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IGN’s FilmForce has an interview with the so-called Ladies of Sin City, or more specifically Rosario Dawson, Brittany Murphy and Jessica Alba. The article describes the roster of femme fatales in the Sin City film this way: The ladies of Sin City, in contrast, are sexy seductresses. They’ll keep the men happy, but if you cross them, you probably won’t live to tell about it.
Continuing the series of character posters (we last left off with Jessica Alba), we have Brittany Murphy posing as Sin City waitress Shellie (while her loose-fitting shirt does battle with a wind machine). This advance poster echoes the tinting Robert Rodriguez did with the palette for the film — previous versions of some Sin City posters were black and white, only to be re-released with slight tinting. Only blood red lips get the tinting treatment in the poster for the dangerous trio of the girls (Devon Aoki, Rosario Dawson, and Alexis Bledel) from Sin City’s Old Town.
With the upcoming release of the Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller film Sin City, comes a series of character posters that have quickly become fan-boy favorites. Like the film itself, the movie posters for the comic book film adaptation are striking graphic representations of Frank Miller’s original duotone artwork in the Sin City graphic novels.
First up is the character movie poster for Nancy, played by recent GQ cover model and “it girl” of the moment Jessica Alba. One of the centerpieces of the film, the character Nancy Callahan is a stripper who performs nightly at Katie’s Club Pecos in the underworld of Sin City. Whether you consider it stunt casting or brilliant casting, Alba is more than capable of representing the “comic noir” of the film’s key art.
The advance poster for the upcoming film the Fantastic Four features Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd), Susan Storm / The Invisible Woman (Jessica Alba), Johnny Storm / The Human Torch (Chris Evans), and Ben Grimm / The Thing (Michael Chiklis). (Perhaps their arch enemy Doctor Doom will make an appearance in the final domestic one-sheet.) Like the previous Marvel Comics film adaptation, the Fantastic Four seems to be following the look and feel established by X-Men — which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You can see an earlier version of this photography/artwork (with slightly different posing and less retouching) in this Fantastic Four promotional photo.
