The Spirit

Plot Summary

Adapted from the legendary comic strip, THE SPIRIT is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister FRANK MILLER (creator of 300 and SIN CITY). It is the story of a former rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as the Spirit (Gabriel Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy, the OCTOPUS (Samuel L. Jackson) has a different mission: he’s going to wipe out Spirit's beloved city as he pursues his own version of immortality. The Spirit tracks this cold-hearted killer from Central City’s rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront ... all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill our masked crusader. Surrounding him at every turn are ELLEN DOLAN (Sarah Paulson), the whip-smart girl-next-door; SILKEN FLOSS (Scarlett Johansson), a punk secretary and frigid vixen; PLASTER OF PARIS (Paz Vega), a murderous French nightclub dancer; LORELEI (Jaime King), a phantom siren; and MORGENSTERN (Stana Katic), a sexy young cop.

Then of course, there’s SAND SAREF (Eva Mendes), the jewel thief with dangerous curves. She’s the love of his life turned bad. Will he save her or will she kill him?

In the vein of BATMAN BEGINS and SIN CITY, THE SPIRIT takes us on a sinister, gut-wrenching ride with a hero who is born, murdered and born again.

Odd Lot Entertainment and Lionsgate are production partners on THE SPIRIT. Lionsgate has domestic and U.K. rights. Odd Lot’s Deborah Del Prete and Gigi Pritzker will produce along with Michael Uslan of Batfilm Productions Inc. Batfilm co-founder Benjamin Melniker and Steven Maier and Odd Lot’s Bill Lischak are executive producers. Odd Lot's Linda McDonough and Batfilm/Comic Book Movies’ F.J. DeSanto serve as co-producers.

Latest from The Spirit

The Spirit World According to Frank Miller

The deadBolt has posted an interview with Allen Moore, director of 'The Spirit'. This marks Moore's first foray into the world of directing feature films. He is a renowned comic and graphic artist with many of his works being turned into films. He discusses the difference between creating a story in graphic form versus motion pictures.

"...One thing that is harder to do in cinema is juxtapose one image next to another and have your mind feel both at the same time. They do sometimes in split screens but it feels awkward, where on the kind of page you are looking at sometimes 6, 7 or maybe even 30 images at once. Then you might not have taken them in 10 times - one thing that can't be on a comic page that effectively all is this. [laughs] There [are these] million huge moments that that or things that just require intimate control of time. You can and we did send any frame to be up in the one eye..."

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Samuel L. Jackson says The Spirit is a cartoon

Comics2Film has posted an interview with 'The Spirit' star Samuel L. Jackson. Directed by Allen Moore, the film is is the story of a former rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as the Spirit to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. Jackson says he enjoyed working with Moore.

"...I hit [lead actor Gabriel Macht] with toilets and stuff. We’re both indestructible. I created him and made him indestructible, and then I turned around and used the stuff on me, so I’m indestructible, and even when I get shot I shake the bullets out of my head. It’s a cartoon..."

Read the full interview here.

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