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"The movie will be adapted and directed by Miller, with Odd Lot Entertainment’s Deborah Del Prete and Gigi Pritzker co-financing and producing. Also producing is Batfilm Productions' Michael Uslan. Batfilm's co-founder, Benjamin Melniker, will executive produce along with Steven Maier. Odd Lot's Linda McDonough and Batfilm's F.J. DeSanto will co-produce. Uslan said Miller was the ideal choice for the project. 'What makes Frank's involvement with "The Spirit" particularly poignant was his special relationship with Will Eisner, captured in the book Eisner/Miller,' he said. 'You have two of the medium's greatest storytellers of sequential art and cinematic comics discussing the compelling and controversial art form.' 'I intend to be extremely faithful to the heart and soul of the material, but it won't be nostalgic. It will be much scarier than people expect,' Miller told Variety. Shooting commenced in October, 2007 for January 16, 2009 release."

http://www.willeisner.com/spirit/spirit_movie.html

http://www.lionsgate.com/thespirit/

http://imdb.com/title/tt0831887/



Looks interesting.

2/7/2008 3:19:15 AM

ttt

6/14/2008 11:53:33 PM

hhhm.....

6/15/2008 12:07:24 AM

6/15/2008 12:11:21 AM

hopefully it's not shot for shot from the book

because that's what ruined sin city

6/15/2008 12:45:43 AM

OH WE BACK!!!1

6/15/2008 1:28:35 AM

I'm really looking forward to this. For me it's "The Spirit" and "Punisher: War Zone" this December. I don't think I've ever been so excited to see two movies in December before.

6/23/2008 11:19:26 PM

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"hopefully it's not shot for shot from the book because that's what ruined sin city "

I was not aware that Sin City was ruined. How did making it mostly shot for shot ruin it?

From the trailer it looks like it's in the same style as Sin City, maybe a bit more surreal. I'm excited to see it.

6/24/2008 12:05:39 AM

this was released a few weeks ago...

http://www.cinematical.com/2008/05/31/frank-miller-promises-the-spirit-wont-be-a-return-to-sin-cit/

6/24/2008 10:34:27 AM

Couple trailers ...
http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/thespirit/
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/articles/4842.asp

7/18/2008 10:45:41 PM

hopefully it's infinitely more eisner than miller

7/18/2008 11:34:14 PM

that's been my concern ...

7/18/2008 11:38:03 PM

Don't count on it. Screenplay by Frank Miller.

It would be different if he put his name on something, got paid, and was never allowed near it.

7/19/2008 10:13:23 AM

yeah.

yeah.

the more i think about sin city, the more i know miller/rodriguez completely missed the point...and the full trailer doesn't make me feel any better about this

7/19/2008 10:13:32 AM

everytime i tried to read the comic i got bored with it and never finished

7/19/2008 11:40:56 AM

^^ how can you miss the point on something that you wrote?

7/19/2008 11:52:42 AM

So I've talked to a whole buttload of people who are absolutely flummoxed by the trailer for The Spirit. Does anyone know anything about the comics? What's the deal with the hypersexualized presentation?

7/20/2008 5:26:37 PM

the spirit had a ton of femme fatales and so far that's what they seem to be playing up because boobies put horndogs in seats

some of the women in the spirit were some of the earliest empowered female characters in the genre

i'm sure miller will make sure to reduce them all to whores as his more recent work suggests

he seems to have gone ultra sour in the past couple years (maybe due to his divorce to lynn varley...who knows) and borders on woman-hating

[Edited on July 20, 2008 at 9:10 PM. Reason : +]

7/20/2008 8:52:01 PM

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"how can you miss the point on something that you wrote?"

Frank Miller does beautiful work in stills, and utilizes all the opportunities afforded him by the comic format to the fullest extent possible. His work in graphic novels is brilliant.

But he's not a filmmaker.

As such, the Sin City film feels very stilted. In theory, going shot-for-shot from the visually stunning book is a great idea, but the way the book translates motion and action doesn't quite work in film, and it shows. The scenes without a lot of action or motion, the slow, brooding scenes of thought and dialogue, are great. The scenes where action is depicted with the same flourishes that made the comic feel alive make the film feel dead. The only fast-moving scene in the film with any vitality is the one that wasn't directed by Rodriguez and Miller.

^ The Superchix in DK2.

7/20/2008 9:14:51 PM

I grew up reading my dad's copies of "The Spirit". This does not feel anything like it.

I saw the teaser and got my hopes up. Just saw the theatrical trailer and all I can think is "Sin City". Graphics look awesome, but I also never read "Sin City".

This is a different case; and I feel let down.

7/21/2008 6:28:38 PM

Some new photos of The Spirit's ladies:

http://www.superherohype.com/news/spiritnews.php?id=7496

7/22/2008 12:38:13 AM

killer poster

7/29/2008 10:41:02 PM

^ Ooo--that's cool-looking! Good post!

7/30/2008 5:21:49 AM

i always like it when a poster can take something familiar and twist it just enough to make it apply

good times

7/30/2008 6:48:32 PM

ttt

12/8/2008 1:07:59 PM

I can't take Samuel L seriously anymore.

12/8/2008 1:14:52 PM

Haven't seen mutton chops that sweet since Pulp Fiction.

12/8/2008 2:15:28 PM

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"The only fast-moving scene in the film with any vitality is the one that wasn't directed by Rodriguez and Miller."

I *really* hope you aren't refering to the Tarantino scene with the guy talking to the dead body in the car. That was the worst scene in the entire movie.

12/8/2008 3:31:20 PM

^ That's precisely the one I was referring to, and it's the only one that feels like a film instead of an exercise in style.

12/8/2008 4:03:55 PM

I really want to see this movie.

12/8/2008 8:27:38 PM

There's a six-page rant on AICN today proclaiming this the worst movie ever made.

12/15/2008 7:21:49 PM

well at least they're not exaggerating or anything

12/15/2008 7:39:15 PM

Basically says that the acting is horrendous outside of Eva Mendes and that while it's not Frank Miller's fault that he has no business directing a film, he still has no business directing a film (which, incidentally, is what I said earlier).

rant here: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39450

and six scenes here: http://www.blackfilm.com/20081211/features/thespiritspecial.shtml

12/15/2008 7:44:26 PM

obligatory:

12/15/2008 10:28:53 PM

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"The real Main Offender here is the company that thought this was good. Thought this was worthy of your twelve bucks. Because they, my friends, are assholes. That’s all it comes down to. They MUST know that this movie is a piece of shit...I mean, it is so bad they literally HAVE to know how bad it is, no matter how cynical you are about the intelligence level of Hollywood producers. Which means that they think so little of the movie-going public that they’ll drop this bomb on us and just expect us to go see it “‘cause it looks like Sin City.” "

Punisher, now this

Lots of worthless shit in the theatres people

[Edited on December 15, 2008 at 10:41 PM. Reason : das]

12/15/2008 10:40:20 PM

even though it was funny, that review makes me sad.

12/16/2008 12:51:39 AM

no surprises here, always looked incredibly shitty

12/16/2008 12:56:27 AM

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"(which, incidentally, is what I said earlier)."

YOU ARE SO WISE, AND ARE THE ONLY PERSON TO HAVE SEEN THIS COMING.

12/16/2008 4:29:32 AM

it was pretty shitty source material to begin with

i mean, you can only polish a turd so much

12/16/2008 7:45:00 AM

When I first saw previews for this, I got it confused with The Shadow. Unfortunately there will be no clouding of men's minds, so I probably won't be seeing it.

12/16/2008 10:34:38 AM

An actual AICN contributor, rather than a reader, has a similar response today:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39470

Anyway, I know I'm not the only one to say that Frank Miller has no business directing a film, but I thought Sin City was mostly a bore because the idea of going shot-for-shot from a static medium to a moving one is fundamentally flawed and everyone yelled at me...so I'm chirping more about this.

12/16/2008 1:25:46 PM

i wouldn't have yelled at you if I were here when that came out, fwiw

12/16/2008 10:34:22 PM

Man I swear to god if they fuck up ronin, then I'm going to flip shit.

12/18/2008 7:26:44 PM

I think Ronin is too ethereal to make into a movie, but I thought that about Slaughterhouse-Five, too.

12/18/2008 7:28:14 PM

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" i mean, you can only polish a turd so much "

Mythbusters proved you can polish a turd......fyi

12/18/2008 9:50:53 PM

I just saw this movie. I really loved it. There is such variety in it that made me fall in love with it minute by minute. A lot of REALLY good looking women and Gabriel Macht is a stone cold fox.
Scarlett Johansson actually did a phenomenal job in it. She got a chance to break away from her regular whiny lifeless character.

I would recommend you going to see it.

1/1/2009 11:34:24 PM

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"Scarlett Johansson actually did a phenomenal job in it."

That seals it, I'm going tomorrow...only because this kind of divisiveness (every critic I've seen calls it hands-down the worst performance of her career) is definitely worth eight bucks.

1/1/2009 11:43:49 PM

i thought we were being kindler and gentler?

1/2/2009 12:46:28 AM

Well I saw a movie poster for The Spirit with a guy lighting a cigar with his flamethrower, so it looks promising.

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"IM THE OCTOPUS"

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"I HAVE EIGHT OF EVERTHING"

1/2/2009 1:13:08 AM

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"Well I saw a movie poster for The Spirit with a guy lighting a cigar with his flamethrower, so it looks promising."

You mean this poster for Watchmen?


yeah ...

1/2/2009 1:14:21 PM