Samuel L.Jackson has a knack for picking the cool and not making himself like a fool (can I continue? Cinema he does rule, he’s so hot he needs to cool off in the pool – maybe take a dip with Jewel. Sllllurp. Beer) – his latest slick picking is “The Spirit”, the new Frank Miller thingy happening over at Lionsgate.

Everyone’s favourite mother fudda will play the film’s token mysterious villain – the Octopus, the Spirit’s adversary. One can only assume he’ll “And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to” touch his tentacles. Um, yeah.

The story centers on Denny Colt, an ambitious young cop murdered in the line of duty who under mysterious circumstances is reborn as the masked mystery man known as the Spirit.

Jackson would play the Spirit's nemesis, the Octopus, a meek lab assistant who reinvents himself as a psychotic nightmare that kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face. The Octopus' tentacles reach into every aspect of crime in fictitious Central City, a city he plans to wipe out.

Frank Miller, penner of the graphic novel on which the film is based and director of the film, said Sam the Man was his first choice for the role of the sea-creaturely-named villain. He’s apparently still deciding whom to cast as the lead.

If things had turned out different, Jackson might be filming a “Snakes on a plane” sequel at the moment… and wouldn’t have been able to fit in such cool films as “The Sprit” (not to mention the upcoming “Black Water Transit”, “1408” and “Jumper”). So thank god Internet hype sometimes only equates to just that.