Updated: March 29, 2005
Sin City - Written by Frank Miller, film co-directed by Robert Rodriguez
"Clive Owen as Dwight, the clandestine love of Shelley (Brittany Murphy), who spends his nights defending Gail (Rosario Dawson) and her Old Towne girls (Devon Aoki and Alexis Bledel) from Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro), a dirty cop with a penchant for violence.
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Final poster for Sin City thanks to Super Hero Hype
Time Magazine Sin City Review: Miller's Double Crossing -- Robert Rodriguez and a starry cast re-create Frank Miller's Sin City comics frame by noirish frame -- "Dwight (sturdy, haunted Clive Owen), on the lam from the law, protects the city's only honorable citizens: the hookers."
The Salt Lake Tribune: 'Sin City' rises in Austin, not Hollywood - Thanks, Lisa
The Hollywood Reporter - Sin City Review
Sci Fi Wire: Peeking Behind Sin City - Thanks, Jinete
The Chicago Tribune: Sin City -- "...Actor Clive Owen reports the on-set discussions got strange. "Only in 'Sin City' would you hear someone ask, 'Why doesn't he take her away and eat her limbs?'" Owen got the call to play private eye Dwight and was given a week to report with an American accent. "I just went for it," he says. "You read it. You know how to speak it."
From jira at the forum: Sin City Production Notes in 34 pages PDF file (Dwight on page 8 ). Here is the link.
Sin City Review at Slant Magazine
Sin City Reviews are coming in: Box Office Prophets -- a review by James Berardinelli -- more to come
Newsweek: Monsters' Ball -- A comic-book avatar and a maverick filmmaker team up for the delightfully depraved 'Sin City.' - Thanks, Lyna
Newsweek: Movie Forum: From 'Spy Kids' to 'Sin City' -- Send questions to director Robert Rodriguez, and NEWSWEEK will post his answers here on Friday, March 25 - Thanks, BaciaDolce at the forum
3/20 - The NY Daily News: Unpleasantville - Welcome to 'Sin City' - a film noir on steroids
The Yahoo Sin City Page has a behind the scenes video, including Clive. Thanks, Victoria
Reviews of Sin City from AICN: "Dwight is as crazy and violent as Marv, but Clive Owen keeps him the coolest of the three... From there we're introduced to Clive Owen (who OWNS in this flick)... The second is Clive Owen, who I can now safely say is one of my favorite actors, period.... Clive Owen and Rosario Dawson are two of the performances that stand out in my mind.... Not to jump on the CO bandwagon, but i think Clive Owens voiceover and acting seemed the most natural though Rourke and Willis were also pretty good." - Thanks, Leyla
Rosario Dawson Talks about Sin City: "...and Clive Owen as Dwight, the clandestine love of Shelley (Brittany Murphy), who spends his nights defending Gail (Rosario Dawson) and her Old Towne girls (Devon Aoki and Alexis Bledel) from Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro), a dirty cop with a penchant for violence."
SuperHeroHype.com is showing the Sin City posters in high res. Thanks, Leyla
From leyla: "QuintEssential Cinema has a Sin City fan trailer. They used footage from the first Comic Con trailer and added the Servants song from the other trailer. Not much Clive, but it's good. Scroll down and click on ALL NEW EXCLUSIVE SIN CITY TRAILER."
New Sin City Web site and forum - Thanks, Leyla
New Sin City Trailer and Posters! Source: Moviefone December 21, 2004 - Thanks, Coro and Steph
Sci Fi Wire: Sin City Is Faithful - Clive quoted
SuperHeroHype.com: First Word on the Sin City Trailer!
Information on Clive's character Dwight in Sin City. (Scroll) thanks to leyla at the Murphsplace Forum
New Sin City Trailer now available. Large File - and VERY violent (IMO). New Snaps from it HERE.
Sin City trailer available - Thanks, Syaz, Isobel
JoBlo has a long account of Sin City presentation at comic.con. Thanks, Jannie
7/27/04 - The NY Times on Comic Com
Dave Poland at the Hot Button: "Sin City was another prime example of Comic-Conning. The illusion that something affirmative happened at Comic-Con for this film was reported. But the truth is, the film was among the five most anticipated events at Comic-Con going in, the geeks already knew that Rodriguez and Frank Miller were in sync and that their vision would be pure, and all that could have happened by showing six minutes of footage would be to dampen spirits. It did not, which is great. But the bigger buzz comes from Rodriquez's cooler-than-thou attitude versus the tighter control of Lucas or WB on Batman Begins."
Empire on line on Sin City: "The use of shadows is masterful and, as Clive Owen confirmed exclusively to Empire last week, it’s extraordinarily faithful to Miller’s vision, retaining dialogue and plot exactly. Rodriguez talked about filling in the imagery between the panels depicted in the comic, about his ricket with the Directors’ Guild of America, and much, much more. All of which you can read about next week." Whole article HERE. Thanks, Jannie
Dark Horizons on Sin City: "The initial piece is a short vignette based on "The Customer's Always Right" and stars Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton talking on a balcony. All of the actors in this look SO different from what we're used to seeing them it's astonishing. Hartnett in this finally showed what his Clark Kent would've been like, Clive Owen has shoulder length long hair and a barber's old fashioned razor blade, Rosario Dawson struts around in a fishnet bodysuit, Rourke sports a bandaid covered face, and a heavily made up Nick Stahl does a great Yellow Bastard." Thanks, Da Yepper
7/15/04 - Empire on line: Sin City: "There's three books that are put together for one movie and I'm in one called The Big Fat Kill. I'm playing Dwight," said Owen. Dwight, FYI, is something of a Sin City regular, is a hard-nosed former photojournalist who, in The Big Fat Kill, he gets sucked into his old as-kicking ways when he gets involved with the Mob and an undercover cop. "Benicio Del Toro is Jackie Boy, Rosario Dawson is in it, Brittany Murphy's in it." - [Clive's section was directed by Quentin Tarantino] Thanks, Jannie
7/1/04 - Sci Fi Wire news: Owen Wraps Sin City
Clive will be seen in the last segment, The Big Fat Kill (according to the German site, Movie Fans and The Movie Box)
Dark Horse Comics: "With THE BIG FAT KILL, Frank Miller is at it again with another comics packed with guns, lovers, losers, and surprises. In Sin City's Old Town, the prostitutes run the show. "The cops stay out. That leaves the girls free to keep the pimps and the mob out." Sounds like an OK place, right? It is until a pushy, loud-mouthed guy who has had one too many drinks comes into Old Town and gets himself killed by the ladies. When they find out who he is, they realize that "it'll be war. The streets will run red with blood. Women's blood."
Film Force: The Latest Citizen of Sin City -- Rosario Dawson joins the cast.
Update on the Sin City news at CHUD
-- (Thanks, Brian!) - "The ambitious project has now added Benicio
Del Toro and supercool blackjack dealer Clive
Owen to the cast."
The Movie Box - Sin City - "Robert Rodriguez has closed his cast
on Sin City by adding Benicio Del Toro and Clive Owen to the Dimension
Films ensemble project, reports Variety. Rodriguez wrote the script and
is co-directing the screen version of the graphic novel series with its
creator Frank Miller. The noir drama is divided into three chapters named
for titles in the Miller series: "Sin City," "That Yellow
Bastard" and "The Big Fat Kill." Del Toro and Owen
will be seen in the last segment, along with Brittany Murphy.
The film cast also includes Bruce Willis, Josh Hartnett, Mickey Rourke,
Nick Stahl, Jessica Alba, Elijah Wood, Carla Gugino, Jaime King and Marley
Shelton. The trade adds that Rodriguez still hopes to draft Quentin Tarantino
to direct at least part of that segment, once the "Kill Bill"
helmer returns from presiding over the Cannes Film Festival jury. "City"
is shooting in Austin, Texas."
Amazon, Sin City (The Big Fat Kill) Paperback - Criminals have always called the shots in Sin City, whether they were bootleggers, gamblers, or politicians. But since the first dame set up shop in Old Town, those side streets have been run by the women that walk the night. Now the mob's looking to break up the party and reclaim Old Town. They're gonna have to put down a bunch of tough gals and one guy named Dwight to do it. Dwight, he knows something that the mob's gotta learn the hard way: Sometimes standing up for your friends means killing a whole lot of people . . .