An Update on The Spirit
I blogged a short while ago about noirish comic book adaptation, Will Eisner's The Spirit, written and directed by fellow comic book legend (albeit still living), Frank Miller.
Since then there have been a few other tidbits of information released online about the film, which, like the Golden Age comic, centres on a rookie cop who returns from the dead as masked hero The Spirit - to fight Central City crimelord, the Octopus and contend with an assortment of beautiful women who either want to love or kill him.
Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes and Jamie King star.
Anyway, here are some new posters of Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson as the oh-so fantastically named Sand Saref and Silken Floss respectively.
More importantly, after the debut of the film's trailer in April, which I also commented on, Frank Miller was quick to reassure fans on the official The Spirit blog that the film will not be a Sin City clone:
And THE SPIRIT as some sort of SIN CITY REDUX? No, SIN CITY, that one's my own baby, folks, and it looks the way it does for its own reasons. THE SPIRIT is, and will always be, Eisner's SPIRIT. Anybody watching me on the set could attest that I very frequently drew a storyboard for a given shot first as I saw it, then as Will might’ve seen in—and, in every case, went with what I saw as Will's version.
To drive the point home, THE SPIRIT, despite any accidental impression left by that kickass teaser-trailer, is a full-color movie. SIN CITY—and I hope to make of it a movie trilogy all its own, come Hell and high water—is, visually, a playhouse for black and white.
I really hope Miller's words prove true and that The Spirit has its own distinct cinematic identity.
The Spirit is set for a Christmas Day release in the United States. That normally means South Africans can expect it locally sometime between January and March 2009.
Since then there have been a few other tidbits of information released online about the film, which, like the Golden Age comic, centres on a rookie cop who returns from the dead as masked hero The Spirit - to fight Central City crimelord, the Octopus and contend with an assortment of beautiful women who either want to love or kill him.
Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes and Jamie King star.
Anyway, here are some new posters of Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson as the oh-so fantastically named Sand Saref and Silken Floss respectively.
More importantly, after the debut of the film's trailer in April, which I also commented on, Frank Miller was quick to reassure fans on the official The Spirit blog that the film will not be a Sin City clone:
And THE SPIRIT as some sort of SIN CITY REDUX? No, SIN CITY, that one's my own baby, folks, and it looks the way it does for its own reasons. THE SPIRIT is, and will always be, Eisner's SPIRIT. Anybody watching me on the set could attest that I very frequently drew a storyboard for a given shot first as I saw it, then as Will might’ve seen in—and, in every case, went with what I saw as Will's version.
To drive the point home, THE SPIRIT, despite any accidental impression left by that kickass teaser-trailer, is a full-color movie. SIN CITY—and I hope to make of it a movie trilogy all its own, come Hell and high water—is, visually, a playhouse for black and white.
I really hope Miller's words prove true and that The Spirit has its own distinct cinematic identity.
The Spirit is set for a Christmas Day release in the United States. That normally means South Africans can expect it locally sometime between January and March 2009.
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