It is rare that a film that was as successful as 2005’s Sin City manages to go seven years in Hollywood without someone making a sequel.  Produced for $40 million, the original Sin City earned nearly four times that amount in its worldwide theatrical run, and then did exceptionally well on home video as well.  But conflicting schedules among the co-directors of the original film, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, plus other conflicts have delayed the sequel, which is now slated to debut a full 8 and one-half years after the first Sin City film.

 

 

Dawson explained that the new Sin City movie was "a sort of prequel to the Sin City we’ve already watched," and she appeared to indicate that her character Gail might be getting the facial reconstructive surgery that the photographer character Dwight McCarthy (played by Clive Owen in the original Sin City) receives in Frank Miller’s original Sin City comic book series.