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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Is Already Done With 'Sin City'

Posted 2/25/13 12:30 pm EST by in Dark Horse, interviews

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's part in "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" has already wrapped, and if he's to be believed, it's going to be awesome. MTV News caught up with the actor on the Oscars red carpet, and he explained what made that set different from any other he's been on.

"Yeah, we shot it already. It went so great," he explained. "Robert Rodriguez is just a delightful human being. He's got so much creativity pouring out of him. He's got a painting studio set up next to where we shoot so that when there's downtime he encourages people to just go paint. How cool is that? So cool."

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Shane Acker Adopts The 'Beasts Of Burden' Adaptation

Posted 2/20/13 2:31 pm EST by in Dark Horse, News

Beasts of Burden

Shane Acker is returning to the realm of animated film. The "9" director will next tackle the CG animated feature "Beasts of Burden," based on the Dark Horse Comics series of the same name.

Reel FX announced the partnership, and says that "Turbo" scribe Darren Lemke is writing the script for the movie. Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson wrote the comic books, which tell the story of a group of animals that look into various paranormal events that happen in their Burden Hill neighborhood. Sounds like a story that's right up Acker's alley.

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Josh Brolin Revealed In First 'Sin City' Photos

Posted 2/19/13 11:53 am EST by in Dark Horse, News, Photos

The Dwight McCarthy mystery is officially over. Though the renegade photographer was played by Clive Owen in the first "Sin City," the upcoming sequel features the character with a new likeness, thanks to Josh Brolin. If you weren't convinced that Brolin was the right choice to take over the Dwight role, look no further than two photos Robert Rodriguez posted on his Twitter account over the weekend; it should be all the convincing you need.

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Here's Rodriguez directing Brolin; how the actor is able to maintain such a badass demeanor with almost nothing physical to react to is beyond my comprehension, and precisely why he's a paid Hollywood star and I'm just a dude with a blog.

Below, you can see what the finished product of the scene will look like:

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Stacy Keach Joins 'Sin City' Sequel As Wallenquist

Posted 2/5/13 11:13 am EST by in Dark Horse, News

Stacy Keach

You can add yet another big name to the ever-growing cast of "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" today: Stacy Keach is officially on board.

The veteran actor, who will be seen later this year in "The Descendants" director Alexander Payne's "Nebraska," has joined the "Sin City" sequel as mob boss Herr Wallenquist, one of the most mysterious bad guys in the "Sin City" universe. He's described by "Sin City" creator and co-director Frank Miller as "the one man who can't be redeemed in Sin City. He is pure evil."

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'Mind MGMT' And 'Pyongyang' To Be Adapted

Posted 1/30/13 11:04 am EST by in Dark Horse, News

Mind MGMT

Did you know that comic book movie adaptations do well for the most part in theaters? Hollywood certainly does, as the list of graphic novels being brought to the big screen has grown ever longer. This time it's the Matt Kindt series "Mind MGMT" and Guy Delisle's "Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea" that are getting the adaptation treatment.

First up, Deadline is reporting that Gore Verbinski has signed on to produce and direct an adaptation on "Pyongyang," while "The Pursuit of Happyness" scribe Steve Conrad will pen the script. That graphic novel follows the journey of French animator Delisle as he travels to North Korea to supervise work on an animated film but ends up getting accused of espionage.

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Eva Green Joins 'Sin City' As The 'Dame To Kill For'

Posted 1/29/13 3:35 pm EST by in Dark Horse, News

Eva Green

At long last, the titular role in the "Sin City" sequel has been found!

Just an hour after announcing the casting of Julia Garner in "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For," co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have announced who will be playing the film's pivotal femme fatale: Eva Green, who is already getting into the comic book movie business later this year with "300: Rise of an Empire."

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'Sin City' Drags Julia Garner Into Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 'Long, Bad Night'

Posted 1/29/13 1:58 pm EST by in Dark Horse, News

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If it's a day of the week, then it's a day for "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" casting news.

The latest actor to move to Basin City is Julia Garner, who joins Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's sequel to the 2005 hit "Sin City" for a role opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Deadline reports the casting, saying that Garner will play "a young stripper" who shares scenes with JGL's character, a gambler named Johnny.

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Manute Reborn: 'Sin City' Director Talks Dennis Haysbert's 'Amazing Presence'

Posted 1/25/13 10:03 am EST by in Dark Horse, News

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When "Sin City" returns for its second film, it will come without a few of the original cast members in place. The late Michael Clarke Duncan is one such actor, but his hulking brute of a character, Manute, is an integral part of the "Dame to Kill For" story — which is why Robert Rodriguez needed to recast the role, rather than cut it from the film.

Filling in Duncan's shoes is Dennis Haysbert, who is perhaps best known for playing the calm and calculated President David Palmer for five seasons of Fox's "24." Manute presents the actor with a considerably different character, and Rodriguez says he's already doing a hell of a job.

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'Sin City' Gets New Blood, And Robert Rodriguez Explains Why

Posted 1/24/13 11:35 am EST by in Dark Horse, Hot Stuff, interviews

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"Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" won't be entirely recognizable to "Sin City" readers. Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's sequel to their 2005 hit comes packed with brand-new stories set in the noir world of Basin City, including one yarn called "The Long, Bad Night," featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as cocky gambler Johnny.

Why mix in completely original tales with the comic book storylines fans are already familiar with? Rodriguez has a very clear answer, as he explained to MTV News: "The first film was based solely on existing material, and we thought, wouldn't it be fun to go a little bit different with this? Rather than just bring books to life that people are already familiar with and can go out and buy and know what's going to happen, what if we created a couple of new stories from new characters that still intertwine with some of the ones that exist and have an element of surprise for the audience? And for storylines that we really liked, let's pay them off, have them come full circle from the first movie and build a real arc."

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Frank Darabont Wants Jon Bernthal For 'Smart' 'Conan'

Posted 1/24/13 7:54 am EST by in Dark Horse, News

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Frank Darabont and Jon Bernthal define the term "bromance." They worked on "The Walking Dead" together. After Darabont was fired, Berthnal also left the AMC series to work on "L.A. Noir" with him. And now, in a new interview, Darabont admits that he thinks Bernthal would be perfect as the lead in the "Conan the Barbarian" movie he'd like to make.

"I talked to Bernthal about that very thing just a couple of months ago," Darabont told io9. "I would still do a Conan movie! It would be an incredibly smart one. Because he could play what we've missed in Conan today on the screen. He's got some wit and he's got some intelligence. He's a canny, wily, brutal guy. Bernthal could play that, he really could."

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