Sin City

Some color is used, just like the books, but yes, it's in black and white. Yes, voice-over is used. You won't believe it until you see it for yorself, but trust me, much of what was shown was EXACT duplications of the books. Exact. The same use of shadow and silhouette and odd perspective and all of it. EVERYthing. That's why they used mostly green screen, so that every single shot can be stylized like Frank Miller's visions from the books.

Robert and Frank co-directed, and whenever Frank wanted to change a shot, Rodriguez would whip out the books, and say, "Nope, that's not how you inked it." When Frank was told his own original vision was best, he usually agreed.

There was some improvising on the set, and certainly some things "between" the action in the panels had to be invented, but all in all they say they were painstakingly faithful to the Sin City books. From the little we saw, I'd have to say yes, INCREDIBLY faithful. It's amaizng stuff.

By the way, this is now hanging in my home...



Yes, Mickey Rourke is soooooo Marv.

Nope, those are the only four teaser posters they've released so far. They were handing out freebies at the Con, and if you stood in line you could get the girls to sign theirs.

EBAY, here I come!

So far the Mickey Rourke/Marv ones seem to be the most common.

...those stills are all taken from the clips that played at Comic-Con in July.

Is the guy in the yellow make-up John C. Reilly?

No. That's Nick Stahl (Terminator 3) as That Yellow Bastard.