Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez discussed some of his plans for the Sin City DVD release with Home Media Retailing and what he has in mind should result in another surge of interest in Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novels when the film is released on DVD later this year.  In addition to the regular cut of the film Rodriguez is planning to include the three separate stories on a second disk in separate cut versions of about 45 minutes each in length. 

Rodriguez noted: 'We shot the full stories of the books, so (on the DVD) you can watch The Big Fat Kill from beginning to end.  Then switch over and watch That Yellow Bastard.  It'll have all the material back in, so it'll be like the experience of picking up the book, and you read it from beginning to end...Mickey Rourke doesn't go visit his mom (in the movie version) like he did in the book, and get his gun and things like that, but we shot all that. It's all great stuff.  It just wasn't necessary for the feature.'  The fact that viewers will be able to view the three Miller graphic novels (The Hard Goodbye is the other) in linear fashion should only enhance interest in the books.

In addition to all the extra footage Rodriguez plans to include behind-the-scenes footage of co-director Quentin Tarantino actually giving the actors direction, plus a '20-Minute Film School' segment showing how he and Frank Miller brought the pages of the Sin City books to the screen, and a '10-Minute Cooking School' segment on how to make Sin City Breakfast Tacos, guaranteed to be a life-changing experience.

Meanwhile Sin City has earned over $60 million at the domestic box office and has now passed Hellboy, though it is in no danger of overtaking Pulp Fiction, which at $107 million remains the box office champion of the genre.