Hollywood Sets Up Another Frank Miller Comic Adaptation, Hopes He Doesn’t Run Out of Ideas

May 2, 2007

Another big screen adaptation of a Frank Miller graphic novel is in the works as the Japanese manga-inspired epic Ronin will soon make it to the big screen.

Since Sin City and 300 made bags of money with little cost, Hollywood is going bat shiyat for the graphic novelist. Now Warner Brothers Pictures has acquired the film rights to the dystopic samurai tale and Stomp the Yard director Sylvain White wrote a treatment and is set to head up the picture, Variety reports.

Ronin—a tale following a samurai reincarnated in post-apocalyptic New York—was published by DC comics in the early 1980s. The plan is to shoot the film in the same manner as 300, primarily on soundstages in front of green and blue screens with most of the backgrounds done with post-production CGI.

Also, if Ronin made even half of 300’s $430 million US worldwide box office, they wouldn’t complain either.

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