Miller Says 'Sin City 2' Ready to Go

Hoping for a late spring shoot

By: Brad Brevet
Published: Saturday, February 24th 2007 at 4:19 AM

SCI FI Wire had a chance to speak with Frank Miller and it looks like the highly anticipated Sin City 2 will indeed be filmed this year. Miller told the site "he hopes to be in Texas to shoot the film by late spring. Miller and Robert Rodriguez will again share directing duties on the sequel."

"The script is largely done, and now we're in that limbo zone where we're casting and making script adjustments as we go," Miller said. He continued saying that the second film will be based on the second "Sin City" tale and a prequel to "The Hard Goodbye," which was the basis of one of the first film's storylines along with "That Yellow Bastard" and "The Big Fat Kill."

The sequel will also deal with "a couple of old stories and one brand-new one," Miller said. "The old ones are a couple of 'Blue Eyes' stories, and there's an 'Old Town Girls' story, and the new one features Nancy Callahan [played by Jessica Alba] in a very different, very scary role. I'm hoping we'll start in late spring. It gets pretty hot in Austin, so there might be a summer's interruption there, but both Robert and I really want to be shooting this thing as soon as possible."

Several names have been rumored to be attached including Angelina Jolie, so much so that it has been speculated that filming was delayed due to Jolie's pregnancy.

As for Miller, you will be able to check out the latest adaptation of one of his works on March 9 in 300, a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army.