Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse for The Spirit than that last trailer, the film’s Comic-Con panel seemed to verify that it’s going to be a disaster. Writer-director Frank Miller, producer Deborah Del Prete and actors Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson and Jaime King led us through the literal mud:
Highlights:
- The Spirit is claimed not to be campy, but it does apparently have toilet humor
- It’s set in a film noir-era “nevertime” yet there are cell phones
- Will Eisner probably would have disagreed with some of the scenes
- Get ready for one of the worst “underwater” scenes you’ve ever witnessed
- Jackson has a lot of toys of himself, but his favorite is Mace Windu
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Kevin Smith has a sort of Clerks-does-Letterman interview style. He uses it mercilessly on some Hollywood women who love to make pain: Gale Ann Hurd (producer Terminator, Terminator 2), Lucy Lawless (Xena, Battlestar Galactica), Jaime King (The Spirit, Sin City), and Pia Guerra (Y: The Last Man).
Highlights:
- Lucy Lawless has more sex than Kevin Smith (obviously)
- A 16 year-old palm reader warned Lucy of Jay Leno
- Jaime King is named after The Bionic Woman
- Zach and Miri opens on Halloween
Liveblogging transcript after the jump
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