R-Rod Does Fire & Ice Redux After Sin 2

Director Robert Rodriguez told Heat Vision that once he finishes work on "Machete Kills" and the upcoming sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, he's finally going to do his long gestating remake of  Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta's 1983 animated feature "Fire and Ice"

Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas wrote the original, a fantasy adventure in which a villager and the princess of the land of Firekeep team to stop the evil Queen of Icepeak from destroying the world with glaciers.

Rodriguez says "We’re almost done with the script; we’ve got it pretty much 70 percent there. I’m really excited about that one… the timing is going to work out just right, and we’ll have a finished script in the next month or so."

The original film used rotoscoping, the technique where animation is drawn on top of live action. But Rodriguez's version will use to the green screen tech of his "Sin City" films.

"The whole idea is to make it using the technology I used for Sin City because I want it to be as if you stepped into one of his paintings" says Rodriguez.