Apr 11 2008 First 'The Spirit' Photos Stop Making Sense
Lionsgate has provided some new stills from Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit, and I have to say I'm pretty excited. All the green-screening going on gave me the sense they would have a similar look to Sin City, but I had no idea the film would take place on the stage of a Talking Heads concert!
One more of a pretty girl I'm dubbing "Scar-Jo" below the cut.
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Aug 3 2007 Frank Miller Finds His Spirit
As you may have deduced from my clever headline, Frank Miller has found the star for his adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit in actor Gabriel Macht. Macht, who most recently starred in The Good Shepherd, will fight the villainous Octopus (played by Samuel L. Jackson) as the titular crimefighter who fakes his own death to fight from the shadows. Unfortunately, I'll likely miss most of these plot points when the movie finally comes out as I stare unblinking at that big obnoxious mole.
Jun 11 2007 Sam Jackson to Play Octopus in The Spirit
Sam Jackson, who did The Man, The Farce of the Penguins, a sequel to xXx that even Vin Diesel wouldn't show up for, and probably your cousin's bat mitsvah if you showed him the money, will be playing the Octopus in Frank Miller's upcoming adaptation of The Spirit. I don't know much about the Octopus, but I do hope he calls people "motherf***er".
Will Eisner’s “The Spirit” follows detective Denny Colt as he fights crime with the blessing of the city’s police force. And the Octopus? “Well, the Octopus actually created Spirit when you come down to it,” Jackson said, enthusiasm bubbling over as he began to describe the characters’ origins. “He was sort of a mad scientist who worked at a morgue. Spirit was a young cop who got killed. So when his body came in, he was working on this kind of serum that would make people sort of immortal. He tried it on [Spirit] and he came back to life, and then he tried it on himself, so he could be, you know, his nemesis and he became even stronger.”
So, to sum up, The Spirit is about sort of a mad scientist who makes kind of a serum that makes people sort of immortal. I plan on seeing it, and kind of wearing pants. Sort of.
