Wednesday, August 22, 2007

All Aboard The Spirit Train

Eva Mendes has been cast as Sand Saref in The Spirit. Saref was a relatively late addition to the strip and, for my money, one of the least interesting female characters.

I'd always assumed Ellen Dolan would have been heavily featured in Miller's adaptation, but if she's in the film at all, she's yet to be cast. Maybe the story will be set during her term as mayor? Or maybe she'll just be absent without explanation?

I do expect any number of characters to be missing, or at least heavily changed. Ebony White in particular who, despite actually being quite a well rounded character overall would probably draw fire for his more obviously 'minstrel' -like characteristics.

Beyond casting, it has also been announced that Bill Pope is to shoot the film. Pope's an often good but but wildly inconsistent cinematographer so I'm hardly excited by the news, but at least he has plenty of comic-book-look credentials having shot Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3 and Darkman.

3 comments:

Diego said...

This announcement is making this project look bad. Scarlett Johannsen and Eva Mendes both have the acting skills needed for the porn industry.

Sam "say yes to any script" Jackson can't even save this sinking ship.

- spidey

Anonymous said...

The characters reportedly appearing in the movie are Denny Colt/The Spirit, Commissioner Dolan, Ellen Dolan, Plaster of Paris, Silken Floss, Lorelei Rox and Sand Saref.
Sure, Sand Saref came late in the story of the comic-book (1950), but she must be really important for Miller.
Elektra is an evident homage to that bad girl.

Mark Kardwell said...

I always thought Eisner was at his funniest when The Spirit was balancing/hiding several females from each other.