The first teaser poster for the Frank Miller directed adaptation of the Will Eisner's The Spirit has appeared online. 

The Poster was passed around at the American Film Market this month as part of a treatment being used to sell the film adaptation. The poster cover, pictured to the left, is drawn by Frank Miller. Miller's treatment featured panels from the original comic strip.

The project announcement was first made at Comic-Con 2006, where Miller claimed that shooting would begin in late spring 2007.

"I intend to be extremely faithful to the heart and soul of the material, but it won't be nostalgic. It will be much scarier than people expect," said Miller.

About Frank Miller

Miller is one of the most acclaimed and influential comic book creators alive today. He made his first smash on Marvel's Daredevil before going on to create the most talked about graphic novel in history: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Miller went on to create the Sin City universe, Batman: Year One, 300 and All Star Batman and Robin. He wrote the script for RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3. But most regular people know him from Sin City which he co-directed with Robert Rodriguez.

About The Spirit

The Spirit is a masked crime-fighter, created by Will Eisner in 1940, who starred as a Sunday-newspaper comic-book insert. Using a mausoleum as his home base, he fights crime in the dark shadows of Central City, using cunning and ingenious forms of punishment.

DC Comics has reprinted much of the comic series in hardcover form (he Spirit Archives 2000-2005).

About Will Eisner

Will Eisner was an acclaimed comic artist and writer, considered by most to be one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium. The Spirit is one of his best known series. In 1988, the comics community created the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, more commonly known as "the Eisners". Think of them as the Academy Award for the comics medium.