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MTV Scoffs At Scarjos Spirit Demotion From Surgeon To Secretary [The Spirit]

io9 - Nov 18, 2008

It's a bad sign for Frank Miller's movie adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit when MTV's own movie-promo special Spoilers feels the need to explain how much cooler the comic was. In this clip, MTV highlights two of …

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Why Frank Miller's Spirit Can Only Fail [Unrant]

io9 - Oct 15, 2008

I've noticed a trend: We do a post about the upcoming movie version of The Spirit, and commenters complain that we're too negative about it. Is it a ploy to bury Frank Miller's directing career, you ask? Why are we …

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12 Splash Pages Will Convince You Frank Miller Shouldn't Adapt The Spirit [Comics]

io9 - Oct 1, 2008

Most of the people eagerly awaiting the Frank Miller-ized movie of Will Eisner's amazing comic The Spirit have never actually read the original comic. So they probably don't have a sense for the difference between the …

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Not Even Samuel L. Jackson In Terrible Eyeliner Can Save The Spirit [The Spirit]

io9 - Aug 13, 2008

New footage from Frank Miller's The Spirit has the Octopus and the Spirit duking it out through a murky cess-pool. It looks like the retarded baby from Sin City. Miller is truly just hell-bent on taking all of the fun …

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Why Does My City Scream? [Urban Decay]

io9 - Aug 7, 2008

Just as Americans are going to the polls in November, a mass media campaign will be ramping up that depicts cities as both dangerous and wracked with torment. "My City Screams!" It could be a slogan for The Dark …

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The Spirit Trailer Tries Too Hard To Get Some [The Spirit]

io9 - Jul 15, 2008

Frank Miller is banking pretty hard on the whole "sex sells" idea in this new trailer for his movie of Will Eisner's classic comic book The Spirit. The black, white and red motif looks like a page torn right out of …

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"The Spirit" Teaser Gives Just A Taste Of The Goods [The Spirit]

io9 - Apr 20, 2008

Here's the teaser for The Spirit, Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's comic book, which screened at New York Comic-Con. Even the few moments of footage managed to captivate the entire audience, from the ringing …

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The Spirit of '50s Sci Fi Returns to Comics [Will Eisner]

io9 - Apr 18, 2008

Over at Newsarama, DC Comics head honcho Paul Levitz writes about celebrating the completion of The Spirit Archives, a series of hardcover collections of Will Eisner's newspaper comic strip from the '40s and '50s …

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First Peek at Evil Secretary Silken Floss from Frank Miller's "The Spirit" [The Spirit]

io9 - Apr 9, 2008

Frank Miller, the comic book auteur behind Dark Knight and Sin City, is directing his first film — an adaptation of 1940s newspaper comic The Spirit. Originally written by Will Eisner, the story features a detective …

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