The Spirit is a Frank Miller graphic novel turned theatrical movie that is scheduled to hit the big screen on Christmas Day, 2008.

Similar in look and feel to Sin City, another Frank Miller directed film, The Spirit is loaded with some very nice looking ladies, including Scarlett Johannson, Eva Mendes and Paz Vega .

And the posters for the film are equally sexy looking, and we have two to show you, featuring Mendes and Johannson. I really love the look of these, black and white, with a splash of red.

The text on one of the posters seems a bit suggestive, I’ll let you be the judge.

Written by Frank Miller, Hard Boiled was released in three issues back in 1990, and then compiled for a 128-page graphic novel/trade paperback in 1993.

The story is about Carl Seitz, an insurance investigator, discovers he is also a homicidal cyborg tax collector who happens to be the last hope of an enslaved robot race.

Interesting. Add it to the list I need to read!

According to MTV’s exclusive report, Miller is in talks to try to direct the big screen adaptation of the story:

We’re talking about [it], Miller declared to us at NY Comic Con. I’ve got a really unusual way I want to do it.

But that’s not all. after co-directing Sin City and single-handedly helming the upcoming adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit, Miller has decided that the only person he’d want directing a Hard Boiled movie is himself.

I’m in love with directing, he gushed. I’ve found a way to expand my career. Comics and directing are really two sides of the same coin. That’s what Robert Rodriguez taught me good drama is good drama.

Miller has written some of the best graphic novels around, like Daredevil, Robocop, Elektra, Wolverine, Batman: The Dark Knight and Sin City.

You can see it below, thanks to Trailer Addict (which has to put out some of the best quality embedded trailers anywhere).

The Spirit, as Jason said, is a former rookie police officer who returns mysteriously from the dead to fight crime in the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy is the Octopus, played by Samuel L. Jackson, and he has a different mission: to wipe out Spirit’s beloved city as part of a plan to pursue his own version of immortality.

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The Spirit is a former rookie police officer who returns mysteriously from the dead to fight crime in the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy is the Octopus, played by Samuel L. Jackson, and he has a different mission: to wipe out Spirit’s beloved city as part of a plan to pursue his own version of immortality.

The Spirit opens in theaters on January 16, 2009.

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 (creator of “300″ and “Sin City”). 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. Surrounding him at every turn are Ellen Dolan (Sarah Paulson), the whip-smart girl-next-door; Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson), a punk secretary and frigid vixen; Plaster of Paris (Paz Vega), a murderous French nightclub dancer; Lorelei (Jaime King), a phantom siren; and Morgenstern (Stana Katic), a sexy young cop. Then of course, there’s Sand Saref (Eva Mendes), the jewel thief with dangerous curves. She’s the love of his life turned bad. Will he save her or will she kill him? In the vein of Batman Begins and Sin City, The Spirit takes us on a sinister, gut-wrenching ride with a hero who is born, murdered and born again.