The much-anticipated Sin City: A Dame to Kill For has been long in development and is now a few months into shooting.  Yet still director Robert Rodriguez hasn’t finished up his casting?  Apparently not, because we here at the big and beautiful NB just got word that two new faces are being added to the movie’s line-up.  Expect to see the delicious and talented Eva Green and Julia Garner strutting their stuff for Frank Miller’s next great production.

Green will be taking on the role of Ava Lord, AKA the titular “Dame” that people seem to want to kill for.  She’ll be appearing alongside Josh Brolin in one of the story arcs, one that revisits Dwight McCarthy pre-Sin City the first.  Green’s getting the thumbs-up of approval from both Rodriguez and Miller, who have been quoted as saying:

Ava Lord is one of the most deadly and fascinating residents of Sin City.  From the start, we knew that the actor would need to be able to embody the multifaceted characteristics of this femme fatale and we found that in Eva Green.  We are ecstatic that Eva is joining us.

Garner will be taking on a more… physically interesting role as one of the city’s seemingly endless supply of strippers.  She’ll be joining up with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a different story arc, “The Long Bad Night.”

The two actresses will be working alongside some of the Sin City alumni, including Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Jamie King, Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis, as well as more than a few fresh faces.

Check it out when Sin City: A Dame to Kill For hits the screens on October 4^th of this year.

Thanks to /film for the heads-up.

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Word is that Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller‘s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For has added Ray Liotta (Goodfellas), Juno Temple (The Dark Knight Rises), and Jeremy Piven (Entourage). What characters the three will play is anyone’s guess at the moment.

The movie will follow the original movie and comics form of multiple short stories set in the same world. The stories and a short idea of each plot:

A Dame to Kill For:

Dwight McCarthy is called by his former lover, Ava Lord, who wants his help to escape her abusive husband, billionaire Damien Lord. However, Dwight soon learns that Ava’s true intentions are much sinister than they appear.

Just Another Saturday Night:

On the night John Hartigan met back up with Nancy in That Yellow Bastard, Marv regains consciousness on a highway overlooking the Projects, surrounded by dead young guys, unable to remember how he got there.

The Long Bad Night (Original Story):

Set after Hartigan’s suicide at the end of That Yellow Bastard, Nancy tries to survive the remainder of the night with Roark Junior/Yellow Bastard’s men on her trail.^[5]

Untitled Original Story:

Johnny, a cocky gambler, disguises a darker mission to destroy his most foul enemy at his best game.

The movie is set to hit theater screens on October 4th.

Via: Comingsoon

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It’s a new year, and along with the resolutions you’ve probably already broken, there’s a fresh slate of films to look forward to, and Nerd Bastards has chosen 25 to keep your eye on. Some titles you’ll know, others you might not, but one thing’s for sure, by the end of the year you’ll think some of them rocked and the rest of them sucked. As to which films will go which way, I’ll let that be a pleasant surprise.

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The sad passing of Michael Clarke Duncan in September left a sizable whole in Hollywood, and an equally sizable hole in the cast of the upcoming sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Duncan was scheduled to return to the role of mob enforcer Manute in the Robert Rodriguez-directed sequel, but with his untimely death someone was going to have to step into the part, and the filmmakers seemed to have found their someone.

The someone in question is Dennis Haysbert, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Haysbert is famous for his TV roles as 24‘s President Palmer,The Unit’sSgt. Maj. Blane and All State Insurance’s spokesperson. As you may or may not know, with his a deep, gravely voice and standing at an imposing height of six-feet, four inches, Haysbert makes for a sadly ideal Ducan substitute for the film and the part.

Duncan died in September from complications after suffering a heart attack this summer. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, the sequel to the 2005 hit Sin City, is currently in production for an October 2013 release.

Source: Screen Rant

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Because you demanded it (probably not), 20th Century Fox is moving up the release of the 3-D version of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith by a week. The re-release will now hit your 3-D enhanced screens on October 4, 2013, just two weeks after the release of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. This, of course, follows on the successful 3-D release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace this past February 10, which made $102.7 million at the worldwide box office.

What does the competition look like now for the films? AOTC will open against Ron Howard’s latest film Rush starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl, and Disney’s 3-D re-release of The Little Mermaid. ROTS, meanwhile, will face heavy competition against the Vince Vaughn comedy The Delivery Man, the thriller Paranoia, and the comic book sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.

It will be interesting to see who will win the battle for nerd money between Sin City and Sith, and it will be interesting to see who gets more 3-D screens, Clones or Mermaid, but clearly Fox is trying to get the contentious prequels out of the way so that they can get to the undoubtedly more profitable 3-D re-release of the original trilogy.

Source: Coming Soon

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Progress is being made on the development of the Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For, and key to that is getting Mickey Rourke back on board as Sin City bruiser and ex-con Marv. Deadline is reporting that Marv’s portrayer Rourke is now officially in negotiations to be a part of the film, which is supposedly going to begin shooting sometime later this summer. By now you’re saying, “Wait. Didn’t Marve die in the first Sin City? Sure, if you’re judging things chronologically, but A Dame to Kill For takes place before The Hard Goodbye, the story Marv’s segment in the first Sin City movie was based on.

In other Sinful news, another key cast member from A Dame to Kill For says he hasn’t heard anything about his services being needed in the new film. Michael Madsen, who plays corrupt police detective Bob, former partner of Detective John Hartigan (Bruce Willis), is kind of scratching his head wondering where his invitation to play is.

“Well that’s kind of a mystery because there’s a whole bunch of stuff all over the internet that I’m doing a sequel and I certainly didn’t put that stuff on there, so I don’t know who did,” says Madsen who adds in a MTV News interview that he’s yet to get a straight answer from director Robert Rodriguez. “But, wherever that came from, whoever generated that information, must be thinking that I’m doing that — but I can’t seem to get an answer out of anybody.”

Still, Madsen says he’s up for the movie if and when he’s asked, even though it kind of sounds like he hasn’t done the reading. “Well, sure. I thought the first one was pretty good,” he says. “I mean, I kind of got in that first one by default. And Bob survives, so you’d figure that he’s gonna make it, right? You’d figure that I’d show up in part two. So if you could get an answer for me, I’d really appreciate it, cause I can’t find out. Of course, I’d like to be a part of it.”

De-Fault. The two sweetest words in the English language. Hope it works for Madsen this time.

More news as it develops.

Source: Comic Book Movie

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In a recent interview with Empire Magazine, Director Robert Rodriguez discussed his two creative masterpieces, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For and Machete Kills, which starts production this summer. Robert Rodriguez’s discusses the direction he plans to take the Sin City sequel by stylizing it to match the comic book.

“I really held back the first time, because I didn’t know whether audiences would go for it. So it ended up looking like a real movie, but in black and white, with a few flourishes. This one is going to push way further towards the books. It’s going to shock and surprise people.”

Rodriguez also reveals that some “seriously big names” are set to come on board for the film, but nothing is set in stone. Clive Owen is rumored to reprise his role, and while Angelina Jolie is also a rumored prospect for the role of Ava Lord, but Rodriguez did not confirm or deny whether she is a candidate for the role. Instead he told Empire that Ava Lord’s:

” a great part for any actress. She’s completely diabolical with no mercy. She’s as evil as evil gets.”

Of course when the interview moved on to Machete Kills, Rodriguez wanted to clear up the synopsis revealed by him and the production team behind the film.

“That synopsis we put out is misdirection — it’s all fake. Machete is recruited by the President, that’s true, but there’s no cartel leader and the weapon in space is just one of our early story ideas. That said, there is still a space element, for sure. We’ve given the character a much bigger playground. It’s going to be like a James Bond movie, with a Bond-style villain.“

He also lets Empire know that Mel Gibson’s role will be crazy, and his villainous character that will have people talking.

“Mel’s just a badass. We have the same attorney and we’ve talked over the years about stuff we’re making. This won’t just be him grinning, doing bad-guy stuff. He’s going to do something with it that’ll really get people talking.”

Robert Rodriguez is really clearing up a lot of rumors about both of his films, and giving his fans a lot to look forward to. What do you think about the sequels to Sin City and Machete, will it live up to the hype?

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Let’s take a moment to reflect on the career of Robert Rodriguez and how he has impacted male culture.  This ostentatious director has delivered a copious amount of truly manly films. Think about that for a second. Think what kind of knuckle dragging, chest pounding, brass ballin’, mans-man would you be without films like Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, Grindhouse (Planet Terror), Sin City and Machete? Point is, let us never take this alpha filmmaker for granted. Oh, and for you female fans out there: I think we should be friends. It’s so cool that you can appreciate films with bloody violence and and balls to the walls action. Anyhow…

I for one, can’t get enough of Robert Rodriguez. So thank god he’s a director that always has a few projects on his plate.   Speaking of which, Mr. Rodriguez has quite a lot planned for 2012. He will shoot Machete Kills, then Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and then if things go smoothly he’ll move right into a new version of the film Fire and Ice.  Lets pause for a moment and tell you about Fire and Ice. It’s one of those cult 80′s animated films that everyone seems to forget about. The story directed by Ralph Bakshi and designed by Frank Frazetta, was about an evil Ice Lord, a fire princess, and a muscular hero out to save the day. It’s a pretty rad film.  Especially the rotoscoping (where animated characters are drawn based on live-action footage) and the clothing (or lack thereof). Here watch films original trailer and you’ll see my point:

Sick, huh?

THR spoke to the Rodriguez, who said:

That’s in the works to go right into after Sin City, Frank Frazetta’s Fire and Ice. We’re almost done with the script, we’ve got it pretty much 70 percent there – I’m really excited about that one.

I’m excited too. So much so, that I kind of wish he’d skip the Machete and Sin City sequels. I know it’s nerd heracy to say that, but I’m a swords and sandals kind of guy. I want me some Fire and Ice and I don’t want to be dead by the time he gets around to it.

Source: THR

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