Robert Rodriguez: 'Fire And Ice' Will Film After 'Sin City'

Robert Rodriguez has a busy year coming up. First he has "Machete Kills," then he starts filming "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For," and after that he's just announced he'll transition straight into his planned loose remake of the 1983 animated film "Fire and Ice."

"That's in the works to go right into after 'Sin City,' Frank Frazetta's 'Fire and Ice,'" he told The Hollywood Reporter. "We're almost done with the script, we've got it pretty much 70 percent there – I'm really excited about that one."

Ever since Rodriguez announced the film at Comic-Con last year, it's become clear that it's his newest passion project. He's been a longtime admirer of artist Frank Frazetta's work, and decided that he wanted to do it justice on the big screen in the way that they couldn't do in 1983 with "Fire and Ice."

"The story itself was based on someone looking at one of Frank's paintings and saying, 'Let's do this.' So they wanted to make the definitive Frank movie, but they didn't have the technology back then to make it look like the painting, so it looked more like a cartoon," he told MTV News at Comic-Con last year. "I saw it when I was 15 and I thought, 'Wow, I wish it could be more like the paintings."

He continued, "What I want to do today is make a movie where you go into the paintings, where it feels like you're in the world of Frank Frazetta. So we would take the storyline that they came up with back then, but update it for today and make it more epic and make it what they weren't able to do back then. That was the rough sketch, this is the real painting."

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