Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The New 'Crow' Is Not a Remake

A new film adaptation of "The Crow" comic book will feature a completely different version of the goth avenger.

Director Stephen Norrington is relaunching the franchise, which was previously adapted into a 1994 film starring Brandon Lee.

It was followed by three film sequels - "The Crow: City of Angels" in 1996, "The Crow: Salvation" in 2000, and "The Crow: Wicked Prayer" in 2005 - and a TV series called "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven" in 1998.

The first film was a critical and commercial success and has become a cult classic, earning a place in film legend because its star Lee died, at the age of 28, in a tragic gun accident on set. The three sequels were all flops, with the last two going straight to video.

According to Mania.com, the new movie will not focus on creator James O'Barr's original Crow, Eric Draven, a rock musician who is murdered trying to rescue his girlfriend from thugs and returns from the dead a year later to exact vengeance.

It will instead be "an all-new take on the mythology of resurrection and revenge."

Norrington is preparing to deliver his script later this month and it's reported that the story is "very different from the original - a whole new story about a whole new character."

Norrington had earlier told Variety: "Whereas [Alex] Proyas' original was gloriously gothic and stylised, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style."

Norrington is an accomplished sculptor and from the sounds of it, he's got a very distinct style that seems to cater towards darker, gothic subject matter like vampires and revenge. Sure, there are no vampires in "The Crow," but with Norrington signed on to make this film as well as a new "Blade" prequel, expect the two films to be similar.

More news to come! Catch ya' later!
Sources: First Showing, The Geek Files

2 comments:

Mikey said...

If Norrington makes it more like his version of "Blade", instead of "LXG", I might be happy.

But I'm worried--the first Crow is great and no one has been able to match it--I'm definitely happy this isn't a remake. They've gotta do something different with it. Maybe we need a big name star/actor in the title role or maybe it's time for a female version of The Crow?

Head Hero said...

Holy....

A female Crow.
That would be awesome...and hot...at the same time.

But the first film just has a great feel to it and Brandon Lee really did his best and is most remembered for that role due to the tragic accident that happened on set.

A remake I didn't agree with, but a reboot can work. But there have been more "Crow" films...and they just bombed.

We can only wait to see some concept art and ideas being done for this film to see how it is coming along.