Official Eisner site posts article praising Spirit film... but, not Miller's.

[IDrawDeadPeople]

Frank Miller's film version of Will Eisner's innovative 1940s comic book, "The Spirit" opens on Christmas Day. It will be stylistic and hyper-visual, a hoped-for perfect melding of film and "sequential art," a term coined by Eisner. What it will not be, however, is revolutionary. Comic book movies are now the meat and potatoes -- not to mention several side vegetables -- of Hollywood. And even its green screen, scene-simulation style is just part of a Miller continuum that started with "Sin City." But if the world had turned a little differently, if fate had been a little kinder, a "Spirit" feature film would have debuted in the 1980s that would not only have been revolutionary but -- those of us involved in it were convinced -- a huge hit, possibly the first $100 million-grossing animated feature. And the futures of such filmmakers as Brad Bird, Gary Kurtz, John Musker and John Lasseter might have taken alternative paths.
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Read the full article here.



Source: willeisner.com




The guys who created Pixar and revolutionized animated filmmaking were going to do a Spirit film, with Eisner on board!!!


... and, instead, we get Miller fondling himself for giggles.

 

[rogue trooper]

Actually it did praise it a little. Kinda'.

 

[Bubastis]

Uhh, where?

 

[theMan-Bat]

The guys who created Pixar and revolutionized animated filmmaking were going to do a Spirit film, with Eisner on board!!!

That's right, Brad Bird had been developing an animated Spirit project for years but couldn't get it picked up (I mentioned this in my The Spirit: The Animated Series thread). Then in 1993 Eisner and Michael Uslan initiate discussions about making a live-action movie. The problem was no studio executive had ever heard of The Spirit. It took Frank Miller to get the Spirit movie project off the ground. "All of a sudden every studio was interested," Del Prete said. And now an animated Spirit project has the potential of finally getting off the ground!

... and, instead, we get Miller fondling himself for giggles.

That ain't what we're getting.

 

[rogue trooper]

Uhh, where?

It will be stylistic and hyper-visual, a hoped-for perfect melding of film and "sequential art," a term coined by Eisner.

 

[mego joe]

It will be stylistic and hyper-visual, a hoped-for perfect melding of film and "sequential art," a term coined by Eisner.

Too bad it won't look like Eisner's Spirit. Now that would have been something.

 

[3 Dev Adam]

It will be stylistic and hyper-visual, a hoped-for perfect melding of film and "sequential art," a term coined by Eisner.

God man, you're really pushing hard to love this movie, eh?

 

[Clark Kent]

God man, you're really pushing hard to love this movie, eh?

Uh, he's just quoting the article.

 

[Lighthouse]

Wow. To think we could have gotten this movie instead. Shame.