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The film now has a release date and a website.

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

Teaser posters.

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.

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.

#-o Miller!

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

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

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!

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

Test photos of ScarJo as a sexy nurse.

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

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.

Another character poster.

Sin City 2: The Spirit

That dialogue was unbearable.

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

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.

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.

Yet another poster.

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.

Entertainment Weekly has a Q&A with Miller.

Trailer.

It looks EXACTLY like Sin City.

"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..

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