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Owen, Del Toro lured into 'Sin City'
Robert Rodriguez (news) has closed his cast on "Sin City" by adding Benicio Del Toro (news) and Clive Owen (news) to the Dimension Films ensemble pic.
Rodriguez wrote the script and is co-directing the screen version of the graphic novel series with its creator Frank Miller.
The noir drama is divided into three chapters named for titles in the Miller series: "Sin City," "That Yellow Bastard" and "The Big Fat Kill."
Del Toro and Owen will be seen in the last segment, along with Brittany Murphy (news).
Rodriguez still hopes to draft Quentin Tarantino (news) to direct at least part of that segment, once the "Kill Bill" helmer returns from presiding over the Cannes Film Festival (news - web sites) jury. Pic is shooting in Austin, Texas.
Despite persistent rumors, neither Leonardo DiCaprio (news) nor Johnny Depp (news) committed to "Sin." Still, Rodriguez cajoled quite a few name performers to take part, including Bruce Willis (news), Josh Hartnett (news), Mickey Rourke (news), Nick Stahl (news), Jessica Alba (news), Elijah Wood (news), Carla Gugino (news), Jaime King and Marley Shelton (news).
Dimension co-chairman Bob Weinstein and co-prexys Brad Weston and Andrew Rona are supervising production, and Rodriguez is producing with Elizabeth Avellan through their Troublemaker Studios label.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...9/va_mi/owen_1
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Hartnett Helps in Sell of 'Sin'
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) -- Josh Hartnett reveals he plays an unnamed character in the adaptation of Frank Miller's stories "Sin City," directed by Robert Rodriguez ("Once Upon A Time in Mexico.")
His character doesn't make such a big appearance in this story. "I'm just in the beginning and the end," admits Hartnett while doing press for "Wicker Park." "In the script, we call him 'The Man.' So, it's kind of like take what you will from that."
The 26-year-old actor recalls, "The reason I got into it is because Robert Rodriguez needed to get the rights from Frank Miller. Frank had felt like he had been duped before. He didn't want to give the rights away to his baby, Sin City."
Hartnett tells Zap2it.com, "He [Rodriguez] was like, 'Well, just come down here for a couple days, we'll shoot a scene and show Frank that we're going to do this right.' So I went down there and then Frank gave him the rights after that."
The film follows three stories in the violent city where the cops are corrupt. Marv, played by Mickey Rourke ("Spun") is a street fighter who goes on a rampage after Goldie, played by Jamie King ("Pearl Harbor"), is killed while lying in bed with him.
The film boasts a number of well-know celebrities including Benecio Del Toro, ("Traffic") Bruce Willis ("The Sixth Sense"), Brittany Murphy ("8 Mile") Elijah Wood ("The Lord of the Rings") and Rosario Dawson ("Men in Black II.")
"Sin City" is slated for release in 2005.
http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/st...-22743,00.html
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