Return To Sin City With The Brand New 'A Dame To Kill For' Trailer

It's been nine years' wait, but fans of Robert Rodriguez's 2005 adaptation of Frank Miller's seminal neo-noir graphic novel series Sin City have the second taste of its repeatedly delayed prequel/sequel, A Dame To Kill For.

Having languished in development hell for most of the past decade -- and at various times having names such as Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Rose McGowan and Rachel Weisz tapped to star -- A Dame To Kill For draws most of its content from Miller's book of the same name, the second in the series and set several years before the events of first-film vignette The Big Fat Kill -- and if there was any remaining doubt, it looks like it's going to have been well worth the wait.

A Dame To Kill For -- the story -- follows Dwight (played in the first film and briefly in the second by Clive Owen) before he looked like Clive Owen. Switched-on viewers of Sin City will recall Dwight's line about having a "new face" -- well, that's because he damn well needed one following the tumultuous events that befall him in A Dame To Kill For, in which Josh Brolin takes over as Dwight for most of the story as he seeks revenge against femme fatale and ex-lover Ava Lord (Eva Green).

As with the original movie, A Dame To Kill For juggles several storylines, with additional tales revisting Sin City breakout Marv (Mickey Rourke) prior to his execution at the end of Sin City (Just Another Saturday Night) as well as introducing film-only stories such as that of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Johnny (The Long Bad Night), and a piece in which we catch up with Jessica Alba's exotic dancer Nancy (The Fat Loss), who has turned all tough and trigger-happy in the wake of the suicide of Hartigan (Bruce Willis).

The film also stars returning cast members Powers Boothe (Senator Roark), Rosario Dawson (Gail) and Jaime King (Goldie/Wendy), with Jamie Chung (Miho) and Dennis Haysbert (Manute) stepping in to replace the departed Devon Aoki and the late Michael Clarke Duncan.

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For hits cinemas in August.