Further Casting

[fangirljen]

I just watched G4's Comic Con 2008 Preview show today and I must say, they made The Spirit sounds like many kinds of awesome. I saw the previous teaser during...erm, Incredible Hulk I think, but it wasn't that good. Didn't make the movie look all that interesting.

While playing around further on Empire's website, I came across the full-length trailer. As I learned from G4 and Blair Butler, IT IS MANY KINDS OF AWESOME!

Check it out for yourself

I really liked that style for Sin City. I'm a fan of the 40s era and film noir. Who can pass on a good detective story, eh? :D

Comments

[boombangbing.livejournal.com]

Oh man, me and my comic book friends have some serious problems with the movie adaptation. Have you read The Spirit? The trailer looks good, but... it's not the comic. I guess I should keep an open mind, though.

(Sarah Paulson as Ellen is awesome, though.)

[fangirljen.livejournal.com]

What problems do you have with it?

Nope, I never have.

[boombangbing.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess the main problem is The Spirit is not Sin City, it's not whoreswhoreswhoresBLOODviolence. Denny's suave and subtly humourous, and it's all pretty low-key. It's just... not got the same feel, you know? I guess, though, the rabid fans will always have problems with adaptations. :)

[fangirljen.livejournal.com]

Is there blood? I didn't see blood, just lots of women. Being suave and subtly humourous, does he make the ladies happy, or...is there just that 'lady in red' for him, or what?

[boombangbing.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm going mostly on Miller's previous form, since very little has been released about the film as of yet, and its similarities to Sin City is just a little worrying to me (although, you know, I see why he made that choice, it's certainly a visual style that people associate with him). As far as the ladies are concerned, he tends to have lots of little romances which change every couple of issues, since continuity doesn't really seem to be a thing that the writers were and are worried about. He mostly has tragic romances that cannot be, as any good hero should. Also, the comic (when it was good, at least) was very much an ensemble piece with him and the police commissioner and his friend and getaway driver Ebony. The trailer's definitely not giving the impression that they're sticking to that, but who knows at this point.

I am probably judging it way too harshly. I just love the comic an obnoxious amount.