Update: Frank Miller says Sin City 2 DELAYED, but Not DEAD
Michael Madsen has never been one to keep quiet. I’m pretty sure the actor is the one who is single handily responsible for most of the Inglorious Bastards over the past few years. Well now Madsen has told Premiere that he Sin City 2 might have been canned due to Grindhouse’s poor box office performance.
“They haven’t shot it [Sin City 2] yet. I don’t know if they ever will. I am not sure [about] the franchise. I think the Grindhouse thing didn’t kind of work out as well as they had hoped. Certainly not in the States,” said Madsen. “I don’t know what effect that is going to have on making Sin City 2. Sin City was Mickey [Rourke]’s film. Mickey is f**king incredible in that f**king movie. He is the movie. And I am happy for Mickey. Mickey is the real deal. Mickey is Mickey. And you can’t f**k with that. And he did a tremendous job in that thing. The only reason I did it was because Robert Rodriguez said that if I took that little part I would get a bigger role in the sequel, that Bob would have more to do in the sequel. So I said: “Okay, fine.” I am sitting on an apple box [in front of a green screen] and then when you see the movie, you’re in a car. I don’t understand it. I don’t know how to do that. I don’t get it.”
Usually I would blow off Madsen’s comments as nothing more than misplaced speculation but last we heard, Sin City 2 was scheduled to start shooting next month (June). Could it be possible that one of the film’s main actors hasn’t been told about a shoot less than a month before cameras roll? Sounds a little fishy. Also, it would be ridiculous to cancel Sin City 2 because of Grindhouse’s failure. Grindhouse failed due to bad marketing and a horrible release date. Sin City made some money and then some, so it would be stupid to think that a sequel would also not do well. Plus, a few months back wasn’t Frank Miller’s 300 the biggest thing in Hollywood? Short attention spans…
May 29th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Madsen needs to use a little more of his brain next time. Sounds loony.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
nah, this guy doesn’t know what he is talking about. Grindhouse was a Tarrentino-driven vehicle despite Rodriguez’s involvement. And Frank Miller’s Sin City and 300 were both very successful.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Good riddance. That movie was no good.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
i liked him when he played for the lakers.
May 30th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
How can there be a Sin City 2… there’s no more Frank Miller content to film. Sin City was genius, it was verbatim, the content of the comics. I’m just glad to hear Madsen was smart enough to know that without Marv there is no show.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:00 am
To my knowledge there is a lot of “Sin City” material to draw from. Apparently, the first film dealt mainly with the “ending” of the stories, while I’ve heard the sequel will actually be more of a prequel.
June 1st, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Ummm, if any of you had bothered to read the stories before you vegged out on the admittedly brilliant movie adaptation, you’d know there are quite a few more stories, not prequels per se, though some of the stories are related. Some are not. Do not just make shit up and assume you’re not an idiot. You are, trust me.