Frank Miller's Sin City franchise might be coming back as a television series after a rights deal with Legendary Television. Sin City began as a series of neo-noir comics, first published in 1991 by Dark Horse comics. Writer-Artist Frank Miller is a well-known American comic book creator, having also worked on the Daredevil series for Marvel Comics, Batman: Year One for DC Comics, and many other projects. His Sin City series has been previously adapted into two films, with the first releasing in 2005 and a sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, in 2014.

Sin City is about a fictional town in the American west named Basin City, nicknamed and commonly referred to as Sin City. The comics are a series of different stories all set in the same universe, based around crime, violence, and anything else you might find in a dark and seedy city. A couple years ago, there was an attempt to adapt the comics into a television series, with Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead) signed on as the Sin City TV show showrunner, but it didn't come to fruition.

As reported by Deadline, a deal is also close with Robert Rodriguez, who co-directed both of the film adaptations with Frank Miller. Rodriguez and Miller are expected to be executive producers, along with producer Stephen L'Heureux, who was a producer on Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and Silenn Thomas, who is CEO of Miller's production company, Frank Miller Ink. Detailed in the deal, Legendary Television guarantees a first season of the TV show, dependent on if they can set it up with a network or streaming platform. In addition to that, the deal includes another project, an R-rated animated prequel series also based on the Sin City comics.


After the 2005 release of Sin City, Robert Rodriguez directed and produced an extensive list of films and television series. The most well-known are the Spy Kids franchise, Grindhouse and the films that spun out of that project, like Machete and Planet Terror, and most recently, Alita: Battle Angel. Frank Miller has won many awards for his graphic novels and comic writing, including the comic limited series 300, which was adapted into a critically-acclaimed film in 2006 by Zack Snyder. Miller regained the film and TV rights to Sin City in 2018 after a failed television project with the defunct label TWC-Dimension.

The possible reunion of Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez brings a lot of hope to long-time fans who have been waiting for news of a Sin City television series. It is not known yet if they will co-direct as they have on past adaptations, but clearly they respect each other's work and vision and share a passion for the material. While the Sin City franchise was successful at one point, the 2014 sequel failed both at the box office and with critics, so fans will have to wait and see whether there is any life left in the Sin City franchise.