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It seems that Frank Miller is finally moving forward with a film sequel to Sin City. Anyone remember Sin City? Huge Frank Miller graphic novel -- reproduced nearly frame-by-frame by Robert Rodriguez -- Frodo as a spectacled cannibal serial killer -- Jessica Alba in the "cowgirl stripper" outfit that was everyone's desktop wallpaper. That was ages ago (2005!) and the rumors about a sequel were already churning even before the first one hit the theaters. In an interview with Mania, producer, Stephen L'Heureux of Solipsist Films revealed the news that those rumors will finally come to fruition when the project will begin to film sometime in the second half of 2010.

Miller was working on the screenplay for another of his graphic novel film adaptations, Hard Boiled. The future-set film was (and I suppose still is) rumored to star Nicolas Cage as a cyborg tax collector who, despite his homicidal tendencies, finds himself a hero who fights to preserve the robot race when he turns on the monolithic organization he once served. (Brazil meets Robocop?) However, to get things moving on Sin City 2, it looks like Hard Boiled will be put on the back-burner. (Take the pun if you wish.)

What will Sin City 2 portray? Ironically enough, while the original was the perfect companion piece to certain volumes of the Sin City graphic novels, don't look for the sequel to do the same. While Robert Rodriguez is expected to return to co-direct with Miller (as he did in the first film,) an original script by Miller will actually be the basis for this film. However, it's difficult to predict what that formula will produce. As anyone familiar with the Sin City graphic novels knows, the first film only covered a few of the story arcs from the Sin City mythos, leaving plenty of room for more chapters to be explored, each of which had ties and cameos to the ones that were depicted in the first film. With the vast majority of the cast quoted as being willing to return to the film, those cameos would be a definite possibility.

However, while a lot of fans would like to see Sin City volumes like A Dame To Kill For represented in the film, it is more likely that an option more suitable for casual movie-goers may be implemented. Perhaps, those viewers may be left befuddled by the concept of new characters and situations coming into focus, while characters believed to be dead are featured without explanation. Such an option will probably be more of a direct follow-up to the characters chronicled in the first film with Clive Owen's Dwight and his "hooker army" possibly taking center stage. (Pure speculation on my part.)

It is still to be determined as to when the film will actually hit theaters. According to L'Heureux:

"With 'Sin City' just on the horizon I don't think we'd be able to do it with Frank right away. As simple as 'Sin City' seems, it's a very complex scheduling with all these actors and it's a very demanding shoot to be on a sound stage all day long," L'Heureux told us. "We have to space it for Frank. There's also talk, of course, of 'Sin City 3'."

What do you think? Should the film(s) focus on an all-new story with the characters from the first film? OR would expanding on the other chapters of the graphic novels be the better move?

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