In this outing, Image founders head for home, wall-crawlers head back to the big screen, X-Men head back to Earth, DC’s Big Three head for trouble, the next big thing is twenty years ago, and we tackle head on one of the world’s great conundrums: Can Logan’s claws pierce Steve Rogers’ shield? Plus, a look back at Frank Miller’s opus. All this and much much more on this, as the podcast reaches the age of majority.
Here is the cover to the latest Comic-Con magazine featuring Samuel L. Jackson as the Octopus on the cover.
I know the first thing out of many commenter’s mouths will be the fact that readers never saw the face of the Octopus in The Spirit comics. As I said over a year ago, the biggest problem with seeing Jackson’s face on screen is the demand for face time. It would be so much nicer if he would have played the entire role in shadow. His voice is famous enough to let audiences know it is him.
I think Frank Miller is high on the fumes from the making of The Spirit, because he now wants to direct the film adaptation of his own Hard Boiled comic that he wrote with art by Geoff Darrow.
“I’m in love with directing,” he gushed. “I’ve found a way to expand my career. Comics and directing are really two sides of the same coin. That’s what Robert Rodriguez taught me…good drama is good drama.”
Carl Seltz is a suburban insurance investigator, a loving husband, and devoted father. Nixon is a berserk, homicidal tax collector racking up mind-boggling body counts in a diseased urban slaughterhouse. Unit Four is the ultimate robot killing machine - and the last hope of the future’s enslaved mechanical servants. And they’re all the same psychotic entity.
Warner Bros. has announced it will adapt Frank Miller’s Ronin for the big screen, but surprisingly Miller won’t be writing the adaptation. That task has been assigned to scribe Joby Harold, who most recently wrote and directed Awake staring Jessica Alba.
“Ronin,” which Miller wrote and drew in the early 1980s, centers on a masterless samurai who is reincarnated in a dystopic near-future New York populated by squatters, factions and mutants. The ronin must try to destroy a demon with a mystic sword, which also is found in New York.
Sylvain White has been hired to direct the film. There is no word if Frank Miller will be involved in the project.
Variety is reporting two very attractive actresses - Paz Vega (top) and Jamie King (bottom) - have joined the cast of The Spirit.
Vega will play the knife-wielding Plaster of Paris, and King will portray Lorelei, a phantom siren.
I always thought Will Eisner’s women dripped of sex in the pages of the comics, and it looks like Miller is surrounding himself with real life beauties for the movie.
Sunday, September 30th, 2007--by Stephen Schleicher
or - “I love you the goddamn Batman, you and your goddamn Batmobile”
The last time I reviewed All-Star Batman, it had been literally a year since the previous issue hit the stands. At the time I hated, Hated, HATED the title thinking Frank Miller had made a mockery of Batman, taken the money, and run away laughing. After a couple of months of serious contemplating, I’ve totally reversed my feelings on the goddamn Batman. Instead of being the worst title out there, I’m actually looking forward to each and every issue - even more so than what Morrison is doing on the Batman title proper. What caused the change of heart? No, it wasn’t a truck load of money from DC (although that would be nice), but rather a different perspective on what Miller is doing.
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007--by Stephen Schleicher
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sarah Paulson has signed on to Will Eisner’s The Spirit movie to be directed by Frank Miller. Paulson will play Commissioner Dolan’s daughter Dr. Ellen Dolan.
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.
Remember Paulson as Bunny Yeager in the Notorious Bettie Page? Yummy.
Coming Soon.net’s database has been updated and states Will Eisner’s The Spirit movie is slated for release on January 16, 2009.
Well this film isn’t being released during the holiday season, and isn’t slated to kick off the summer block of films. Could this odd release date mean something?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007--by Stephen Schleicher
Ghost Rider star Eva Mendes is joining the cast of Frank Miller’s The Spirit, according to Variety. Mendes will play the leading lady Sand Seref - the only girl to break The Spirit’s heart.
Gabriel Macht has been signed to play the Spirit, with Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson playing Silk N Floss and The Octopuss respectively.
The Hollywood Reporter is stating Scarlett Johansson will be playing the part of Silk N. Floss in the upcoming Spirit movie written and directed by Frank Miller.
For “Spirit,” Miller’s adaptation of the classic Eisner film noir comic strip series, Johansson is in final negotiations to play a dangerous beauty named Silk N. Floss. Eisner’s strip was known for its women with dangerous curves, and Miller is intent on keeping that tradition. Floss is a sexy and intelligent secretary with a vindictive instinct that makes her the perfect accomplice to the Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson), an evil mastermind.
This news is a bit odd, because Miller said he was adapting the Sand Saref storyline to be used in the film. From the review I wrote here, neither the Octopus, nor Silk N. Floss appear in the story. Will have to investigate further.
Frank Miller has selected Gabriel Macht to star in his adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit movie.
Macht will play the title character, a man who has faked his own death so he can battle crime from the shadows of Central City. He runs up against the Octopus, a villain who’s bent on wiping out the entire city and kills anyone unlucky enough to see his face.
Macht had to audition with all the other actors who wanted to role.
“We think Gabriel has a devilishly charming quality, and the dry wit that embodies the Spirit, and we wanted to do this with someone who can embody this character for the next few years, because we anticipate we’ll be making more than one Spirit movie,” said Lionsgate prexy of film production Mike Paseornek.
The picture will begin shooting in October, and is expected to be in theaters in 2009.
It was two o’clock. The wind outside had died down, and I knew the rain was soon to come. The rain like some harsh mistress that keeps mocking me; for the coming rain means yet another day the landscapers won’t be able to work on my sorry excuse for a yard.
The scent of whiskey still hung heavy in the air, and heavy on my breath, as I opened the tome that told the tale of Sand Saref. Sand Saref - what a dame. Word on the street is Frank Miller’s Spirit movie will be his interpretation of the Eisner comic from 1950. From Volume 20 of the DC archives, this isn’t an early story of Denny Colt, was written three years after I, The Jury debuted, and smacks of noir crime. San-Saref is a tale of murder, germ warfare, and most of all love. I’m no stool pigeon, but I thought I’d spill the beans on Sand Saref, in this Major Spoilers Retro Review.
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