If you don’t have your contacts in, let me type you out the taglines from these three new posters for Frank Miller’s Will Eisner’s The Spirit. “My City Screams. She Is My Lover. And I Am Her Spirit.” I’d post the high-res versions but Superhero Hype said they’d put my little hands in a blender! Frank Miller continues to territorially piss all over red, white and black in Hollywood and that’s fine and dandy with me. Aligning his film in mainstream moviegoers’ minds with Sin City is in the best interest of the lesser known comic book adaptation, and builds up the “what is that for?”’s way ahead of its release in January ‘09.
Discuss: What do you think of the art above? Does The Spirit’s tie secretly want to be a scarf?
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Frank Millers art style perfectly captured. That guy can do no wrong with black & white with soem red thrown in.
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
The first person to make these into a wallpaper gets my eternal gratitude :P
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
As much as I appreciate Frank Miller and his work, I don’t believe that his take on THE SPIRIT isn’t remaining 100% true to Will Eisner; at least from what I’ve seen so-far. Everything from the first black & white poster, these newly released posters, to how the movie is being filmed; none of it feels very SPIRIT-like to me.
Anyone having read the original Eisner stuff, and even the current Darwyn Cook DC series, THE SPIRIT is a lot more colorful and vibrant. I hate to say Warren Beatty’s DICK TRACY style; but SPIRIT is much closer to that, than anything Miller seems to be doing so far.
Much like the stories and characters of THE SPIRIT; not only should the marketing feel old school, but if it were me, I would have been shooting this sucker on a back-lot, filled with sets and props; not on a stage with a the blue (or is it green) screen style of filmmaking.
Call me old fashioned, but Frank Miller, as much as he and Eisner were friends and the appreciation he carries out for him, I don’t think Miller was the right choice for this project. Give me someone like Frank Darabont instead.
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I love the Sin City style and it worked so well for that film but do we really need to see it used again in something that isn’t a sequel?
Frank Miller has demonstrated that he is great at making stylized films and he can do it without repeating himself (300 and Sin City are both highly stylized yet both look very different).
I just don’t know if I could watch another film that looks exactly like Sin City. It was great the first time but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
I could easily confuse this for an add campaign for Sin City 2 if it wasn’t for the fact I’m wise to comic books.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:01 pm
shinobi?
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
You guys are extrapolating a lot from the style of a poster. I’m under the impression that this will be nothing like Sin City.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:04 am
I think Cplus is right. Miller’s never said anything about the look of the film nor has anyone hinted of is visual style.
Unless I missed a report? But I never heard that this was going to “look” like Sin City.
June 15th, 2008 at 8:01 am
I believe Miller stated that the film is going to be in color.