Samuel Jackson to play "Octopus" in Spirit adaptation

Ireland's Evening Echo says that Samuel L. Jackson is going to play a villain called the Octopus in Frank Miller's upcoming adaptation of the Spirit, which'll be Miller's first venture as a director.

Update: and while we're on the subject, here's a small article from the college paper The Daily Eastern News about Miller's Ronin from 1983-84. I remember reading it over a decade ago at a museum library, and it was pretty good.