Gerard Butler and Frank Miller Have Talked 'Sin City'

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Gerard Butler and Frank Miller Have Talked 'Sin City'

Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 9:23AM

Gerard Butler hasn't completely closed the door on another 300 movie - although he says he's not sure it would ever happen - but he and Frank Miller might be reconnecting on something else in the future. Butler told MTV's Splashpage that he and the 300 and Sin City author have discussed another possible sequel.

"At one point, he talked to me about one of the Sin City [movies]," Butler confirmed. "There's a kind of cool character I think in the third one. But it was all very kind of soft talk."

Of course, if it will take the second movie in the series over six year to follow up the original, that puts Sin City 3 on a collision course with 2017. Actually, though I haven't heard anything about this, I would presume the two sequels would likely be shot back-to-back, if they happen at all. Seems like the easiest way to go about it rather than trying to get all the pieces back in place again down the road.

MTV says the sequel, rumored to be headed into production next year (but don't hold your breath), will feature original cast members Rosario Dawson, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, Brittany Murphy, Mickey Rourke and Michael Clarke Duncan, but that's not even close to confirmed. Owen and Dawson are the only actors I've heard even discuss the possibility.

Last year, Rourke said he wasn't doing a sequel, and I got the vibe from his comments that he didn't really enjoy working on the first picture all that much. I'm sure it wouldn't be any trouble getting commitments from Duncan and Murphy, but some of those other names probably need to be double checked.

Besides, in January, Harvey Weinstein called this movie a "top priority" and now it's hard to say that company's only priority is anything other than staying afloat. Bad couple of years at TWC, minus the success of Inglourious Basterds and The Reader, the latter coming with a heftier price tag than you might think.

So just because people want to make these sequels doesn't mean it's going to be automatic. Otherwise, wouldn't we already have them?

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