I really wanted to like the movie version of Frank Miller’s Sin City, and while I was blown away by Robert Rodriguez’s visuals, the relentless gore and violence, at the service of no apparent moral agenda, was just too much for me to stomach. (Go ahead, fanboys, flame me below.) So I wasn’t thrilled to read in Variety that the Weinstein Co. plans to turn the franchise into a TV series after next year’s movie sequel. I do wonder, though, who would air it? It would have to be HBO or Showtime (or, if Rodriguez and Miller tone it down a bit, FX).
The same Variety story notes that the Weinsteins want to turn another Miramax movie, Rounders, into a series, to capitalize on the current trendiness of poker. Guess they released that movie about five years too early. Someone call Vanity Fair and tell them to put Gretchen Mol back on the cover. It’s not too late to make her a star, right?
Right? Anyone? Bueller?
FX sounds just about right for a “Sin City” series if they cut back on production costs. As far as Gretchen is concerned, it was always my opinion of that lamentable cover choice that Graydon Carter was more about featuring her taut “blouse candy,” than the budding thespian.
Gretchen Mol is over. Give her up.
Sin City as a series? If it doesn’t have Rodriguez’s style, what’s the point?
The movie had Frank Miller – the comic’s original creator – on board as a co-director/visual consultant. I doubt they’ll be able to tie him up with a series.
It won’t have the same spirit and it’ll detract from the source material. I’m not enthused.
Besides, a lot of the characters story lines in Sin City intersect with one another. Are they going to bring in Mickey Rourke to play Marv? What about Clive Owen? I imagine they’re probably busy.
One could argue, righteously, that Gretchen Moll never began …
I liked “Sin City” but in the same way that I liked “Closer” – neither movie resembles anything real or human, but they end up making some pretty interesting comments on life.
I can’t imagine “Sin City” working as a series, though. I’m also a little puzzled – I thought Frank Miller was so protective of his work he was never going to let it be filmed until Rodriguez convinced him it could be done right. Now he wants his series butchered on a weekly basis? Guess the horrible reviews for All-Star Batman have made him long for other mediums?