The Spirit (1987) dir. Michael Schultz, Von Zerneck-Samuels Productions/Warner Bros. Television
The first draft of this review was roughly six pages of profanities directed at Frank Miller. For those not in the know, Will Eisner created the blue suit clad hero for the Register and Tribune Syndicate in 1940.
The character enjoyed decades in the funny papers, although Hollywood skipped Eisner's work by. When a big budget version was brought to the big screen in 2008 the results were...mixed. Despite Miller's general jackassery, that wasn't the first attempt to get the Spirit on a screen.
Made in 1986 but dumped on the viewing public in late summer of '87, the Spirit told how policeman Denny Colt became the Spirit.
