Monday, April 30, 2007
LA Times: Revenge of the Dark Knight
"Honestly, to me, there's nobody else that could do this film. I saw him at Will Eisner's memorial service last year and I told him that I'd been turning comic books into movies for years, but that with 'Sin City' he's doing something better: He was making movies into comic books. I told him he had to make 'The Spirit.' He said there was no way he could do it. Then after three minutes he said, 'There's no way I can let anybody else do it.' "
--Michael Uslan, executive producer of The Spirit movie, on writer/director Frank Miller. He was interviewed by Geoff Boucher for a story about Miller's upcoming film work in the Los Angeles Times.
Labels: Frank Miller, Los Angeles Times, Michael Uslan, The Spirit movie, Will Eisner
DC Comics You Should Be Reading: The Spirit
"The occasional dreamy look of The Spirit has been replaced with a more conventional comic book feel, and Cooke's action-oriented plots haven't yet suggested anything as curious as "The Story of Gerhard Shnobble" or "The Story of Rat-Tat the Machine Gun". That said, as Frank Miller peddles a rated-R, Sin City style "Spirit" to movie producers, Cooke is modernizing The Spirit with an eye on how this might work on the big screen..."
-- Read the rest of Ryan's review at FilmFodder.com!
Labels: Darwyn Cooke, DC Comics, The Spirit, Will Eisner
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