How would YOU do ''The Spirit''?

[protocida]

Apparently, many people are not enjoying the way Frank Miller is adapting the Spirit comic books. So, here, you can share with other:

How would YOU do the Spirit movie?

Which actors? Which characters? Which plot?

Enjoy. t:

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

I would suspend my ego, and not consider myself the most qualified writer, most qualified director, most qualified designer, and most qualified casting director, and so I would surround myself with people who understood that it is a 'privilege' to be able to interpret Eisner.

That being said, I would make sure I was surrounded by people who had a reverential fear of Eisner's work, and so we would all be doing everything in our ability to make it look and sound exactly like Will Eisner... and not just SAY I was making it look and sound like Will Eisner.

That would mean, not putting my own little "isms" into the work, or making it resemble or sound like my personal work.

Bottom line of all the arguments on here about this subject... and the answer to your question... Eisner doesn't need others' ideas added to his work on the Spirit. He doesn't need fresh ideas from Frank Miller that look and sound like Frank Miller... and he certainly wouldn't need fresh ideas that look and sound like mine.

Unfortunately, his work is being handled by a man who is not nearly as humble or respectful of other people's work.

 

[The Shadow]

If I were gonna do a Spirit film...
-I would make him have a blue suite
-Put Ebony White in it
- Change the octopus a lot, make him white, and where you can't see his face and make him like he is in the comics
- Keep some fem fatales but make them like in the comics and not a bunch of sexual references
-Give it more of a 40s feel
-not make any of the fem fatatales dream spirity people
-not give the Spirit superpowers
-Shall I say more ?

 

[protocida]

THE SPIRIT:
Central City is a violent city. Maniacs run in the streeths commiting crimes and the police forces led by Comisser Dolan can't do anything to stop them. The leader of all those gangs and mobs is Octopus, a misterious kingpin who'se face have never been seen, and his two mistress: Silken Floss, a secretary that loves torture and Plaster of Paris, a exotic dancer that's also a habilidous murderer.

Trying to impeach Octopus, youg police officer Danny Colt is murdered, but brought back to life by a strange chemical substanse. Using his own death as a gimmick, Danny becomes the Spirit, a crime-fighting maskman aid by Dolan and his men.

While trying to hide his true identity of his former girlfriend Ellen Dolan, The Spirit reencounters his childhood sweetheart Sand Saref, framed by the murder of mayor Eisner, part of Octopus delivish scheem to use the same substance that brought Danny back to life to control the whole continent. And to get Spirit out of his track, the insidious villain puts his nemesis head at gunpoint: Whoever kills the Spirit get's 12 million dollars, attracting a whole army of criminals and mercenaries to the streeths of Central City.

And the Spirit must face them.

 

[Project862006]

how could you really stay true to comic specifically with octopus seeing how you cant really market the main villain for a film if you never see his face all i know is Gabriel macht was a perfect casting

 

[Yerzrinot]

-Put Ebony White in it

Yeah, I'm sure Hollywood is gonna go for this...

 

[The Sarge]

I think I would try to give it a very realistic feel, rather than the opposite, like Miller has done.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Yeah, I'm sure Hollywood is gonna go for this...

To be fair, the recent Darwyn Cooke revamp of the character made Ebony into a less offensive, more interesting character.

 

[mego joe]

To be fair, the recent Darwyn Cooke revamp of the character made Ebony into a less offensive, more interesting character.

Cooke did a great job of updating Ebony while maintaining the esssence of the character.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

how could you really stay true to comic specifically with octopus seeing how you cant really market the main villain for a film if you never see his face all i know is Gabriel macht was a perfect casting

To tell the truth I like the cast of the movie. And for the Octopus thing, remember he was a master of disguise. So you could have different famous actors portraying him in his disguises, never revealing his true face.
Did any of you see John Houston's "The List of Adrian Messenger" ?

 

[Bubastis]

To be fair, the recent Darwyn Cooke revamp of the character made Ebony into a less offensive, more interesting character.

Darwyn Cooke's ebony white was awesome. He was like a cool, black, down-to-earth short round.

 

[3 Dev Adam]

Cooke's Ebony White is perfect.

 

[goh78]

I wouldn't. It's scraping the barrel of potential comic books turned movies, and is capitalizing on Miller's name, confusing moviegoers into thinking he made the Sin City and 300 movies.

That being said, I'll still see it.

 

[TheVileOne]

I would have Brad Bird do it. Brad Bird would've done a better Spirit movie, live action or animated than Frank Miller. I believe that in my heart of hearts.

Bird loves the golden age of comics and super heroes, and he understands how to make that material relevant to modern audience and present it. He gives it humor, but he never goes too overboard into nonstop spoof/parody mode.

 

[mego joe]

I would have Brad Bird do it. Brad Bird would've done a better Spirit movie, live action or animated than Frank Miller. I believe that in my heart of hearts.

Bird loves the golden age of comics and super heroes, and he understands how to make that material relevant to modern audience and present it. He gives it humor, but he never goes too overboard into nonstop spoof/parody mode.

I think a lot of people could have done a better Spirit film than Miller. Heck the TV movie from the 80's is better than what we've seen from Miller.

 

[Sgt. Fury]

Apparently, many people are not enjoying the way Frank Miller is adapting the Spirit comic books. So, here, you can share with other:

How would YOU do the Spirit movie?

Which actors? Which characters? Which plot?

Enjoy.

The actors he chose seem to be pretty good. I would of course change the suit back to the blue and white, drop the superpowers, and not have him resurrected.

how could you really stay true to comic specifically with octopus seeing how you cant really market the main villain for a film if you never see his face all i know is Gabriel macht was a perfect casting

There have been successful movies in the past that had both the villians and heroes faces obscured. Reference; V:for Vendetta, Darth Vader, Boba Fett...

Yeah, I'm sure Hollywood is gonna go for this...

That is an example of a change from the source material that no one would complain about.

To tell the truth I like the cast of the movie. And for the Octopus thing, remember he was a master of disguise. So you could have different famous actors portraying him in his disguises, never revealing his true face.

Did any of you see John Houston's "The List of Adrian Messenger" ?

The idea of multiple actors portraying Octopus is a great one. The List of Adrian Messenger was a very good movie. I'm happy to hear I'm not the only one on here who has seen it.

I think a lot of people could have done a better Spirit film than Miller. Heck the TV movie from the 80's is better than what we've seen from Miller.

They at least got the suit and no superpowers parts right. I have a good copy of it I taped off of TV when it originally aired. I hope that a good side effect of the Miller movie is that they release the Sam Jones version on DVD.

 

[TheVileOne]

Well they did release that Nick Fury TV movie on DVD . . . starring the Hasselhoff.