I’ve given up hope that we’ll ever see a sequel to Sin City. It’s an acceptance I’m okay with though. A second picture might detract from what the first movie managed to accomplish; make it less special, if you will. We want the only competition Sin City has to be Frank Miller’s horrendous take on The Spirit, which helps remind us why Sin City was so cool in the first place.

Jamie King says hope for a sequel isn’t gone though. The actress told Collider that Frank Miller has allegedly finished the sequel’s script and will be ready to start shooting later this year. She also says there are lots of reasons why the sequel hasn’t come to us sooner, mostly because of the success of the first one, which led to too many cooks in the kitchen.

”I think when Sin City came out it was such a big hit for the studio but the studio is frustrating,” King told the site. ”Sometimes studios are awesome because they have a great vision for something, but then they want to do weird things with the second one. Robert didn’t want to go down that route, so we’ve just be waiting till somebody knocked some sense into them, where we can do it the way we want to do it. None of the filmmakers or the actors were willing to sacrifice doing it any other way other than what we wanted to do it. I’m hoping we’ll do it sometime this year. But you know how movies are…”

I have to say I’m not convinced, but King seems optimistic. She also says Miller’s script is a mix of old and new for Sin City, which means, if it happens, we’ll see some of Miller’s classic comic brought to life as well as some new stories for fans of the franchise.