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A new movie based on "The Phantom"!?

2008-12-15T23:05:00.000-08:00

HOLY BILLY ZANE!

The Western Australian has taken the time off of fighting kangaroos and saving babies from vicious dingos to report that Sherlock Symington Productions has aquired the rights to produce a film based on Lee Falk's The Phantom.
Producer Bruce Sherlock is quoted as saying: "I, frankly, think that’s what was missing in the first Phantom - we had a very limited budget,It’s a better budget this time and also I just feel very comfortable with the script. I think we did it okay before, but I really, honestly, feel we can do it better. A lot better.” The film will be directed by also very Australian Tim Boyle and producer Bruce Sherlock revealed to everyone that the film will follow in the vein of The Dark Knight, an industry insider is quoted as saying:"The Film will follow in the footsteps of the Dark Knight? No Shit Sherlock."

Star Trek in IMAX?

2008-12-14T20:41:00.000-08:00

SCI-FI WIRE is reporting that JJ Abrams upcoming Seqboot will be making its way to IMAX theatres. I'm not aware that JJ used IMAX cameras to film so they'll just be up-scaling the footage which, in my understand, doesn't look nearly as nice as a film shot on the IMAX filmstock. Hopefully if the film gets a sequel (Its Star Trek, of course it will.) JJ will venture into Christopher Nolan country and film on actual IMAX stock.

Branagh talks Thor.

2008-12-14T20:22:00.000-08:00

“To work on a story about one of the immortals, Gods, extraordinary beings, inter-dimensional creatures.”

Those are some words Kenneth told MTV's completely useless Splashpage Feature. He seems enthused and I must agree, I am as well. Kenneth dropped a few tidbits about casting aswell: “There’s been lots of talk [about casting] — I sound like a politician — but we are too early at this stage. We’re getting the story and the visual effects together and all of that is very exciting. Someone sensational is going to play the part but it is early days.”
Too early? The movie has been in pre-pre-production for a few months now, and the script I've read seemed great and well suited for Mary Shelly's Thor.. I mean Kenneth's Thor.

Check out the link above for a full run-down of what he spilled to MTV's Hipster comic rag. Here's to hoping Thor still rocks those leopard print pants!

The Dark Knight - Blu-Ray.

2008-12-14T03:47:00.001-08:00

Let me just say this, I'm sorry for not updating in the longest time. I've been busy looking for a job and had little money to pay for hosting. That's no longer an issue now, so lets begin:

First off, the IMAX scenes alone are almost worth it, they're glorious, even watching it on a 19" 1080i television. The quality is amazing the picture and detail are exceptional (the creepy part about blu-ray has been that I tend to notice things that I never see on a regular DVD such as Heath's Joker not wearing eye make-up under his bank robbery mask.) The Blu-ray release switches from Full-screen during the IMAX scenes and letterbox for the standard 35mm, its a bit weird at first but still its different, original, its a mixing up that I don't mind. The specials features are nice, standard "making-of" that point out some rather interesting tidbits such as how little CGI seemed to used (that's another great thing, half the model work in this film is completely un-noticeable.) The second disc comes with a concept art section, two history channel documentaries that showcase just how much of a "needs punched in the face, douche bag" Paul Levitz is, and the required trailer section. There is no directors commentary yet, however, on Dec. 18th Chris Nolan is using the Blu-ray live to give a commentary and answer questions (My question: Can I suck on your now probably gold plated penis?)

Some of the bad things I have aren't really with the BR but generally with the movie, well, scratch that one glaring thing that I do in fact have with the BR release: The inclusion of a "digital copy", I've never understood this trend in Hollywood to release essential a scaled down version of a movie that will only work on Windows computers. They're DRM'd riddled filler that are essential of no use to people. I understand that Hollywood wants to stop pirating of their films but why not use the Dark City approach? Why not include a slip of paper with a link and code on it? I have no use for this "digital copy", I don't particularly enjoy watching a movie on a screen roughly the size of a space-bar and I don't want another DVD-rom that will be lost 2 days after I purchase the movie only to have an OCD fit when I can't find it.

The only other problems I have are, like I said, part of the movie such as the out of place kids pretend shooting at cars scene and the fact that the cinematographer some how managed to make Maggie look even more like Alf.

Well, its 7:14 AM, I haven't slept in a day and a half and I'm out of Mountain Dew.

Peace,
Allynd.

New Sand Seref poster.

2008-06-07T19:20:00.000-07:00

What do you think? Mendes looks hott.

Sneek Peak: Production Blog #9

2008-06-02T00:36:00.000-07:00

THE SPIRIT Blog #9

TO MY READERS

Much has been the fuss in the comics' blogosphere about my SPIRIT movie—much justified, much hoped for, and much to my delight, that there has been a fuss at all. Some comics readers are terrified that THE SPIRIT will be a retread of my SIN CITY. Others quarrel over the change of the SPIRIT'S traditional blue hat, mask, and jacket, to black. These are understandable concerns for any lover of Will Eisner's masterpiece. I take this opportunity to address these concerns. With glee, I take this opportunity.

THE SPIRIT is, with every effort I give it, not a rusty, dusty old monument to the work of my beloved Mentor, so much as it is an extension of what I know to have been Eisner's central intent: to create something new, witty, and exploratory. That's what he did. That's what I'm doing.

It only resembles SIN CITY in that I am its director, and, well, yes, I have my ways and my proclivities. Luckily, I was able to discern three important proclivities I share with the Master. We both love good stories. We both love New York City. And we both love beautiful women.

(Please forgive my constant present-tense references to my dear friend. His creative force, and his force of personality, remains so strong in my mind that I can't often think of Will Eisner as a man who has left us.)

Now, about that blue suit.

Comic books have long traditions based on the limitations of pre-digital printing. Among these are traditions from the old newsprint-run-through-letterpress approach (yes, comics have been—and still do--follow tradition that dates all the way back to Gutenberg!). Bad printing on pulp paper is why it was necessary for every superhero to have his emblem printed on his chest, and that everything that's black be printed in blue. Hence Superman's preposterous blue hair. And the Spirit's blue hat, mask, and suit.

In tests—and we did several—the blue made the Spirit look like an unfortunate guest at a Halloween party. Going to black brings back his essential mystery, his Zorro-like sexiness. It also makes that red tie of his look very, very cool. So I made the call, with all respect to Eisner's creation, and most importantly, to what I perceived as his underlying intention. It was an easy call for me to make. The Spirit dresses in black, and looks much the better for it. As I said, my desire was never to slavishly follow the rules of '40s printing into campy oblivion, but to reintroduce Eisner's creation, via modern technology, to our brave new world.

And THE SPIRIT as some sort of SIN CITY REDUX? No, SIN CITY, that one's my own baby, folks, and it looks the way it does for its own reasons. THE SPIRIT is, and will always be, Eisner's SPIRIT. Anybody watching me on the set could attest that I very frequently drew a storyboard for a given shot first as I saw it, then as Will might’ve seen in—and, in every case, went with what I saw as Will's version.

To drive the point home, THE SPIRIT, despite any accidental impression left by that kickass teaser-trailer, is a full-color movie. SIN CITY—and I hope to make of it a movie trilogy all its own, come Hell and high water—is, visually, a playhouse for black and white.

THE SPIRIT's been one hell of an adventure, one that's made me love the world of comics more than ever.

I'm confident that it's going to be one hell of a good movie.

FM

Lord forbid we have to wait until tomorrow! Thanks to SHH! and GeeksOfDoom.

For New God's sake, stay out of the shadows!

2008-05-31T22:40:00.000-07:00

Hey there, peeps, this is my first blog post, ever, and I guess I’ll start by talking about two things important to me: comics and Doctor Who.

I’ll talk about comics first. Personally, I’m more of a DC fan than Marvel, and Secret Invasion hasn’t got me that thrilled. Final Crisis, however, does. Trying to forget the joke that was Countdown (It had it’s moments, but the story felt like: Let’s throw all these people together and pull stuff out of our asses as we go along), I went into the first issue fully expecting to know what’s going on…and boy was I wrong. I mean…I could follow the events, but half the characters I didn’t know. Who the hell is Metron? And who the hell is Libra. I read DC Universe 0, and he appears to just come out of nowhere, saying I’m all powerful and you should follow me. Then he boomtubes J’onn J’onnz (spoilers, sorry!) into his little hideout, and torches him. I thought Martian Manhunter went out like a chump, he didn’t even have some awesome final words. The use of Turpin I thought was weird…he’s a great character( I cried when he was killed in Superman TAS) and I guess his link with Darkseid in that show kinda leaks into Final Crisis here. In the cartoon, Turpin takes Darkseids Omega Beams for Supes. In Final Crisis, Turpin goes to the Dark Side Club (Cute, Morrison, Cute…) and speaks to Darkseid, who is in some human form now after his crappy defeat by Jimmy Olsen ( : | ) and Orion.

Now…the part where I was really confused was Metron and Kamandi. I know nothing about Kamandi and Metron, other than they were both created by Jack Kirby.

And the Monitor becoming Human…I was confused about that at first. I couldn’t figure out who this weird guy was until I looked at his hair.

It’s very well written, but still incredibly confusing. And this being the “Final Crisis” (Final my ass), this story can go anywhere…and this first issue really doesn’t tell us where just yet. It felt like seeing only a small, minute, fraction of a big, huge, massive story that doesn’t really have many issues left.

Now…for my second thing, Doctor Who. OH! How I love it…even the newer episodes, which a lot of people aren’t that fond of. I only started watching it last year, and totally fell in love with it (Well…Captain Jack mainly…I want to have Barrowman’s babies so bad, but I’ll save that explanation for another day). Anyway…I cheated, and I’ve already seen the newest episode that us Yanks will have to wait a few weeks for, and I must say it’s spectacular (I say that about anything with the Doctor, but this time I REALLY mean it). Moffat’s stories tend to play off fears. His first story, The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, plays off of the fear of becoming a mother, I guess. The Girl in the Fireplace starts with a monster under the bed, literally. Blink plays off of the fear of the unknown, because the main characters of that episode weren’t even the Doctor and Martha, but Sally Sparrow, who really had no clue what was happening to her life. This new episode, The Silence in the Library, plays off of the fear of the darkness. It starts off with a little girl talking to her psychiatrist Doctor Moon, played by Colin Salmon. When the girl closes her eyes, she enters this massive library. The Doctor and Donna appear, and freak her out. She’s never seen anyone else in her library before.

This Library is an interesting concept, I think. Despite it being the 51^st century, an entire planet is dedicated to books. Despite being so technologically advanced, where people can have things beamed into their head upon demand, they still take time to read a book.

Now...Spoilers is another big theme of the episode(s). The Doctor meets his future wife, River Song, played beautifully by Alex Kingston. She has this little book, which contains spoilers about the future of the Doctor and Donna.

She’s an archaeologist (WOOT!). Which leads me to the first time I’ve ever been offended by the show: After learning the professions of these intruders, he says he laughs at Archaeologists (WHAT?!). I wasn’t really offended, ‘cause I know that statement was all in good fun.

There was one scene which, honestly, nearly brought me to tears, and that was the death of
Miss Evangelista. Sure... she was a complete idiot, but she was an adorable idiot. She "ghosts", which means her little communicator saves her neural signal for a few minutes, and she basically talks from the dead. It brought poor Donna to tears, because she had befriended the girl not long before she died.

Anyway…There are a few cliffhangers I won’t spoil…and the reference to Rose is very subtle. Look for a picture of a blond girl on the little girl’s wall, with a wolf below it.

A Few Changes.

2008-05-29T22:08:00.000-07:00

As you may have noticed, We've done a few changes to the site. We're no longer 100% devoted to the Spirit but I will still cover it closely, we will now cover just about anything related to the comic, sci-fi, or fantasy genre.

Also, The site has a few new bloggers so Welcome them with open arms!

No news :(

2008-05-29T21:00:00.000-07:00

There really hasn't been anything to report on so I'm starting to think about adding a podcast or maybe some other Bloggers to write for the site and give opinions. I may branch out and start covering other movies as well but I'm not exactly keen on that as this is the "officially un-official" Spirit Film Blog. I haven't really seen any new adverts printed or otherwise for the film but I did get a chance to see Iron Man 4 times (Great film, I recommend it) and Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull once, that movie was terrible in my humble opinion. I'll be back to post some more once I get the site in order.

Teaser Trailer updated

2008-05-16T02:15:00.000-07:00

Nothing really new added just changing the release date.

Also: News is kind of slow, I didn't want any of you readers to think I've stopped posting updates.

First look: The Octopus!

2008-05-12T15:31:00.000-07:00

He looks good, I'd prefer if they didn't show the Octopus's face though :(

The Spirit becomes your next Christmas Present.

2008-05-07T02:33:00.000-07:00

Just to quote Variety here:

Frank Miller is feeling the Christmas spirit.

A confident Lionsgate has moved up the release of Miller's directorial debut, "The Spirit" -- adapted from Will Eisner's comicstrip -- from Jan. 16 to Dec. 25, in the heart of holiday season.

The action-adventure romance toplines Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson and Eva Mendes. Miller ("300," "Sin City") penned the adapted script.

"Spirit," a co-production of Odd Lot Entertainment and Lionsgate, revolves around a slain rookie cop who returns from the dead to fight crime and track a cold-blooded killer.

Lionsgate prexy of theatrical films Tom Ortenberg said the decision to shift the film to Christmas Day came after the project was presented to fans at New York Comic-Con.

Also set to open Dec. 25 are two broad comedies: Disney's Adam Sandler starrer "Bedtime Stories" and 20th Century Fox's Jennifer Aniston-Owen Wilson starrer "Marley and Me."

Now, I'm off to bed with a severe case of Bronchitis.

Will Eisner, Frank Miller, and The Spirit in Wizard #200

2008-05-02T17:36:00.000-07:00

Just thought I'd post because movie news is really slow.

New Spirit widget and contest!

2008-04-23T09:22:00.001-07:00

Yahoo has new Spirit image of Eva Mendes

2008-04-21T06:21:00.000-07:00

http://movies.yahoo.com/slideshows/generic/thespirit.html

She's looking fine.

The Teaser Trailer!

2008-04-19T15:40:00.000-07:00

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1585694&vid=225572

There it is! What do you think?

New Poster!

2008-04-18T16:26:00.000-07:00

AICN just posted this brand new beauty!

The Spirit to be parodied on "The Venture Brothers"

2008-04-18T09:03:00.000-07:00

I was checking up on the Venture Brothers and who do I see in the new character design sheet? None other than the Spirit, but I doubt he's going to be called that.

here is the full image:

New Spirit Action Figure from DC Direct.

2008-04-15T18:43:00.000-07:00

apted from the legendary comic strip, 'Will Eisner's 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.

This 1:6 scale figure is clothed in an authentically detailed film outfit including suit, overcoat, hat and non-removable mask. Manufactured to order. Packaged in a deluxe 4-color window box with a fifth panel.

$ 99.99 US | On Sale December 17, 2008

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The Spirit Nominated for an Eisner Award.

2008-04-15T06:51:00.000-07:00

http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_eisners_08nom.shtml#nomlist

Nominated for:
Best Series, Best Coloring, Best Lettering.

Lets hope it wins and bask in the sweet irony.

Billboard Advertisment

2008-04-12T05:30:00.000-07:00

If anyone has anymore photos I'd love to get them.

Here is a list of where they're at (Only in LA):
* Highland & Franklin
* South La Brea & San Vicente
* West Pico and Fairfax
* West Selma & Wilcox
* Franklin and Argyle
* Robertson & Key
* 3rd Street & Harper
* Robertson & Cashio
* Sunset & Laurel
* Sunset & Parkman

First Official Stills are Here!

2008-04-11T00:44:00.000-07:00

Well, okay, two official stills.

More new photos.

2008-04-11T00:33:00.000-07:00

Again, I had to remove them. Sorry.

is Miller messing up?

2008-04-10T04:51:00.001-07:00

Lately, I've been hearing a lot of complaints from fans at "The Super Hero Hype" message board. The two most used complaints are "The Undershirt isn't white"; I really don't know how to go about addressing this as its simply absurd to complain about a shirt color. The other complaint they have seems to be to "The style we're getting is not the Spirit." again, we don't know this! The only pictures we have from this film are leaked set photos. Some are complaining about about a "Sin City" style, claiming it doesn't fit with Einser's look and feel, I believe it does, and some "sane" people do too.

This image was posted on the "Super Hero Hype" message board by a poster named Rogue Trooper:

That does look and feel like what we're getting. The artist is none other than Will Eisner himself and it has a very "SIN CITY" feel to it.

Well, thats enough from me today, I've came down with the flu so I'm trying to stay well-rested.

Getting into trouble..

2008-04-08T10:19:00.000-07:00

Sorry guys. I got a message from a representative of Special Media Ops and I had to remove them.