Back in late August is was discovered that Oscar winning writer William Monahan had signed on to write
Sin City 2.
Collider recently sat down with Monahan to talk about working on the film. Monahan touched on a number of subjects regarding the project including how long he has been working on it, how much of him self is in the script, and if he has added any characters to the story. He also said he is just finishing up the script and getting ready to move on to his next project, The Gambler.
I don’t know, I guess Robert (Rodriguez) went to my agents and asked if I was available. I had a conversation with him and it just went on for two week periods with a reading period in between them. It’s terrific stuff, I love being in that Sin City world and being able to do that hard-boiled kind of thing.
On how much he draws from Frank Miller and how much of him self is in the script:
I should qualify my previous response about making things your own when you write them. In this case, my job is essentially to be Frank Miller. I have to, as an improvisational actor, be Frank Miller while simultaneously being Monahan. It’s pretty cool because as a screenwriter, as a dramatist, what you’re doing all the time is inhabiting characters and improvising. In writing drama, there’s a great component of being an improvisational actor and there’s also a component of being an improvisational writer who can inhabit another personality and deliver something in the correct tone. Frank Miller is emphatically Frank Miller. That’s what I wanted to see in Sin City and that’s what I want to see in Sin City 2.
On how long he has been working on the script:
Monday will be the end of my fourth week.
On if he put in any of his own characters in the story or if they are all Frank Miller's:
No, they are the Frank Miller characters.
On writing the script as an R-rated movie:
Was the first one R-rated? Oh God, it must have been, yeah. I wasn’t even thinking about that. There’s a whole class of shit I never think about. I was just about ready to let my twelve year old watch something the other day and my wife said, “You can’t do that. It’s too bloody.” And I said, “What do you mean ‘it’s bloody?’” Then I watched it and went, “Oh yeah, it is”. But the kids are never frightened by movies because they know especially well that movies are made up. It’s interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.
On if the fan should be excited for anything in particular:
I think they should be excited that there’s a second Frank Miller movie coming out with Robert doing it, because Robert’s excited and I’m certainly excited to be able to work on this material. It’s going like a rocket.
With Monahan finishing up the script looks like we could see them start production pretty soon. On the other hand this movie has been delayed several times and it could just mean that a good writer to work on a script for a movie that will never get made. Share your thoughts on if you think
Sin City 2 will ever see the light of day in the comment boxes below.