Eva Mendes will round out the cast for Frank Miller's "
The Spirit," joining Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson and Gabriel Macht.
Miller wrote the script and will direct the movie, which marks the start of a multipic pact under which Lionsgate and Odd Lot Entertainment will co-finance and co-produce together. Story centers on a rookie cop who fakes his own death so he can fight crime from the shadows.