Topic: Frank Miller's Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT (Read 1967 times)

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Frank Miller's directorial debut is in a film based off his friends hit comic series, THE SPIRIT. It's excepted to arrive this January with a shitload of money to be made. Apparently Miller has been set to direct two sequels also.

Teaser just came out, it looks surprisingly fantastic.

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1585694&vid=225572
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I can't watch that teaser in this country so I'm going to assume it's this one:


Looks cool.
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No it's this one;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEv7z9GeHdk
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.
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god never mind that looks awful.

hey you know what? let's make fucking SIN CITY ALL OVER AGAIN.

also the Spirit is blue not black and white fuuuuck goddammit now I'm sad.
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Cool trailer but didn't they already release Sin City?
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This is kinda like a warm up for sin city 2....then 3. maybe Frank will think about The Spirit 2 & 3 after he gets them all out of the way
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What are they going to do about Ebony White, I wonder?

(my vote is for Martin Lawrence)
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It has been confirmed by writer-director Frank Miller that Ebony White is to be excluded from his upcoming motion picture adaptation of Will Eisner's series.[1]

you could read your own link pal.

although this confirms my dislike of the movie, since Ebony is my fav.
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As soon as I saw "LIONSGATE" I knew it wouldn't be good.

It's good to know that Miller's directing is just as one-dimentional as his comic book writing.
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this uh, this looks okay i suppose, although i could see that filter he seems to apply to every single one of his movies getting kind of old.  it LOOKS identical to sin city, which is alarming, because reading the wiki entry for the spirit, it's absolutely nothing like the sin city comic books, and miller just seems to have appropriated the characters/setting and turned it into a sin city clone, from the trailer.  fuck that!

you know who should get his own [non-frank ][/non-frank] movie?  THE QUESTION.  there're too many gay superhero movies and not enough crime fighter/detective ones.  that guy is awesome, and if they made a decently faithful movie adaptation of his comic series, i'd be pretty excited!
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the spirit is this lighthearted comic as of late and pretty good and I am pretty disappointed in this because it's just like miller's raymond chandler ripoff stuff.

the question is ridiculously right wing though so he probably won't get his own movie.

that and he died a year ago and was replaced by a woman and no one will make a woman hero. although GOD that would be awesome, just this badass chick beating the shit out of people with no face.
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was it right wing?  i only read a handful of issues, but i never got that impression.  it seems kind of absurd!  was this like something that marked the series throughout its lifespan, or just parts of it?

also i forgot he died; i think i thought he just stopped being the question or something.  i remember now, though, because the chick that replaced him was that cool policewoman/detective that originated from the batman cartoon.  it's kind of a cool crossover, i guess.
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Now I've never read The Spirit (although I've always wanted to), but that is certainly not how I imagined it would be. Either way, I hope some of Bobert Rodriguez rubbed off on him.
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I would not really consider Objectivism "right-wing". Rorschach from Watchmen, who was directly based off of him, is, though.
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you know who should get his own [non-frank miller directed] movie?  THE QUESTION.  there're too many gay superhero movies and not enough crime fighter/detective ones.  that guy is awesome, and if they made a decently faithful movie adaptation of his comic series, i'd be pretty excited!

Man, you've just read my mind.
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I don't even know how to comment on this.  The Spirit originally had a lot of mixed styles and dipped in comedy, horror, and detective shit but this just looks... ugh, it looks like Sin City THE DELETED SCENES for Christ's sake.  I'm pretty sure it's the producer who determines aesthetic choices but Miller could've atleast thrown his weight around and said "look, this totally betrays whores the style of the comics and whores characters and WHORES WHORES WHORES WHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORES."

Miller should also needs to make his television directoral debut by shooting Dropsie Avenue mini series.  Television could use more Jews and photo negative computer filters.
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If Sin City never existed I would have thought that this looked pretty cool but holy cow I can't see the difference.
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I would not really consider Objectivism "right-wing".

a bunch of selfish people obsessed with cutting the government down to nothing while claiming anyone who isn't born rich should just bootstrap their way out and are obsessed with property relations and capitalism and you think it's NOT rightwing? are you out of your mind?

and also in DKSA, he's used as the foil to the Green Arrow, who is the dirty liberal.

god I hate Frank Miller and I hope this silences everyone who says OH ITS ALL OVER THE TOP PARODY.
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Miller is directing a film that looks exactly like everything he does. I am totally suprised of this.