CBR: Cast & Crew Talk "The Spirit"

[CBR News]

Frank Miller, Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Sarah
Paulson, Eva Mendes and Dan Lauria talk about their work in "The Spirit," the
new film adaptation of Will Eisner's classic comics series.


Full article here.

[hondobrode]

but I'm scared of this movie.

I've heard it before and I tend to agree with it : This looks more like a Sin City movie than The Spirit.

I'm also not sure I like the changes he's made, but I'll see the movie and find out.

[metawar]

agreed..........and then some

[Dr. Chaos]

Obviously, Frank Miller agrees with Jackson's love for The Spirit as a character, and cites his long friendship with Denny Colt's late creator, Will Eisner. "My relationship with Will Eisner was a long and abiding one where we argued incessantly,” Miller explained. “The very first time he saw one of my pages, he told me what was wrong with it, and we kept arguing ever since. It was the classic 'Irish Catholic meets the Bronx Jew.'

"Eisner finally read [the first page of ‘Daredevil’] and he said, ‘He's lying in the back of a garbage truck, and his caption says, “I'm lying in the back of a garbage truck!” That's redundant!’ I said, ‘Well, he's blind! He has to put it together!’ He wouldn't accept that explanation, so we just got at it."

I wish Eisner was still alive to give Frank lip.

Will: The goddamn...The goddamn batman? Is your Batman high?

Frank: No, he's just crazy. He lives on the edge.

Will: Are you sure he's not mildly retarded?

Frank: What? No.

[D-ski]

Reading Miller's portion of the interview, I get the sense that this movie is an attempt at disproving all the lessons Eisner taught Miller about storytelling and character development.

Taking a dangerous, calculating, behind-the-scenes master planner like The Octopus and turning him into a gun-toting maniac who likes to play dress-up and bash toilets over the head of The Spirit is hardly sticking to the source material, or paying homage to Will Eisner and his legacy.