* Ruben Fleischer swung and missed badly with Gangster Squad, but Disney is willing to look past that, tapping him to direct Overnight. In what sounds like Home Alone meets Career Opportunities, the story centers on a father and son who win an overnight stay in a toy store, only to have thieves try to rob the place. Hey, this is Disney, so chances are everything will turn out okay, and since this is in a toy store there should be plenty of room for product placement. [Deadline]
* It was nine long years between Sin City and this summer's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, with Robert Rodriguez stringing us along the whole way. So I'm not holding my breath for a third film or any possible TV series, but co-director and Sin City creator Frank Miller is already looking ahead. Rodriguez told Sirius XM's Ron and Fez...
"Yeah - the second Sin City - I was just here with Frank Miller last night and we were watching it last night. [We] finished the cut, effects are being done, it will come out in August. He [Miller] watched Part 2 - he watched it last night with me and then at the end he said, he didn't have any comments, he was very happy with it. And he said, now about part three.... Started telling me how he's going to do part three. So he's already there on part three."
Yeah, we'll see about that. And note how Rodriguez put all of the burden on Miller, and none on himself. It may all depend on how Sin City: A Dame to Kill For performs beginning August 22nd.
