I did not see this one coming from a mile away. It appears that Sin City 2 may not happen. We get the scoop from the moviehole:
Michael Madsen, who’d be reprising his role as ‘Bill’ in the sequel, says the fact that Robert Rodriguez’s last film “Grindhouse” bombed at the box office doesn’t fare well for the director’s computer-created “Sin City” follow-up.
“They haven’t shot it yet. I don’t know if they ever will. I am not sure [about] the franchise. I think the Grindhouse thing didn’t kind of work out”, Madsen tells Premiere.com. “The only reason I did it was because Robert Rodriguez said that if I took that little part I would get a bigger role in the sequel, that Bob would have more to do in the sequel. So I said: “Okay, fine.”
Madsen did confirm however that he’d indeed be starring in the long-gestating “Inglorious Bastards” – the next film from Quentin Tarantino.
Sin City has a number of stories that may be converted in like manner to the first. Since the first film did so well I thought it a shoe in for a sequel, but according to Madsen this is not necessarily the case. It would seem odd that Rodriguez gets breaks put on a Sin City sequel but Machete has been green lit? We will wait and see.
I am happy to learn that Inglorious Bastards is moving ahead. It is no secret that I disliked Death Proof, but I am still a Tarantino fan, I believe in him as an action Director and I am excited to see him take the reigns of a war epic.
