The Spirit (Frank Miller, 2008)

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Antoine Doinel · #1 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:17 am

The film now has a release date and a website.

Fletch F. Fletch · #2 Post by **Fletch F. Fletch** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:13 pm

Here's a decent collection of articles on how the film's progressing.

Antoine Doinel · #3 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:04 am

Teaser posters.

MilkManX · #4 Post by **MilkManX** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:42 pm

I love Frank Miller and Will Eisner but I really hope Miller does the Spirit in vein of the Spirit comics and not like the SIN CITY comics.

Antoine Doinel · #5 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:02 pm

MilkManX wrote:I love Frank Miller and Will Eisner but I really hope Miller does the Spirit in vein of the Spirit comics and not like the SIN CITY comics.

You might be disappointed upon seeing this.

Jean-Luc Garbo · #6 Post by **Jean-Luc Garbo** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:02 pm

#-o Miller!

#7 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:05 pm

Antoine Doinel wrote:
MilkManX wrote:I love Frank Miller and Will Eisner but I really hope Miller does the Spirit in vein of the Spirit comics and not like the SIN CITY comics.
You might be disappointed upon seeing this.

Invite every commenter on that entry to board here

pianocrash · #8 Post by **pianocrash** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:25 pm

They have the best avatars I've ever seen. Oh, ScarJo!

Fletch F. Fletch · #9 Post by **Fletch F. Fletch** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:39 pm

Antoine Doinel wrote:
MilkManX wrote:I love Frank Miller and Will Eisner but I really hope Miller does the Spirit in vein of the Spirit comics and not like the SIN CITY comics.
You might be disappointed upon seeing this.

holy crap, that last pic of Sam Jackson looks like a friggin' riff on Miller's Hard-Boiled graphic novel with Geof Darrow!

MilkManX · #10 Post by **MilkManX** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:49 pm

OK. Its definatley a mix of the 2 artists but at least the guy playing the Spirit himself looks like the classic version.

Antoine Doinel · #11 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:33 am

Test photos of ScarJo as a sexy nurse.

Fletch F. Fletch · Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:22 pm

In response to the leak of all those green-screen photos, Lionsgate has released two official "fully rendered stills":

s.j. bagley · #13 Post by **s.j. bagley** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:10 am

it's a shame, really.
i love the character of the spirit, and think that eisner was one of the best writers and artists in the history of comics... but miller's just a raving jackass, at this point and i can't bring myself to have even the tiniest hope of this being in any way a good movie at all, let alone a good 'the spirit' movie.

#14 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:54 am

Teaser trailer

Antoine Doinel · #15 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:57 am

Another character poster.

Cde. · #16 Post by **Cde.** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:22 pm

Sin City 2: The Spirit

That dialogue was unbearable.

Fletch F. Fletch · Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:28 pm

And what about the music ripped right from The Untouchables?!

filmnoir1 · #18 Post by **filmnoir1** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:44 pm

This will be probably just as bad and hackneyed as Sin City was when it was released. The problem with all these films is that they rely too much on flash to create a sense of the world and this oftentimes surpasses the narrative itself. It also looks like 300 which was a visual set-back rather than a visual revolution.
Finally one needs to ask how is it that Miller gets handed the reins to such an important American cultural item. Too bad for Eisner, because The Spirit like Dick Tracy is as important to American comics and the crime genre.

Jean-Luc Garbo · #19 Post by **Jean-Luc Garbo** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:18 pm

filmnoir1 wrote:Finally one needs to ask how is it that Miller gets handed the reins to such an important American cultural item.

He and Eisner were friends. See Dark Horse's Eisner/Miller book for more. I like both artists, but I'm still disappointed by how this film looks now.

Antoine Doinel · #20 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:21 am

Yet another poster.

reaky · #21 Post by **reaky** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:05 pm

I believe Eisner maintained that the roots of the Spirit were in O. Henry. The roots of Miller's work seem increasingly to be in "Whoa. Cool". It's such a shame. His Daredevil work was revolutionary, and alive to humanity, but his writing seems to have ossified into implacable bozo hard-boiled. And as for Batman Vs Al-Qaida...words fail me.

Fletch F. Fletch · Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:19 pm

Entertainment Weekly has a Q&A with Miller.

kaujot · #23 Post by **kaujot** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:39 pm

Trailer.

It looks EXACTLY like Sin City.

Foulard · #24 Post by **Foulard** » Tue May 06, 2008 11:28 pm

"My city screams. She is my mother--she is my lover."? Bleah...I can't imagine Will Eisner ever writing anything as corny or humorless as that..

reaky · #25 Post by **reaky** » Wed May 07, 2008 5:14 pm

Agreed. I want to add that Darwyn Cooke got the mood exactly right in his DC series.

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