Robert Rodriguez, director of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, has confirmed that Bruce Willis will have a role in the film. Willis played the character Hartigan in the first film, a police officer looking out for Jessica Alba’s character, Nancy. Since we know at least portions of A Dame to Kill For will take place before the latter stories of the original Sin City film, it’ll likely explore events before the first film’s finale.

“Bruce is back, so you’ll be seeing him,” is all Rodriguez said of Willis’ part in his MTV interview, but he had more to say about Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character. “[Gordon-Levitt] plays a gambler, a very cocky gambler, who comes in and tries to beat the biggest villain in Sin City at his own game. The story’s called ‘The Long, Bad Night’. He beats the wrong guy in a game and bad stuff happens to him.”

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is slated for release later this year.