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Find Out What The Prisoner Remake Is About
This morning's spoilers include a bunch of new and somewhat cryptic details about AMC's remake of the British spy-village show The Prisoner, starring Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen. Also, Jim Gordon actor Gary Oldman spilled a ton of new Dark Knight spoilers, and there are a few new bits of info about The Spirit, Transformers 2, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Watchmen. We find out exactly when "all will be revealed" in Battlestar Galactica, and glean some new info on Smallville, Eureka, Lost, Fringe and Dr. Horrible. Also, a zingy new one-minute Heroes promo. Embrace the spoilers! More »
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Remix The Moaning Ladies Of The Spirit
Scariest movie marketing ever: Frank Miller brings together his gaggle of gals from The Spirit and has each of them give a little soundbite when you mouse over her poster. Eva Mendes, Scarlett Johansson, Jaime King and Sarah Paulson lay the verbal cheesecake on thick, moaning and purring a sexy innuendo or pick-up line. I have an awful mental image of Miller in the darkened sound booth demanding the girls to sound more seductive. This piece of marketing trash is just begging for a "Justify My Love"-esque Madonna-style remix and we here at io9 want you to come up with it. Click through for more contest details. More »
Keeping The Spirit On The Analog Tip
Add The Spirit to the list of new and recent movies keeping CGI in its place. In his latest blog entry, The Spirit director Frank Miller says CGI master Stu Maschwitz taught him that CGI can't substitute for human actors and dramatic realism. "CGI people aren't people. They're constructs," Miller insists. "Even when I wanted to go for an impossible, across-the-city camera move, [Maschwitz] balked, saying it would 'look digital.'" So The Spirit will have "abundant" CGI that "you will find elegant... or invisible," says Miller. [Comic Book Movie]
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Yet Another Tacky Resurrection On Heroes?
Either Michael Bay isn't doing that great a job of keeping spoiler-loving fans away from the filming of Transformers 2 — or he's going to extreme lengths to stage fake shooting for the benefit of fans. Read our latest set reports (with pics) and decide for yourself. You can also decide for yourself whether two mega-spoilery Doctor Who photos are real. And also, it's up to you whether you believe two actors when they spill some wacky details about Heroes season three. But you have no choice but to believe our revelations about The Spirit, G.I. Joe, Wall-E and Babylon A.D., because they come with photographic proof. And you can verify our spoilers for The Middleman, by watching tonight's debut episode. As Reagan would say, it's all about "Trust but verify" in spoiler-land. More »
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Eva Mendes gets cheeky, suckin' on some diamonds as Frank Miller's Sand Saref in the new Spirit poster. View the full poster and more details on this character after the jump. And the answer to your question Eva is: No, you look ridiculous.
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How To Make A Sexy Jewel Thief Look Stupid
Eva Mendes gets cheeky, suckin' on some diamonds as Frank Miller's Sand Saref in the new Spirit poster. View the full poster and more details on this character after the jump. And the answer to your question Eva is: No, you look ridiculous.
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The Spirit Will Not Be Sin City 2
Frank Miller's movie adaptation of Eisner's classic comic, The Spirit won't be a clone of his noir-gasm comic and movie Sin City, despite that black-and-white-and-red trailer we showed a while back. Miller, who's directing the new movie, insists in a new blog entry that The Spirit "only resembles Sin City in that I am its director, and, well, yes, I have my ways and my proclivities. Luckily, I was able to discern three important proclivities I share with the Master. We both love good stories. We both love New York City. And we both love beautiful women." But the actual movie will be in full color — although the Spirit's trademark blue suit will be black, because the blue version just looked too campy on screen. [Geeks Of Doom]
Frank Miller's movie adaptation of Eisner's classic comic, The Spirit won't be a clone of his noir-gasm comic and movie Sin City, despite that black-and-white-and-red trailer we showed a while back. Miller, who's directing the new movie, insists in a new blog entry that The Spirit "only resembles Sin City in that I am its director, and, well, yes, I have my ways and my proclivities. Luckily, I was able to discern three important proclivities I share with the Master. We both love good stories. We both love New York City. And we both love beautiful women." But the actual movie will be in full color — although the Spirit's trademark blue suit will be black, because the blue version just looked too campy on screen. [Geeks Of Doom]
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Scary New Look At The Spirit's Octopus
Samuel L. Jackson graces the cover of Comic-Con Magazine as The Spirit's Octopus. Good to see he's sporting the signature gloves, we'll have to let director Frank Miller do the explaining for the fur coat. Jackson, a self proclaimed comic fan, actually brought books for Frank Miller to sign while filming The Spirit according to the cast at New York City's Comic-Con. Full picture, plus all of the Octopus' weirdest secrets (with minor spoilers), after the jump. More »
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Best Of io9's New York Comic-Con Coverage
What did we learn at New York Comic-Con? So many deep and important lessons... like the fact that Marvel Comics' invasion of shape-shifting green alien Skrulls goes even further than we thought, engulfing even figures from Norse mythology and Peter Parker's Aunt May. We found out that our television idols can grow and change along with us — and even X-Files' Mulder and Scully can learn SMS slang. (I know, stfu!) We found out that even alien super-cops like the Green Lantern Corps. should maybe stay away from a place called Sector 666. More lessons from NYCC in our complete round-up, under the jump. More »
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"The Spirit" Teaser Gives Just A Taste Of The Goods
Here's the teaser for The Spirit, Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's comic book, which screened at New York Comic-Con. Even the few moments of footage managed to captivate the entire audience, from the ringing phone and the cat-strewn floor to the rooftop acrobatics and the typically Miller-esque monologue. More on the Spirit panel after the jump. More »
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The Spirit of '50s Sci Fi Returns to Comics
Over at Newsarama, DC Comics head honcho Paul Levitz writes about celebrating the completion of The Spirit Archives, a series of hardcover collections of Will Eisner's newspaper comic strip from the '40s and '50s. While he and other DC employees are champagne toasting because the 24 volume series reached completion, we here at io9 have an even better reason to celebrate the 24th volume: It's the one where Eisner's pulp crimefighter goes to space. More »
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For the past couple of weeks, unauthorized, unofficial images of the main characters from Frank Miller's new flick The Spirit have been circulating online. The interest has been so intense that Lionsgate finally caved in to fan demand and released two CGI-treated images of the bad guys — Silken Floss, the evil secretary played by Scarlett Johansson (above), and The Octopus played by Samuel L. Jackson (below) — so we could see what they'll really look like in the movie.
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First Official Look at Bad Guys of "The Spirit"
For the past couple of weeks, unauthorized, unofficial images of the main characters from Frank Miller's new flick The Spirit have been circulating online. The interest has been so intense that Lionsgate finally caved in to fan demand and released two CGI-treated images of the bad guys — Silken Floss, the evil secretary played by Scarlett Johansson (above), and The Octopus played by Samuel L. Jackson (below) — so we could see what they'll really look like in the movie.
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Who's Marked For Death On Lost?
Welcome back to the morning spoiler zone. One Lost star has made some dire predictions about the life expectancy of his/her character. We've dredged up new details about Iron Man and Batman: The Dark Knight. Some new photos could hint at a major plot twist in X-Files 2, and another set of photos shows off the villains from December's Doctor Who Christmas special. And there are also some new hints about Heroes season three. The spoilers begin right here. More »
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Frank Miller, the comic book auteur behind Dark Knight and Sin City, is directing his first film — an adaptation of 1940s newspaper comic The Spirit. Originally written by Will Eisner, the story features a detective dubbed the Spirit after he awakens from a state of suspended animation caused by a supervillain's experiments. Miller will be re-imagining Eisner's work, and you can see his fingerprints all over this design for the character of an evil secretary called Silken Floss, played by Scarlett Johansson.
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First Peek at Evil Secretary Silken Floss from Frank Miller's "The Spirit"
Frank Miller, the comic book auteur behind Dark Knight and Sin City, is directing his first film — an adaptation of 1940s newspaper comic The Spirit. Originally written by Will Eisner, the story features a detective dubbed the Spirit after he awakens from a state of suspended animation caused by a supervillain's experiments. Miller will be re-imagining Eisner's work, and you can see his fingerprints all over this design for the character of an evil secretary called Silken Floss, played by Scarlett Johansson.
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The Triumphant Journeys of Martian Robots
Since 1960 we've been attempting to explore the red planet, and along the way there have been countless failures and lost spacecraft that attest to just how hard it is to fly those 35 million miles from here to there. However, there have also been success stories, like the twin rovers Opportunity and Spirit, who have both overcome mechanical problems, braved dust storms, and sent back enormous amounts of data. Today, after being threatened with a shutdown due to budget cuts, the Martian rovers got a reprieve. They'll be rolling along for many months to come. To celebrate, check out our list of Martian robots and landers who have already served their robotic duty as our slaves, erm we mean allies, on the red planet. More »
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The brave, unflagging Mars rover Spirit, who has lived on the Red Planet for almost four years, has been given a death sentence by the U.S. government. Right now, the little robot is resting on a sunny slope, waiting out the winter and preparing to do more tests on the Martian atmosphere. But now it looks like Spirit has rolled on its six wheels and done science experiments for the very last time. The U.S. government has forced NASA, this country's national space agency, to cut its budget by 4 million dollars. And that means only one rover, Opportunity, will survive. To say that this is a tragedy is an understatement.
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Spirit, the Mars Rover, Left to Die Before Its Time
The brave, unflagging Mars rover Spirit, who has lived on the Red Planet for almost four years, has been given a death sentence by the U.S. government. Right now, the little robot is resting on a sunny slope, waiting out the winter and preparing to do more tests on the Martian atmosphere. But now it looks like Spirit has rolled on its six wheels and done science experiments for the very last time. The U.S. government has forced NASA, this country's national space agency, to cut its budget by 4 million dollars. And that means only one rover, Opportunity, will survive. To say that this is a tragedy is an understatement.
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Definitely one of the coolest symposia at AAAS was the one this afternoon devoted to the Martian rovers — past, present, and future. On the panel were NASA's Richard Cook, who helped design Spirit and Opportunity as well as the next Martian rover; Steven Squyres, a Cornell geologist who has been working with Spirit and Opportunity to get as many geological samples as he can while the rovers survive; and Andrew Knoll, a Harvard planetologist who has studied the evidence for Martian water extensively (including whether it could support life as we know it). I've got highlights from the panel below, plus a giant gallery of pictures of a life-sized model of the new rover, the Mars Science Lab Rover (MSL), which will be blasting off late next year and landing on the red planet in 2010.
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Looking for Life on Mars with the Next Generation Rover
Definitely one of the coolest symposia at AAAS was the one this afternoon devoted to the Martian rovers — past, present, and future. On the panel were NASA's Richard Cook, who helped design Spirit and Opportunity as well as the next Martian rover; Steven Squyres, a Cornell geologist who has been working with Spirit and Opportunity to get as many geological samples as he can while the rovers survive; and Andrew Knoll, a Harvard planetologist who has studied the evidence for Martian water extensively (including whether it could support life as we know it). I've got highlights from the panel below, plus a giant gallery of pictures of a life-sized model of the new rover, the Mars Science Lab Rover (MSL), which will be blasting off late next year and landing on the red planet in 2010.
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