Aparently nobody could get the rights away from Miller who wants nothing to do with Hollywood following his involvement with Robocop 2 & 3. But Robert Rodriguez wrote a script for SC the movie that baiscally interweves the original miniseries, dame to kill for, and that yellow bastard into one movie. Then he cast Josh Hartnett (I think as Dwight) and some famous actress and went out and shot the first 10 min of the movie, still without having acquired the rights and done entirely in secret. Aparently he't been working for years to develop this movie, and has come up with some camera/digital technique to make the movie look exactly like the comic.
So now he has the first ten minutes, and he gets ahold of Miller and invites him over to his house, and says "look, I'll show you what I have, and if you like it we'll do the whole movie, and if you don't I'll burn it and never tell a soul that we did this"
Miller liked what he saw and now the movie is a go ahead. RR has a dream cast of huge name stars (which have not been revealed as of yet) whom he is going to approach using the first 10 minutes as a sample of what is to come in hopes of wooing them into the project.
It sounds like if this works out, the film could be great, but there is still a lot of ways this can go wrong. After all more then a couple of RR's movies are complete crap.
Still I'm excited/