From Page to Screen
See how a scene from Sin City got put together
(1) Lucille and Marv in Frank Miller’s art.
(2) A green-screen shot (played by Carla Gugino and Mickey
Rourke).
(3) The finished film, with background.
‘City’ Slicker
With revealing roles in three new movies, Jessica Alba is roping in
fans
By Tom Russo
Jessica Alba isn’t a bitch, but she played one on TV. As Max, the genetically
engineered babe-with-an-edge on the sci-fi series Dark Angel, she made her name
but risked typecasting because the character always seemed to have her claws
out. Now, two comic-book–to–film projects—Sin City, […]
The Man Who Shot Sin City
For years, one of the biggest gets in Hollywood was the movie rights to the
graphic novel series Sin City. Penned from 1991 to 2000 by Frank
Miller, whose The Dark Knight Returns resurrected the Batman franchise, Sin City
was emblematic of a new generation of comics that replaced the candy-colored
superhero with an angst-ridden antihero. Sin City’s hardnosed dialog,
cinematic compositions, and […]
PREMIERE.COM’S Sin City review
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Michael Clarke Duncan, Michael Madsen, Bruce Willis,
Clive Owen, Benicio Del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Jamie King, Josh
Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, Carla Gugino, Alexis Bledel, Jessica Alba,
Powers Boothe, Rutger Hauer Directed by: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Black and white and read all over, graphic novelist Frank
Miller’s prestigious and brutally […]