Samuel L Jackson featured in the role of The Octopus, he is the primary nemesis of The Spirit. In the original Will Eisner comics The Octopus never showed his face in the stories but  could always identify the character by the distinctive gloves he  wore. A master of disguise,

Unlike the comic version, Samuel L Jackson’s film portrayal will include  his face;  it  seems, from the trailers and teasers, that in the film he displays a new love of powerful guns.

Back story Octopus
An origin story tells of Zitzbath Zark, a young man who seems to have been killed when trying to blow up the city’s power plant. However, a month later Zark’s mother receives a package – it contains some jewelry along with a note: ‘From “Z” with love’. She throws the package out, shouting that: “He probably stole them. He should burn”, not realizing that she is being watched across the street by her son.

Time moves onto the present day (in this case, 1966), and Zark’s mother has found The Spirit, and asks him for help in finding her son. It is revealed that The Octopus is alive and well and planning a major robbery. One of the Octopus‘ henchman decides to defect.

The Spirit and Zark’s mother are at police headquarters when the henchman asks to see him. Zark’s mother shoots the man when he tries to speak, telling the Spirit that it is her son. However, with his last breath the man tells the Spirit that in fact it is the Octopus who is disguised as his own mother.

Finding himself cornered, the Octopus jumps into an incinerator. After the incinerator has been cooled down, no trace of the Octopus is found.

In a subsequent story, the Spirit is kidnapped and beaten by a very much alive Octopus, who is trying recover a stolen bankroll that had been hidden by Spider Webb, who died in the Spirit’s arms.

Eva Mendes plays Sand Saref in The Spirit.

The actress bares her bum in the adaptation of Will Eisner’s 1940s comic book The Spirit.

Eva admitted stripping for her role as cat burglar Sand Saref made her nervous.

She said: “I’m excited to see what happens with this scene. Well, I don’t think it’s ‘excited’ – I’m actually nervous.

“I think they have a butt shot of me. I’m not sure how it ended up.”

“The movie looks spectacular.

I play a jewel thief who’s been married 15 times and has killed each and every one of her husbands. When do you get to play that?”

Eva’s nude scene follows her controversial raunchy ad for Calvin Klein’s Secret Obsession perfume. It featured her rolling around semi-naked in bed and was banned in the US.

This is a story of a  former rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as the SPIRIT ( played by 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.

This is the official trailer of The Spirit Movie based on the masked crime fighter created by Will Eisner in 1940.