The Dame is Eva!

Eva Green is the dame to kill for. Before you go ahead imagining all the things you would do for Eva Green, come back to reality. I did not mean my first line in a very literal sense, even though that might be true. What I meant was that Sin City: A Dame to Kill For has finally discovered the actor to play the titular character with the casting of Eva Green as Lord Ava or the Dame. It finally ends a long running casting saga which had seen most notably Angelina Jolie rumoured to play this role. While few can match the screen presence of Jolie, I find the casting of Eva Green as intriguing and charming and it gives me another reason to look forward to this Frank Miller / Robert Rodriguez directed movie. Intriguing enough that I blog about it on a day when the makers of The Wolverine released this epic cool picture...

... and Marvel Studios released a free-falling poster for Iron Man 3...

... and yet Eva Green captures my attention. Eva Green really burst into the limelight with her role as Vesper in Casino Royale, a role I find that remains heavily underrated as Daniel Craig stole the limelight with the rusty Bond style. But Eva Green captured the screen effectively, being coy and charming, seductive and scheming, the only one maybe who ever won Bond's heart. A role that deserved applause for showcasing a very different Bond Girl as the Bond series itself took a different direction. I eagerly looked forward to Eva Green's future projects but the next highly anticipated movie The Golden Compass turned out to be mixture of disappointments. Few more mediocre movies followed and then Tim Burton's Dark Shadows last year also failed to turn into something noteworthy. Interestingly, Eva Green played a witch in both The Golden Compass and Dark Shadows. My mind is racing to find out another actress who has played a witch more than once... aarggh... stop the trivia hunt! 

Well, here is the chance to set things right again for Eva Green. She joins a sterling cast including Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Josh Brolin, Jessica Alba, and new joinee Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As Frank Miller says that Eva Green's character is "every man's most glorious dreams come true, she's also every man's darkest nightmares." You could so well see Eva doing justice to this kind of role. An October 2013 release is on the cards, and I hope things proceed in time with the major casting seems to have been completed. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is now all set to be a movie to kill for!