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splashpage.mtv.com - 9/24/2008

Samuel L. Jackson On ‘The Spirit’: ‘It’s Wile E. Coyote With Real People’

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Samuel L. Jackson in 'The Spirit' There’s been no shortage of buzz around the ‘Net about Frank Miller’s upcoming adaptation of Will Eisner’s classic series “The Spirit” , but when MTV News spoke with Samuel L. Jackson about the film and his role in it, the popular actor didn’t hesitate to add ...

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Sam Jackson Compares The Spirit to Looney Tunes [Commentary Track]
Film School Rejects — ... this week about The Spirit’s clumsy nature, then Samuel L. Jackson, who plays the film’s villain Octopus, is comparing it to Wile E. Coyote. In fact, to be more precise, Jackson had this to say in an interview with MTV’s Splash Page: ...

Don't You Get It? The Spirit Is Supposed To Be Funny ! [The Spirit]
io9 — ... other with big things [and] we’re both kind of indestructible, so it’s funny in that way. We get shot up, we get stabbed up, we just don’t die." He also tried to clarify the difference between The Dark Knight and The Spirit: "['The Spirit'] is a comic book. You can call ‘The Dark Knight’ a comic book, but no, it’s a graphic novel. There’s a difference between a comic book and a graphic novel." Yeah, but that difference normally has to do with format and length... [Splash Page] ...