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Bags and Boards: Vega, King join 'Spirit':
...OK, look. I'm not one to be giving Miller the benefit of the doubt about anything. Your mileage may vary and all that. But what on earth is he doing casting a film with, to date, possibly six villains cast? (Plaster of Paris, Lorelei, Sand Saref, Silken Floss, The Octopus, Phobos). Canonically, I don't think any of them ever met each other -- not that canon has anything to do with anything, of course. But still, I would think that the lesson of the Batman films of auld would be that with more than one major villain, the film winds up being somewhat chaotic and disconnected. Batman Returns somehow managed to work despite the fact that, with its three villains, it was quite clearly two almost completely independent films (The Catwoman film was much more interesting than the Penguin movie, and the Christopher Walken movie almost, but not quite, managed to bridge the two); Batman Forever, despite being technically better integrated, never quite figured how how to make its villain stories play together, and Batman and Robin never quite figured out how to do anything. It's possible that all of these villains can be integrated in useful ways, I suppose; certainly some are going to be more central than others.
...But six?
CORRECTION: In a previous piece, I mentioned that Albuquerque would be playing the role of New York; it's actually playing the role of Central City. It's just that Central City is so clearly New York that it's hard to remember that it technically isn't.
Also, a somewhat priceless review of All Star Batman and Robin.
Any one who's read Frank Miller's work knows how much the acclaimed writer, artist and now director loves beautiful women and femmes fatales. This is, after all, the man who created Sin City stories with titles such as "A Dame to Kill For," "The Babe Wore Red" and "Booze, Broads and Bullets." So it's no surprise that he's packing as many beautiful actresses as possible into his adaptation of "Will Eisner's The Spirit," with Paz Vega and "Sin City" alumna Jamie King joining the production.
Vega will play the knife-tossing Plaster of Paris, while King will play "a phantom siren" named Lorelei. They join an already impressive cast of actresses, which includes Eva Mendes, Scarlett Johansson and Sarah Paulson.
"The Spirit" information at IMDB
...OK, look. I'm not one to be giving Miller the benefit of the doubt about anything. Your mileage may vary and all that. But what on earth is he doing casting a film with, to date, possibly six villains cast? (Plaster of Paris, Lorelei, Sand Saref, Silken Floss, The Octopus, Phobos). Canonically, I don't think any of them ever met each other -- not that canon has anything to do with anything, of course. But still, I would think that the lesson of the Batman films of auld would be that with more than one major villain, the film winds up being somewhat chaotic and disconnected. Batman Returns somehow managed to work despite the fact that, with its three villains, it was quite clearly two almost completely independent films (The Catwoman film was much more interesting than the Penguin movie, and the Christopher Walken movie almost, but not quite, managed to bridge the two); Batman Forever, despite being technically better integrated, never quite figured how how to make its villain stories play together, and Batman and Robin never quite figured out how to do anything. It's possible that all of these villains can be integrated in useful ways, I suppose; certainly some are going to be more central than others.
...But six?
CORRECTION: In a previous piece, I mentioned that Albuquerque would be playing the role of New York; it's actually playing the role of Central City. It's just that Central City is so clearly New York that it's hard to remember that it technically isn't.
Also, a somewhat priceless review of All Star Batman and Robin.