Sin City 2 movie rights are today being shopped around Hol­ly­wood, report THR. It appears that Dimen­sion Films (The Wein­stein Co./Dimension) may have even­tu­ally lost rights to the prop­erty; although they do still main­tain they have the rights on the sequel. This is coun­tered by pro­duc­ers that have ‘shopped for’ the rights to Sin City through rep­re­sen­ta­tives — they are actively seek­ing a new space to set up the Sin City sequel.

This may have come through inac­tiv­ity and ‘lan­guished development’.

The The Wein­stein Co. attor­ney maintains:

“TWC’s rights to pro­duce sequels to ‘Sin City’ remain intact as they always have been.”

Accord­ing to Clint Mor­ris and a high pro­file pro­ducer friend, Angelina Jolie is in seri­ous talks about appear­ing in the Sin City sequel. Jolie orig­i­nally spoke about a pos­si­ble involve­ment in Sin City 2 back in 2006 (see our cast­ing rumors from 08). How­ever it now seems that pro­duc­tion has stepped up a level and the film­mak­ers are actively look­ing for Jolie to offi­cially com­mit to the project.

Rumor has it that Angelina Jolie is inline to play Ava Lord, the female star of ‘A Dame to Kill For’.

The rights for the movie have recently come into ques­tion, and maybe this lit­tle palaver has sprung the Wein­steins into action to ensure they don’t.

This one throws a bit of a span­ner in the works, as recently as last week Mickey Rourke sug­gested he would be on board for the Sin City sequel, based on “A Dame to Kill for”. How­ever, at The Wrestler press jun­ket his words were not so keen,

“No, I’m not inter­ested in that right now. That’s not a real­ity right now. It’s piss­ing in the wind,” Rourke admit­ted. “There’s dif­fer­ent fac­tions going dif­fer­ent direc­tions there. I don’t know. That’s three hours of make up and I’m claus­tro­pho­bic, so I’m going to have to work some­thing out.”

Source: CS

Sin City 2’s sto­ry­line is set to include some “Blue Eyes” sto­ries, which include The Colonel, played by Josh Hart­nett in the first film. Whether he shall reprise his role is as of yet uncon­firmed. Clive Owen is expected to return as Dwight and IMDB list Jes­sica Alba as Nancy Calla­han once again.

Bruce Willis shall not be return­ing as the now deceased Har­ti­gan, though if a future story fea­tured his char­ac­ter he says he would love to make a re-appearance.

There have been many rumors sur­round­ing the role of Ava Lord (stun­ningly fea­tured in the top right of our header image). In 2006 Rosario Daw­son (set to reprise her role as Gail) hinted that Angelina Jolie was Rodriguez’s prime tar­get, though since then Rose McGowan (Grind­house) and Salma Hayek have also been linked. Jolie has recently stated that she will be tak­ing a break from film­ing dur­ing 2008. The lat­est uncon­firmed rumor is that Rachel Weisz is inline to play Ava.

Both Anto­nio Ban­deras and Johnny Depp have been rumored to play Wal­lace, also rumored for a third film expected to entirely revolve around “Hell and Back”

The specifics of the Sin City sequel are rel­a­tively unknown at this junc­ture — how­ever cre­ator Frank Miller, speak­ing in Feb­ru­ary 2007, con­firmed that the graphic novel, “A Dame to Kill For” shall be adapted for the big screen, along with a pre­quel to “The Hard Good­bye” as well as some “Blue Eyes” and “Old Town Girls” sto­ries (found in Booze, Broads and Bul­lets).

The film shall also fea­ture an alto­gether new sec­tion, revolv­ing around Nancy Calla­han (Jes­sica Alba) in a “very dif­fer­ent, scary role”.

Source: SciFi