
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. 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.
The Spirit arrives in theaters on January 16th, 2009