Word on the Sin City 2 front really got good as MTV has up a huge interview with director Robert Rodriguez concerning the project, and get this, with possibly Johnny Depp and Antonio Banderas joining the frey. Shouldn’t be too hard for the director to get them since Johnny was originally eyed to play Jackie Boy (Benicio del Toro got the role) and both Depp and Banderas have starred for Rodriguez before with Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
Here is a snippet from the MTV interview, but you can get the full thing here, which also mentions that “Sin City” creator Frank Miller has already rewritten some of his work to facilitate the new actors! Yeah, you are excited too!
[Depp] was interested in doing the Jackie Boy character that Benicio [Del Toro] played [in the first one], but he was doing that movie ‘Libertine’ in Europe and it just kept getting pushed and delayed and went right through our shooting schedule,” Rodriquez said of the actor he directed in “Once Upon a Time in Mexico.” “But there is a better role for him in [‘Hell and Back’]. I kept going, ‘Gosh, Jackie Boy is a small part, he could be really good [as Wallace].’ When he wasn’t available, I thought maybe it was meant to be.”
While no deal is in place for Depp at the moment, Rodriguez seemed coyly confident they would get the Oscar-nominated actor. The director was equally excited about potentially casting another of his old favorites, Antonio Banderas.
“When I showed him the first sample of the work, he went, ‘Man I’ll do anything in that. I’ll be the hunchback. You have to bring me onboard, that looks amazing,’ ” Rodriguez recalled. “So Frank met him that time too and he said, ‘I have got to find something for that guy. I’ve never met him before. He’s amazing.’ [So we’re] looking at the cast of characters and [looking] to see where he can fit.”
