By rss@youtube.com (JoshuatheAnarchist) So is The Spirit truly the worst superhero movie ever made? Watch my review to find out. Author: JoshuatheAnarchist Keywords: The Spirit movie review Frank Miller Will Eisner Joshua the Anarchist Added: January 3, 2009

Directed by Frank Miller and based on the comic by Will Eisner, The Spirit tells the story of a rookie cop who returns from beyond the grave to fight evil in Central City. So, for the next two weeks we'll be featuring four shorts that ...

The Spirit (also known as Will Eisner's The Spirit) is an upcoming 2008 American film adaptation based on the newspaper strip of the same name created by Will Eisner. Batfilm, OddLot, & Lionsgate are set to produce. Frank Miller wrote & directed the film, which stars Gabriel Macht...

Will Eisner is well known today for creating "The Spirit," his blue-clad superhero that received the Hollywood treatment at the hands of Frank Miller last year. But lesser known is that Eisner was a veteran of no less than three major wars: World War II (where he was an enlisted man) and Kore...

By Geoff Boucher Clearly, the Rodriguez boys were back in town. Robert Rodriguez has a "crazy, intense" script for "Predator" reboot SILLY: Charlie Brown in "Sin City"? Good grief! Frank Miller searches for "The Spirit" of Will Eisner Frank Miller: Imagine Stallone in "The Dark Knight Returns"  

By Geoff Boucher Feiffer also spoke about his archivally minded 1965 book, "The Great Comic Book Heroes": Geoff Boucher Golden Age flashback: 1940s Marvel house ads Frank Miller and the spirit of Will Eisner The Spirit" movie that could have been Fred Hembeck salutes Captain America 

 Italy The Spirit (Sony Pictures). Dal talento visionario di Frank Miller, la storia - tratta dall'omonimo fumetto di Will Eisner - di un poliziotto molto speciale (interpretato da Gabriel Macht) circondato da belle donne, molte delle quali pericolose: Eva ...

 UK However, this time the story isn't Miller's own. A sexy crime-thriller whose hero is an ex-cop turned masked vigilante called The Spirit (uncharismatic Gabriel Macht), it's drawn from a 1940s newspaper strip by Will Eisner aka 'the Orson Welles of comics'.

 CA - Tim Janson Writer on many titles including: Catwoman, Detective Comics, Gotham Central, Daredevil, Uncanny X-Men, Immortal Iron Fist. Frank Miller – Writer on Daredevil, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, 300. Winner of numerous Eisner awards for story ...

Boasting a phenomenal, all-star cast, including Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson, directed by Sin City writer and co-director Frank Miller and based on the classic 1940's newspaper cartoon strip by Will Eisner, The Spirit is ...

Comic-book writer-artist Frank Miller, in his first time as a solo film director, adapts "The Spirit.” "The Spirit” began as a comic-book newspaper insert written and drawn by Will Eisner in the 1940s. It had humor and charm, and moved the medium of ...

 Ca I was influenced by comic book artists like Wally Wood, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Eisner, Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Richard Corben, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Crumb, George Herriman, Herge, Moebius, ...mercy! There's just too many. ...

 Canada In addition to publishing comics from top talent like Frank Miller , Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman , and comics legend Will Eisner, their highly successful line of comics and products based on popular properties includes Star Wars, Aliens, Conan, ...

The Spirit," based on the comic by Will Eisner and adapted to film by Frank Miller, features a serious lack of credibility. By Mark Fleming "State of Play" takes a stab at turning a sometimes morally questionable profession (journalism) into the ...

The Spirit : Robert Rodriguez based his hit movie Sin City -- which comes to Blu-ray later this month -- on the works of comics artist Frank Miller, whom he brought in to collaborate on the film.

Staten Island Advance - SILive.com  IL By Matt Arado | Daily Herald Columnist "The Spirit" (two-disc special edition) - "The Spirit" coulda been a contender. It's based on a beloved pulp hero created by the late comics legend Will Eisner. It has Frank Miller, another comics legend, ...

The Movie Itself is Directed by Frank Miller, who also wrote the screenplay adaption of the film, based largely on the comic strips by Will Eisner. The story revolves around The Spirit (Gabriel Macht), formerly Denny Colt, a policeman killed in the ...

Frank Miller's The Spirit movie is available today on DVD. If you missed it in the movie theaters, here's another chance to see it. If you're a movie fan, or a comics fan, you'll definitely want to watch the DVD Extras about Will Eisner, Frank Miller, and the mechanics of making a "green screen...

 NY This film version of the innovative and influential comic book owes much more to writer/director Frank Miller than to the man who created the character, Will Eisner. Miller, who revitalized Batman as The Dark Knight and co-directed "Sin City," based on ...

 OK By KIM BROWN World Scene Writer The Spirit. PG-13. Based on the comic strip by Will Eisner, this genre-bending film from Frank Miller ("Sin City") features a cop, a jewel thief, a punky secretary, a vivacious nightclub dancer and more. ...

Playing mix 'n match with retro-noir time travel, associated lingo and relatively futuristic gadgetry, comic book artist turned filmmaker Frank Miller gets revisionist with his take on the Will Eisner devil may care, born-again womanizing urban crime fighter, The Spirit.

 CA By Prairie Miller Playing mix 'n match with retro-noir time travel, associated lingo and relatively futuristic gadgetry, comic book artist turned filmmaker Frank Miller (Sin City) gets revisionist with his take on the Will Eisner devil may care, ...

By rss@youtube.com (MovieMotherTrucker) MovieMotherTrucker.com = It's probably not a good idea to see The Spirit until after you've seen this video. The Spirit, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes, Jaime King, Paz Vega, Will Eisner, Frank Miller Keywords: The Spirit Scarlett Johansson Samuel L. Jackson Eva Mendes...

An adaptation of the Will Eisner comic book series that launched over 60 years ago, "The Spirit" has been groomed for big screen dominance by writer/director Frank Miller, himself a legend in the field of ...

By Hugh Hart The Spirit Synopsis: Masked avenger The Spirit (Gabriel Macht) tracks the villainous Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) and the seductive Sand Saref (Eva Mendes) through the dark streets of Central City. Scarlett Johansson co-stars in the movie, adapted from the Will Eisner comic by writer-d...

By Hugh Hart Miller knew Eisner personally, carved out his own niche as a groundbreaking graphic novelist back in the '80s and got hands-on filmmaking experience when he co-directed the big-screen adaptation of his own graphic novel Sin City with Robert Rodriguez.

By noreply@blogger.com (Valerie D'Orazio) Aint It Cool News correspondent Jondough has viewed Frank Miller's "The Spirit" movie and writes: and, to Frank Miller: As for me, I would have to see the film. But from the trailers, "The Spirit" seems far more an homage to Miller's style of film-making than to Will Eisner.

Written and directed by Frank Miller, the film is adapted from a classic Will Eisner comic and also stars Gabriel Macht as The Spirit and Samuel L. Jackson as his nemesis, The Octopus. The Spirit is scheduled for release on Christmas Day and is up against Benjamin Button!

By Geoff Boucher Frank Miller drops an F-bomb in "All Star Batman and Robin," calls it "terrible and glorious" Mr. T, Superman and why Frank Miller thinks Sylvester Stallone would make a good Batman Frank Miller's Hollywood adventure: "I'm ready for my fatwa."

By Graeme McMillan As the series transcended its roots and invented new tools of the trade, it became known as a masterpiece because of the skill of its creators (Eisner wasn't the sole writer or artist for the strip, and during World War II, wasn't involved in the strip's creation at all - other creators invo...

By Kevin Melrose Best Short Story: “Mr. Wonderful,” by Dan Clowes, serialized in New York Times Sunday Magazine Best Writer: Ed Brubaker, Captain America, Criminal, Daredevil, Immortal Iron Fist (Marvel) Best Writer/Artist—Humor: Eric Powell, The Goon (Dark Horse) OTHER AWARDS

By Kevin Melrose • Frank Miller asserts that The Spirit and Sin City “are fundamentally different”: “The only ways they resemble each other are the ways that I learned from Will Eisner: the use of black and white, certainly the rapturous approach to women.” [The New York Times]

By Erik Davis 2:45-3:45 Lionsgate and Odd Lot Entertainment: The Spirit- Writer/director Frank Miller and producer Deborah Del Prete are joined by film stars Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, and Eva Mendes in unveiling an exclusive preview of the new film based on the classic comic by Will Eisner. Ha...

By Matt Peckham Alan Moore Frank Miller Joss Whedon Peter Milligan Mike Mignola Brian Bendis Will Eisner Todd McFarlane Now TRIPWIRE is back, this time in full color book format, published annually each July to coincide with the San Diego Comic Con.

By Joel Keller If you're a fan of Frank Miller, Art Spiegelman, Robert Crumb, or any other artist of "adult" graphic novels, you probably already know who Will Eisner is. But for those of us who aren't comic book fanatics, Eisner's story is still pretty fascinating, from his youth as part of a lower-class...