Frank Miller's "Sin City" -- Film Noir 2005

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Looks like the flick will be out soon, with Robert Rodriguez directing(with help from Frank Miller). Apparently Rodriguez gave up doing the "John Carter of Mars" flick to do this, since he resigned from the Directors Guild in order that Miller get co-director credit.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/

Clive Owen, Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Brittany Murphy, Benicio Del Toro, and lotsa more.

Click here to see some footage/comic con preview. slightly NSFW for the brief titteh shot. Looks cool. Acting a bit bleah, but if they really are going for the entire film noir feel, it's pretty spot on.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:37 (twenty years ago)

according to imdb:

...Robert Rodriguez, a longtime fan of the comic, filmed his own "audition" for the director's spot in secret. The footage, shot in early 2004, featured Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton acting out the "Sin City" short-story "The Customer is Always Right". He presented the finished footage to Miller with the proclamation: "If you like this, this will be the opening to the movie. If not, you'll have your own short film to show your friends." Miller approved of the footage and the film was underway. Rodriguez also screened the footage for each of the actors he wanted to cast in the film - all of whom are reported to have been instantly amazed.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:38 (twenty years ago)

Josh Hartnett? ??!??

― big chaki (chaki), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:17 (twenty years ago)

yup. check the footage.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:20 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, PLEASE let this be good.
I have such high expectations.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:23 (twenty years ago)

Rodriguez is very very good. We'll see.

― (Jon L), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Fuck it. Fuck you all. This is, hands down and no question, the best movie trailer I've ever seen in my short sad life. It's so perfect. Robert Rodriguez, who specializes in spoofing himself and everyone else, in that order, and Frank Miller, whose Sin City series was self-parody from beginning to end, even though not everyone realized it at the time. My friend would say, "I dunno. Miller's good, but it seems like 'Sin City' is slipping into self-parody." Slipping? It's diving head first. Do you not understand how smart it is about what it's doing?

And Rodriguez has the same problem, and the same arguments against him ("Are you a Mexi-CAN, or a Mexi-CAN'T?), and Jesus this is perfect. TOGETHER?! Jesus, how perfect. I couldn't possibly be more excited about this.

― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 21 November 2004 07:08 (twenty years ago)

Whoah fuck I'm with Kenan, this looks great!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 21 November 2004 07:28 (twenty years ago)

That doesn't look very good at all. A noir Sky Captain (in style) with maybe better acting and a real plot.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 21 November 2004 09:22 (twenty years ago)

There will possibly be a game of this too. I can't say anymore.

― thisisnotTrayce (trayce), Sunday, 21 November 2004 09:36 (twenty years ago)

A noir Sky Captain (in style) with maybe better acting and a real plot.

No, Sky Captain was stilted, witless, and dead. This looks fluid, happily ironic, and very much alive.

― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 21 November 2004 10:06 (twenty years ago)

eljiah wood as kevin the cannibal?!?! :O

― :| (....), Sunday, 21 November 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago)

i mean, :D

theres somethign about del toros and rourkes performances in that trailer that maeks me think of dick tracy. also i dont like eisode films and i guess this is one. otherwies it looks fine. very, very fine. great, even.

― :| (....), Sunday, 21 November 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago)

theres somethign about del toros and rourkes performances in that trailer that maeks me think of dick tracy

indeed, which is a great movie! Except this one will be really violent and full of sex!

― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 21 November 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago)

[quote]No, Sky Captain was stilted, witless, and dead. This looks fluid, happily ironic, and very much alive.[/quote]
That seems like a rosy view of what I said - better acting and a real plot. Still doesn't look very good, though.

I can't get excited over two or three actors in front of a blue-screen doing their best Looney Tunes-gangster acting with gimmicky CGI behind them. I've already played the Max Payne games.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago)

A quick RFI: will this be the first Frank Miller project as such that actually got filmed? (I do not know if he actually created Daredevil, see.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Yes and no, actually....

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago)

He didn't create DD, but after the movie gets the origin out of the way, the Elektra part of plot is based on the stuff he wrote (uh, early 80s?).

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I can't get excited over two or three actors in front of a blue-screen doing their best Looney Tunes-gangster acting

I can. Call me an optimist. But then again, I love both Sin City and Rodriguez movies. Deliciously bad! What's not to love?!

― Kenan (kenan), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

That looked awful! campy hard-boiled detective pastiche does not equal film noir.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 21 November 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago)

I like Rodriguez movies (the ones I've seen, all except for Spy Kids I think), just not this one. I think maybe he's edging into indie-Bruckheimer territory, letting CGI and other special effects do the job of inventiveness and story as in his earlier movies.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago)

I don't see as much camp in it as everyone else... am I being retarded? I'm not familiar with the graphic novels, and I don't care much for Rodriguez's recent output outside of the Spy Kids flicks (which were great!), but I think that the hyperstylization, era-germane performances, and still inserts convey a real sense of aura. Certainly the episodic nature of the project necessitates a certain detachment, but I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing ...?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Blade Trinity is out soon!!!!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I will see it drunk in the theater like the other two Blade movies.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago)

The still inserts were the best thing about the teaser, but they just reminded me of the Maxx cartoons and Max Payne.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago)

neither of which I've seen.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago)

(that wasn't meant to sound confrontational. sorry, milo)

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)

i think this looks like fun! who cares if it's rockist film noir enough?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

seems like if anything people are concerned it might be too genuine!

knowing absolutely nothing of the context, these assertions of self-parody (and on the other side of the same coin, pretensions to classic noir (because that can't (or won't) be done w/out heavy layers of irony, which inevitably end up being more insulting than amusing, unless you're a fucker)) rankle. i mean who has time for that shit? (believe it or not, i don't actually mean to sound confrontational either, but this is something i've never really understood.)

where is this film noir angle coming from anyway? -influenced, i can see; i hardly think it's trying to BE it.

― John (jdahlem), Sunday, 21 November 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Because the comics are really noir? Theyre all very heavily inked.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 21 November 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago)

A quick RFI: will this be the first Frank Miller project as such that actually got filmed?

Nope!

And on the self-parody tip -- I wouldn't go so far as to say it's pure, ironized pastiche, at least, not the good volumes of Sin City. Rather, the good stories are blessedly over-the-top, hypertrophically muscled like they're on ~~steroids~~ ~~HGH~~ an ultra-intense work-out program the likes of which Gary Sheffield has never seen before.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 21 November 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Miller HATED the work on the robocop script by EVERY account; enough so that he vowed not to do movies again.
Ditko and Lee created Daredevil, I believe. Miller's responsible for Elektra.
Anybody know who created Bullseye?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:01 (twenty years ago)

http://imdb.com/name/nm0588340/

says that there was also a 'Rusty the Boy Robot' tv series and that '300' has been 'announced'.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:38 (twenty years ago)

haha this looks like total ass.

― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Monday, 22 November 2004 11:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm w/Kenan and Alex. this looks like a LOT of fun.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 22 November 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

http://progressive.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/movies/2005/sincity_019736/sincity_trlr_02_dl.mov

Full length preview! Apparently getting release on ze FIRST of April!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

what is this "special guest director" Tarantino business?

― Darius Rucker Lookalike (deangulberry), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

the year of the half-animated nerd hot debate points begins...

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget the probably non-animated Batman Year One!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I thought Sin City was crap except for the highly stylized art. The movie will remove that for me, and give me Bruce Fucking Willis in return? I expect it will take a team of draft horses to drag me to this steaming pile.

― Austin (Austin), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Please god, no more comic book movies.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Maybe they'll make a Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman movie by mistake.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I wish they'd make Barney Miller's Sin City.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

With Battle Action Fish?
I'm still hopeful. It looks good to me.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

funny all those actors listed as the cast of Sin City all have that Frank Miller "look" to them. Big lips & square jaws. ethnic tinge to almost everyone.
They shoudla got Jessica Alba to be Elektra.
Garner's too much of a wasp.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

They should make Sim City, next.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

it could also be an adaptation of robert caro's "the power broker." so you get the multiplex crowd, and the arthouse crowd.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

Dazzler is crying to be made into a movie!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/large/22543697648.1.3RD.PRINT.gif

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Please god, no more literary adaptation movies.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Why does everyone have Irish surnames in this film? Not to mention the ridiculous Oirish contract killers/mercenaries. Is this some stupid Irish American thing?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 11:23 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

http://www.notafishinglure.com/resources/ArielIsNancy.jpg

― Thomas, Friday, 29 August 2008 21:10 (seventeen years ago)

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