Sarah Paulson, best known from the recently cancelled “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” is joining Frank Miller’s first solo directorial effort Will Eisner’s The Spirit adaptated from the graphic novel of the same name along with Dan Lauria, Stana Katic, Johnny Simmons and Louis Lombardi.
Paulson joins leading ladies Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson in the film noir about a rookie cop who returns from the dead to fight crime as the Spirit (Gabriel Macht) from the shadows of Central City. However, while Mendes and Johansson are playing femme fatales, Paulson is playing the hero’s true love, Dr. Ellen Dolan, the police commissioner’s daughter.
Lauria (ABC’s mini “The Path to 9/11”) is playing the police commissioner, while Katic (Feast of Love) is a rookie cop. Simmons (Evan Almighty) plays a young Denny Colt, while Lombardi (Fox’s “24”) will play Phobos, a henchman for the Octopus played by Samuel L. Jackson.
Production will begin in October in New Mexico and will be shot entirely at Albuquerque Studios.
