Movie aficionados who have seen the movies by Frank Miller will surely be familiar with how "The Spirit" looks and feels. When I first saw its trailer I thought "Dang! Sin City 2?", which I later found out that "The Spirit" movie is a completely different title and was based on a action-adventure-romance humor classic 1940 comics by writer-artist Will Eisner.
So who, what, when, and how is "The Spirit"?
"The Spirit" is a fictitious American comic book super hero character popularized and created by writer-artist Will Eisner in 1940 on a Sunday-newspaper. It follows the chronicles of a former-detective Dan Colt now turned anonymous crime fighter known only with the name of The Spirit, a masked crime-fighter usually seen wearing a small domino mask, blue business suit, fedora hat, gloves, and his signature red necktie for his costume.
photo from Forbidden Planet
photo from Forbidden Planet
Here is the preview trailer of "The Spirit" this Christmas of 2008
Trailer 1
Trailer 2
"My city. I can not deny her. My city screams. She is my mother. She is my lover... and I am her spirit."
Poster from AICN
Official Website:
(For more interactive in-depth promotion of the Movie)
"The Spirit" - My City Screams
Resources
"The Spirit" (comics) on Wikipedia
"The Spirit" (film) on Wikipideia
Directed by
Frank Miller
Produced by
Michael Uslan
Written by
Will Eisner
Screenplay
Frank Miller
Starring
Gabriel Macht
Samuel L. Jackson
Scarlett Johansson
Eva Mendes