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WILL EISNER'S THE SPIRIT - PREVIEW
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Will Eisner's The Spirit (2008)
Starring: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva
Mendes, Sarah Paulson, Paz Vega, Jamie King, Dan Lauria, Stana Katic,
Johnny Simmons, Louis Lombardi
Directed by: Frank Miller
U.S.
Opening Date: December 25th, 2008
THEY SAY
Adapted from the legendary comic strip, The Spirit
is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister Frank Miller
(creator of 300 and Sin City). It is the story of a former
rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as the Spirit (Gabriel
Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy,
the Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) has a different mission: he's going to
wipe out Spirit's beloved city as he pursues his own version of
immortality. The Spirit tracks this cold-hearted killer from Central
City's rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept
waterfront ... all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either
want to seduce, love or kill our masked crusader. Surrounding him at every
turn are Ellen Dolan (Sarah Paulson), the whip-smart girl-next-door;
Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson), a punk secretary and frigid vixen;
Plaster Of Paris (Paz Vega), a murderous French nightclub dancer; Lorelei
(Jaime King), a phantom siren; and Morgenstern (Stana Katic), a sexy young
cop. Then of course, there's Sand Saref (Eva Mendes), the jewel thief with
dangerous curves. She's the love of his life turned bad. Will he save her
or will she kill him?
WE SAY
Thus far there has been little hype or fanboy
anticipation for this movie.
Why? Maybe because it all comes across as a camp remake
of Sin City, but with a masked superhero that returns from the dead
in it this time round. So is it a case of “been there, done that”? Only
time will tell, but the last movie of which movie-goers were unsure what
to make of was Speed Racer, which
ultimately underperformed at the box office. Maybe audiences are expecting
yet another case of overblown stylistic excess – who knows?
(It also doesn’t help that The Spirit is a
rather obscure comic book character – not quite Batman.)
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