Adapted from the legendary comic book series created by Will Eisner, "The Spirit" is a classic action-adventure-romance written for the screen and directed 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.

i heard the movie will be a PG-13. no gore n boobies then.. 

IMDB

MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of stylized violence and action, some sexual content and brief nudity.

i heard the movie will be a PG-13. no gore n boobies then.. 

New Poster Puts The Spirit In Shadow

A new poster for The Spirit has popped up online at the Italian site Bad Taste. It’s a pretty poster, a close up with his red tie waving in the breeze and the dark. It also looks a lot like the marketing materials for The Shadow, which is perhaps prophetic since the absolute lack of buzz over this thing floating around out there may soon doom it to a box office failure similar to that of Alec Baldwin’s. Or, maybe it will surprise us all. I’m rooting for that.

Here’s the poster, click to see it bigger over at Bad Taste: