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Six Spirit Clips To Test Your Frank Miller Tolerance
Is The Spirit just like Sin City — actually a playfully dark thriller, and we've all just missed the good jokes? See for yourself in these six Spirit clips. More »All The Women In Frank Miller's World Are Cray Cray
MTV Scoffs At Scarjo's Spirit Demotion From Surgeon To Secretary
Why Frank Miller's Spirit Can Only Fail
I've noticed a trend: We do a post about the upcoming movie version of The Spirit, and commenters complain that we're too negative about it. Is it a ploy to bury Frank Miller's directing career, you ask? Why are we hating so much on a movie that we've not seen, and judging it on solely on the trailers and interviews and pre-release hype that we're supposed to be excited about? Well, speaking solely for myself, the reason that I'm afraid of the Spirit movie is because of why I love the Spirit comics. More »12 Splash Pages Will Convince You Frank Miller Shouldn't Adapt The Spirit
Not Even Samuel L. Jackson In Terrible Eyeliner Can Save The Spirit
Why Does My City Scream?
Just as Americans are going to the polls in November, a mass media campaign will be ramping up that depicts cities as both dangerous and wracked with torment. "My City Screams!" It could be a slogan for The Dark Knight. Or any of a host of other movies, TV shows or books. But it's actually the tagline for The Spirit, the new comic-book movie by noir master Frank Miller. We love to imagine cities as hazardous, smelly alien worlds, even as real-life U.S. cities are becoming safer and safer. Why is genre entertainment's portrayal of cities trapped in an era of tenements? More »The Spirit Trailer Tries Too Hard To Get Some
"The Spirit" Teaser Gives Just A Taste Of The Goods
The Spirit of '50s Sci Fi Returns to Comics
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. More »