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Jaime King Writing Graphic Novel

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  • March 19, 2008

After appearing in Sin City and bringing some glamour to the upcoming big-screen adaptation of The Spirit (as Lorelei Rox), actress Jaime King has a new and a bit unexpected collaboration upcoming with Frank Miller.

She recently served as cover girl for Maxim, and inside the issue she casually dropped the news that she’s writing a graphic novel, and Miller will be helping her through the process. That piece of info was gleaned in full by Star Pulse.

From the magazine:

"I’m actually writing a graphic novel that Frank Miller is helping me take to some big publishing companies. I love that medium."

Graphic novels, they’re so hot right now. Jokes aside, I think it’s great that more and more people are becoming interested in the medium and its potential to tell stories. Some just have the fortune of being beautiful, rich, famous and Frank Miller’s acquaintance.

‘Sin City’ Videogame on the Way

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  • March 6, 2008

Just the other day, ComicMix‘s Karl Cramer brought you the news that a Batman: The Dark Knight video game might be on the way. Now comes word that another comic/film property could be headed to consoles near you.

The Hollywood Reporter has an interesting story about the upcoming Sin City videogame. Sounds like a no-brainer, but the story has a couple of wrinkles. 

From the article:

But when the "Sin City" game hits store shelves around Christmas 2009, there will be no stars, no day-and-date marketing with the film’s sequel, "Sin City 2," and the publisher’s name on the box — Red Mile Entertainment — will be unknown to even the most hardcore gamers. Red Mile?


Indeed, the fledgling game maker has secured the rights not to either of the movies but to the seven graphic novels that comprised their source material, a strategy that even the company’s president and COO has a difficult time explaining.

Essentially, Red Mile decided it would be easier to develop the games from the comics, which have a lot more stories to choose from, giving the game creators more freedom, than to adapt something directly from the plot of the movie.

It’s probably a smart move, because the game can benefit from all the name recognition the movie earned without having to shell out for those specific rights. We’ll keep you posted.

Frank Miller’s Philip Marlowe

Frank Miller’s Philip Marlowe

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  • June 20, 2007

Frank Miller will be adapting the Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe in the film version of Trouble Is My Business, starring Sin City‘s own Clive Owen.

According to Variety, "Frank Miller knows more about noir than anyone I have ever met, and clearly the writing of Raymond Chandler has been an enormous influence on his life and his work," Owen said. "Miller adapting Chandler seemed like a perfect match." The hard-drinking private eye cracks cases, busts heads and romances femme fatales in 1940s Los Angeles.

Miller is hard at work adapting and directing Will Eisner’s The Spirit for Batfilm Productions and adapting his graphic novels Ronin and Sin City II to the expensive screen.

Owen joins actors such as Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Robert Montgomery, George Montgomery, James Garner, Elliot Gould, Dick Powell, Powers Boothe, Phil Carey, Van Heflin, Gerald Mohr, James Caan and Danny Glover in the role of Philip Marlowe. Good luck, Clive.

Thanks and a tip o’da hat to Richard Pachter.

Sin City video games

Sin City video games

Red Mile Entertainment has cut an exclusive worldwide licensing deal to develop and publish video games based on the Sin City graphic novels by Frank Miller. 

“Taking Sin City into the world of video games is very exciting – games offer a whole new way to bring audiences into Sin City,” said Frank Miller. “The Red Mile team has impressed me with its dedication to creating Sin City video games that will remain true to Sin City as I’ve always seen it.”

Red Mile is best known for their “Heroes of the Pacific” game, and are currently working on games based on MTV’s show Jackass. The financial terms of the deal were not announced.

Robert Rodriguez on Barbarella

Robert Rodriguez on Barbarella

Director Robert Rodriguez will be directing the remake of Barbarella.

The director of such hits as Sin City and From Dusk To Dawn, well-known for his low budget on-time green screen work, has put Babs on his schedule alongside The Jetsons (live action) and Sin City 2, which has been in pre-production for a while. Casino Royale writers Neal Pervis and Robert Wade will be scripting, and Dino De Laurentiis will be repeating his duties as producer. Production is scheduled to start next year. Jane Fonda is not expected to be cast as the lead once again, although a villain role has not been ruled out.

 

To tie into the movie, the original Barbarella comics stories by Jean Claude Forest will be re-released in two volumes; material that had never been published in English will be included.

 

Frank Miller’s Will Eisner’s The Spirit picked up

Frank Miller’s Will Eisner’s The Spirit picked up

Our good friends at Variety (the outfit that also brings us the New York Comic Con) tell us North American and British distribution rights Frank Miller’s film version of Will Eisner’s The Spirit, produced by Batfilm’s Michael Uslan, has been picked by Lionsgate, distributor of Marvel’s many D2DVD titles.

Frank has written the script and will be directing the movie as soon as he and Robert Rodriguez wrap up Sin City 2.

Wow. Sounds kinda incestuous, doesn’t it?

The producers are out in Cannes with Frank’s script selling international rights, even as you read these words.

Artwork for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund copyright Will Eisner. All Rights Reserved. Hat tip: Lisa Sullivan.

Pros name 50 most influential visual effects film

Pros name 50 most influential visual effects film

On Friday, the Visual Effects Society announced the results of a membership poll, naming the 50 most influential films of all time in terms of special effects.  According to VES Executive Director Eric Roth, hese films have had a significant, lasting impact on the practice and appreciation of visual effects as an integral, artistic element of cinematic expression and the storytelling process."

Comics fans will be arguing about the placement of Sin City (43) and Superman (44).  No other comic book-inspired films made the list.

The films will be the backdrop of the 2007 VES Festival of Visual Effects, which those of you in Los Angeles can enjoy at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills from June 7 through June 10.  There, a panel that includes Douglas Trumbull, Richard Edlund, Dennis Murren and maybe John Dykstra (he’s tentative as we write this) will discuss the list. 

After the jump, the whole list.

 

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At last: Frank Miller’s Ronin to big screen

At last: Frank Miller’s Ronin to big screen

I guess the first question is, what took them so long?

Frank Miller’s 1983 mini-series Ronin has been optioned by Warner Bros., no doubt noticing the success of Miller’s recent movies Sin City and 300. Whereas there are only reports of an option deal, Variety reports director Sylvain White is going to direct the live-action project.

It will come as no shock that Ronin will be shot in the blue/green screen method used for Sin City and 300.

No word on any guest-shot from Samurai Jack, who would fit in like a glove.

 

More retro films, sequels on the way

More retro films, sequels on the way

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  • April 13, 2007

Yeah okay, y’all are still talking about Barbarella, aren’t you?  Sorry, the original had some cute ideas but gah, was it sexist!  Talk to me when she’s properly dressed and Simon LeBon’s cast as Duran Duran.

Now here’s what I’m craving — a bit of the ol’ Get Smart.  USA today has a blurb about the in-production movie (set to open in late June) based on the old TV show created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry.  Andy Dick is nowhere in sight, thank goodness, but I love the casting they do mention — Steve Carell should make an ideal Maxwell Smart, Anne Hathaway has the potential to succeed Barbara Feldon as a smart and funny Agent 99, and Alan Arkin as The Chief is just too perfect.  Some of the other cast members sound like they’d fit right in as well.  I know I’m pretty psyched for Masi Oka’s big-screen debut!  (Did you know Steve Ditko drew Dell’s Get Smart comic book?)  Let’s hope the indicated trouble in paradise is just a rumor.

Meanwhile, all is not well with the casting of Mummy 3 — The Inevitable, as our esteemed Mike Gold refers to it.  Seems Brandon Fraser is in, but Rachel Weisz is out, leading to speculation that she’s definitely doing Sin City 2 — This Time It’s Even More Personal (my subtitle).  I haven’t seen the Mummy flicks in awhile, but how integral was Weisz’s character in them?  I seem to recall as she was pretty much "love interest/accessory" rather than, you know, an Agent 99 type.

And Harry Knowles is swearing up and down that Shia LeBeouf has been cast in the fourth Indiana Jones movie as Indy’s son, which only interests me insofar as he has one of the more fun names to say and type.  And elsewhere on Ain’t It Cool News, Quint reports that Christina Ricci has been cast as Trixie in the upcoming Speed Racer movie. With John Goodman and Susan Sarandon all set to play Speed’s parents, which amazingly means that Speed’s mom is bound to get actual screen time.

Grindhouse Gossip

Grindhouse Gossip

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  • April 7, 2007

In response to recent inquiries about the production of Grindhouse, a spokesperson for Troublemaker Studios, the production entity co-founded and co-run by Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan, released the following statement:

"Elizabeth Avellan and Robert Rodriguez were separated long before the Grindhouse production began. Their separation and subsequent divorce were very amicable and they opted to continue as planned, and to produce the film together — a decision they informed Bob and Harvey Weinstein [co-chairmen of The Weinstein Company, distributor of Grindhouse] about prior to the start of production. Robert and Elizabeth plan to produce Sin City 2 together — with Robert directing — for Dimension Films in the coming months. The hiatus during the production of Grindhouse had nothing to do with Robert’s personal life.

"On April 10th, 2006, after shooting for five weeks, Robert completed principal photography of the first phase of his segment of Grindhouse. He took a hiatus from shooting to assemble the footage he had already shot and determine his next steps in the production, which is the same successful approach he utilized with Sin City when he shot the film in two parts."

On a completely unrelated note, we saw Grindhouse yesterday and think the Tarantino part was awesome.

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