Any hopes that Frank Miller is actually making The Spirit and not Sin City 2 are steadily diminishing. The trailer, coming next weekend, could still prove that Miller’s movie will be more true to Eisner than it currently appears, but for now we’ve only got the posters and two new production stills.
Well. They’re not production stills, are they? We saw those last week when a load of set photos leaked onto the internet. I understand why Lionsgate was upset about those shots. They didn’t represent at all what the finished product would look like. And if that’s really Sam Jackson’s hat, they better not.
Notice, then, the two official shots at IGN. Sam Jackson. No hat. And Scarlett looks a lot more like a sexy, threatening domme than a dowdy librarian out for an evening at the goth club. (It’s a thin line, I know.) But these shots…so moody. So Sin City.
This trailer needs to be better than Robocop 2.
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Jesus Christ. For the very first time, I'm very glad to be dead.
Somebody get this mutherf^ckin Spirit on the mutherf^ckin screen!
"Does…Will Eisner…look…like…a…bitch? Then why ya tryin' to fuck 'im like one, Frank?"
Nothing is better than Robocop 2.
Is this movie going to be in black and white or not? I'd assumed it was going to be. I guess I should read the production blog…
RoboCop 2 might be ridiculous and silly and not the first one, but it's a guilty pleasure that's quite watchable. I love the overdone mean spirit, and Tom Noonan makes a great villain. At least Weller and an R rating were included. And the scene with the sociopath little league team and the Knowing is Half the Battle-like speech Robo gives to them is like one of those segments on crack, and very funny.
"Bad words make for bad feelings."
I knew this movie was fucked the second I saw FM's teaser poster turning The Spirit into Marv With A Hat.
Is Sam Jackson trying to be in every movie? Does the man sleep/eat/watch tv?
CAIN
CAIN IS BUGGING ME
Samuel L. Jackson IS in every movie. If you get out your camcorder and start shooting footage of the wall, Sam'll show up when you replay it…
I get the feeling this will be a lot like Robocop 2, only more bizzare. It seems Frank has taken a lot of Eisener's more comic ideas and then added his own sense of overcompensating grit. It's going to be like watching Hudson Hawk in the middle of Batman Begins with more misogyny and less plot.
Lets at least wait for the trailer before we start badmouthing – I think Miller will get it right.
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