Frank Miller Gets Back Film and TV Rights To SIN CITY

Frank Miller Gets Back Film and TV Rights To SIN CITY

Following the multi-million dollar sale of The Weinstein Company, Frank Miller has regained the Film and TV rights to his noir comic book series. Details after the jump...

By BR74 - Jul 28, 2018 02:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Comics
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
When Sin City hit the big screen in 2005, the film was distributed by Miramax, a company founded by the Weinstein Brothers. As a result of producer Harvey Weinstein's much-publicized downfall last year, the Weinstein Company went into bankruptcy and had to be sold off. Lantern Capital Partners recently bought the studio for S289 million.

Miller opposed the inclusion of the rights to Sin City in the sale to Lantern. As part of a settlement,  Lantern agreed to give Miller the rights to the 2005 film as well as any future Sin City film and tv adaptations. 2014's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is not part of this arrangement.

In 2017, a Sin City tv series spearheaded by former showrunner of The Walking Dead Glenn Mazzara and Underworld Director Len Wiseman was in the works. It seems unlikely that Miller will proceed with those plans now that he has the tv rights to his creation.

Miller co-directed both films in the series with Robert Rodriguez. The original was a hit, earning $158 million at the box office while the sequel brought in only $39 million. Would you like to see more stories set in the world of Sin City? Let us know in the comments.
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aflynn
aflynn - 7/28/2018, 3:32 PM
I am fine with the idea of a Sin City TV Show.
dracula
dracula - 7/28/2018, 3:44 PM
Sin City was great.
Sin City A Dame To Kill For was crap.
Maybe do a tv series as an anthology series, each season expanding on one of the original stories, but keep Frank Miller out of it, he was a great writer once, but now his writing is crap.
Odin
Odin - 7/28/2018, 3:56 PM
They should do a third Sin City movie based on Hell and back -storyline. That story is long enough to fill a whole movie alone. It would also be visually interesting.
MOVIELORD101
MOVIELORD101 - 7/28/2018, 6:01 PM
@Odin - Oddly enough, he and Robert WERE planning on doing JUST Hell and Back as the third movie, but that was around 2007 or so before the second movie came out.
MitchConner
MitchConner - 7/28/2018, 4:26 PM
First movie was okay, 2nd was garbage, and the 2nd killed goodwill of the 1st. I couldn’t care less who makes the next one, I won’t be watching
marvel72
marvel72 - 7/28/2018, 4:46 PM
The first movie was great,the second had its moments but nowhere near as good.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 7/28/2018, 5:26 PM
Okay, but it's not like The Spirit was all that exceptional, as far as directorial efforts go. Better step his game up on screen to match his awesome stories.
BillyBatson1000
BillyBatson1000 - 7/29/2018, 4:45 AM
Loved the first Sin City film, it captured exactly what the comic was about. The sequel came too late (was it really 9-years in between?), lost all the magic, and Frank did himself no favors with a volte-face against his previous fan base. However, I noticed an interesting thing; if you watch the sequel and miss out the first plot chapter (with Marv), the film actually works. It's a structural thing, I guess.
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