Mania.com’s Comics 2 Film has exclusively learned that the latest script draft for Stephen Norrington’s (Blade) reboot of The Crow has been “well received” by studio Relativity Media. The reboot is based on the cult-fav comic book character created by James O’Barr in the late 80s, which went on to become a 1994 cult-hit movie directed by Alex Proyas (Knowing), starring the late-great Brandon Lee.
Norrington was recently quoted about his own vision for The Crow, and said, “Whereas [Alex] Proyas’ original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style.” With Norrington’s script getting the thumbs up from execs, The Crow will reportedly fly into production soon, with the next logical step being casting.
So who should play the new Crow?
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For you readers not familiar, Proyas’ film was not exactly “art-house,” and when the subject of your film is a man brutally murdered who returns from the grave as an undead anti-hero bent on murder and vengeance, the idea of “realistic, hard-edged and mysterious,” seems pretty intense. The biggest question I have is whether or not the new Crow will have the martial arts-tinged fighting skills of Brandon Lee’s version, or will he be more of a run & gun, kick-ass brawler type (read: no kung fu training needed)?
Either way, the actor playing the role will need to be as super intense as Norrington’s script calls for – and I can’t help but feel like the character needs to have that kind of wild, devil-may-care attitude that Heath Ledger brought to The Joker. Maybe it’s just the similarities in makeup that have me feeling that way, but still, I need this new Crow to bring the crazy and brutal mayhem we all want to see.
Now normally this would be the part where I would toss you some truly brilliant nominees to play The Crow – however besides the obvious Goth-fav picks (example: Johnny Depp or Trent Reznor) I’m a little too far removed from the character to call it.
Thankfully I have you guys, our loyal Screen Rant readers, to help me out. Name-drop your favorite nominee to play the new Crow in the comment section and if we reach enough of a consensus on a few names, I’ll do a follow up nominee post showcasing your picks!
We like to keep things interactive over here at Screen Rant.
No word yet on when The Crow reboot is aiming to be in theaters, although sometime in 2011 is the current popular guestimate.
Source: Comics 2 Film
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Hahaha female crow?! Then it should be titled “Pigeon”!Lol!
@Longshanks
I’m not the biggest fan of remakes, believe me.
Vic
IF THEY MAKE THIS, RESPECTFULLY DO IT AS THE ORIGINAL COMICS WERE DONE, EVEN THOUGH BRANDON LEES FILM WAS SPECTACULAR, THE COMIC WAS MORE EXTREME, MORE HARD AND UNFORGIVING..IF YOU DO IT, GET A NO NAME..
@kofi
Some remakes are very good (invariably of much older or foreign films) some are terrible, of the examples you gave; Star Trek needed new cast members and was always about the Star Trek universe rather than any single character (i.e. Draven), The Thing and the Fly were from much, much older movies and The (American) Ring was crap!
For me re-making ~The Crow~ is a pointless exercise artistically speaking. The Brandon Lee movie was as close as dammit to the graphic novel (drug-use aside) that any re-make is setting itself up as a very, very big target. That target is drawn even larger by wanting to take the movie in a ‘new, less gothic direction’…
What is left then of the original story? An engaged man watches as the love of his life is murdered and swears revenge even from beyond the grave? That’s the Crow without the Gothic stylings, its also the plot to about 1000 other films. Why tarnish the reputation of The Crow (not the ’sequels’ which were poor, much as I like Dacascos and that guy from Ugly Betty whose name escapes me) with a terrible, ill-conceived film?
There are literally thousands and thousands of books that deserve to be made into movies (good or bad, preferably good) before the industry needs to cannibalise itself like it seems hell-bent on. It seems that in the last few months (years?) there have been more re-makes than at any other time.
Sorry for the massive post everyone, the ‘making of DVD’ of this rant is available from http://www.givemeanoriginalmovieyousoulsuckingleeches.con
Excellent post jordi.
While I might have been a little extreme in agreeing with DrSamBeckett,I think your post pretty much captures the exact same feelings that I have.
I will concede that there are some remakes that have been good and have actually given us something more that just existing as a pure money grab,but those seem to be too few and too far between these days.
Like I said before,where’s a Grendel,X-O Man Of War,or even Bone movies?There’s so much material to choose from,but the Hollywood elite choose to overlook “originality” because,for lack of any other reason,they know that they can recycle and rehash the same old crap,and everyone is gonna eat it up.We might complain about it,but we’ll be grousing with every bite.
Until we as an audience decide that we don’t want to see the same old same old,by not giving them our money,they will just keep on giving us the same old same old.
It’s obvious that in Hollywood,dollars speak louder than anyone.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
i think hayden christensen should play him
i think johnny depp would be perfect…. he can fill those shoes just fine.
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