THE SPIRIT
Samuel L Jackson and Eva Mendez walked the red carpet for the premiere of their latest film, The Spirit on Wednesday night in Los Angeles. The film is directed by Frank Miller who has adapted the comics of his mentor into the film.
“Will Eisner was my mentor and he created The Spirit around the same time Superman was created and he drew from older sources. He regarded the Superman and Batman looking like circus performances and so I would rather have a guy with a fedora and red tie,” says director-writer Frank Miller.
The Spirit tells the story of a man who fakes his own death and fights crime from the shadows of central city. Meanwhile, Jackson who plays a villain named Octopuss in the film says he wanted to work with Miller since Sin City.
“I have wanted to work with Frank for a while. I was chasing him for a long time trying to get one of those Sin City stories and I couldn't. Then they end up doing the movie and I am not in it. So when Frank wants to meet you its like - great maybe I am going to get this Sin City story. Then he tells me - I am thinking of doing The Spirit and I want you in it and want you to be the bad guy,” says actor Samuel L Jackson.
Also starring Scarlet Johansson, The Spirit is slated to release on the Christmas Day.
‘SEX GODESS’ MARILYN MONROE
A collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe, spanning her lifetime from obscurity to being a Hollywood sex goddess, were auctioned in New York City for nearly $150,000 on Tuesday. The pictures were taken for Vogue magazine by Bert Stern and were the last professional images taken of Monroe before she died that year of a drug overdose.
THE PROPOSAL
Actress Sandra Bullock is back after a hiatus with The Proposal which sees her play a pushy boss who literally terrorises her assistant played by Ryan Reynolds.
Tables turn when she is forced to marry him a bid to keep her visa and avoid deportation to Canada.
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