Rodriguez Directing Miller’s “Sin City”

Rodriguez Directing Sin City

Robert Rodriguez is already at work directing a big-screen version of Frank Miller’s black-and-white comic-book series Sin City, according to Variety. The trade paper reported that Josh Hartnett [The Faculty] and Marley Shelton [Valentine] are starring in the film and have shot the opening sequence in advance of a full shoot slated to begin in March, with Miller on board as co-director.

Sin City is a noir-ish crime saga about Marv, an ex-con out to avenge the death of Goldie, the beauty who was murdered following the couple’s one and only night together. Rodriguez, whose previous genre credits include From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty and the Spy Kids trilogy, told Variety that he’d been a fan of Sin City since the debut of the first graphic novel in 1991. “I always felt that when you walked into a comic-book store, it jumps off the shelf at you,” Rodriguez said. “After doing the Spy Kids movies I was looking to do something that would offer lighting and special effects challenges. I decided that I didn’t want to adapt Frank’s book, but rather translate it to the screen with the same visual flourishes that Frank used so well.”

Rodriguez will shoot Sin City in Austin, Texas, home to his production entity Troublemaker Studios, Variety added. Additional casting is underway and Dimension Films will release Sin City upon its completion.