone are the shadows that have typified every single thing we've seen from The Spirit so far, and in their place, apparently, is a nuclear holocaust. I vote nay.