300 producer Gianni Nunnari has announced that Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard) will direct an adaptation of Frank Miller's Ronin.  Ronin, the saga of a 13th Century samurai mysteriously transported to 20th Century New York where he encounters contemporary corruption and the reincarnation of his sworn enemy Agat, is in many ways a much more difficult work to adapt for the screen than the more focused Sin City and 300.

In an interview on the Internet site blackfilm, Sylvain, who grew up in France, expressed his admiration for Miller's work--'Miller is one of the few Americans whose graphic novels I really like'--and promised to try to be as faithful as possible to Miller's vision, 'The idea will be to stay close to the graphic novel.  Ronin is very dense and very long so of course we are going to have to streamline the story to fit it within a movie time frame.'

The success of Zack Snyder's adaptation of Frank Miller's 300, which opens March 9th, will probably have a lot to do with how quickly the film adaptation of Ronin makes it to the silver screen.