SuperHeroHype reports Lionsgate has launched the official website for The Spirit, the film adaptation of the Will Eisner comic, directed by Frank Miller. The site is almost barren right now save for a “Register for Updates” button. But the inclusion of Spirit artwork is meant to convey a strong message to fans of Miller’s as well as those who enjoyed Sin City, since the two are stylistically similar.
Paz Vega and Jamie King have joined the cast of Will Eisner's The Spirit, co-produced by Lionsgate and Odd Lot Entertainment.
„The Spirit“ is directed by Frank Miller (writer/co-director of Sin City and author of the graphic novel „300“) based on his own adaptation. The action-adventure centers on a man who fakes his own death and fights crime from the shadows of Central City.
Vega will play the knife-wielding Plaster of Paris, and King will portray Lorelei, a phantom siren.
The duo joins Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson, Gabriel Macht, Sarah Paulson, Dan Lauria, Stana Katic, Johnny Simmons and Louis Lombardi. Principal photography begins Monday in New Mexico.
Source: Variety
ComingSoon.net has posted a new interview with We Own the Night star Eva Mendes in which she talks about starring in Frank Miller's The Spirit. Here are a couple of clips:
CS: What about „The Spirit“? Are you Sand Sarif? Mendes: I'm Sand Sarif. I start that in just a couple weeks.
CS: Wow, so what's the preliminaries for that? Have you been reading the old comic strips? Mendes: Yeah, I have some. Frank Miller gave me some of the old comics and I'm excited because I've never actually played like the real femme fatal and this woman is just so… she'd eat you for breakfast. I know, it's kind of fun.
Sarah Paulson („Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip“) has joined the cast of Will Eisner's The Spirit, director Frank Miller's adaptation of the classic comic strip character. Also joining the cast are Dan Lauria, Stana Katic, Johnny Simmons and Louis Lombardi.
Paulson joins leading ladies Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson in the film noir about a rookie cop who returns from the dead to fight crime as the Spirit from the shadows of Central City. However, while Mendes and Johansson are playing femme fatales, Paulson is playing the hero's true love, Dr. Ellen Dolan, the police commissioner's daughter.
Gabriel Macht is on board as Denny Colt/the Spirit, and Samuel L. Jackson will play the villainous Octopus.
Lauria (ABC's mini „The Path to 9/11“) is playing the police commissioner, while Katic (Feast of Love) is a rookie cop. Simmons (Evan Almighty) plays a young Denny Colt, while Lombardi (Fox's „24“) will play Phobos, a henchman for the Octopus.
Production will begin in October in New Mexico and will be shot entirely at Albuquerque Studios. Lionsgate will release the film on January 16, 2009.
Creator Frank Miller, director Zack Snyder and historians discuss the cruel but effective manner in which Spartan children were raised to be warriors.
Short version on movies.yahoo.com
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