Though only credited as a co-director on
Sin City, apparently the powers-that-be were sufficiently impressed by the box office figures of his creations to offer him his own film to direct. Enter: Will Eisner’s The Spirit.
The Spirit is adapted from Will Eisner’s comic book series of the same name and is described as an action-adventure-romance-noir-superhero genre mash-up starring a ladies-laden cast in "timeless" mythical city, Central City. Denny Colt (Gabriel Macht) returns from the dead to fight crime as The Spirit while his arch-nemesis, The Octopus (Sam Jackson), enlists a bevy of femme fatales to wipe him from the streets of Central City once and for all.
Miller told Entertainment Weekly:
"The character has a terrifying side to him. This is a man who’s died and come back to life. So it twists into fantasy. And of course there are tons of women in it. There have to be — it’s The Spirit. They’re all in love with him, and he’s in love with all of them. You might say he’s a bit of a slut."
The Spirit is rated PG-13 for "intense sequences of stylized violence and action, some sexual content and brief nudity,” and will be released on Christmas Day 2008.
Cast
Gabriel Macht: Denny Colt / The Spirit
Samuel L. Jackson: The Octopus
Scarlett Johansson: Silken Floss
Eva Mendes: Sand Saref
Sarah Paulson: Dr. Ellen Dolan
Dan Lauria: Commissioner Dolan.
Stana Katic: Morgenstern.
Johnny Simmons: Young Denny Colt.
Louis Lombardi: Phobos
Jaime King: Lorelei Rox
Paz Vega: Plaster of Paris
Meeghan Holaway: Holly
Seychelle Gabrielle: Young Sand Saref
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