'The Crow' to Resurrect and Fly Again

i can't see how this will work any better than the original. lee's crow was a product of that time period - can't recapture lightning in a bottle.

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Norrington should be directing Pert Plus commercials.

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Wait a minute... rather than more of the gothic tone, they want to do something "new" by treating the Crow's revenge story in a more gritty, realistic tone?

Gee, I don't think I've ever seen a gritty, aspiring-for-realism revenge tale. Well, unless you count 15% of all of the action movie made in the last 35 years.

Maybe they could get Rainier Wolfcastle to play McB... er, the Crow.

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Uhm wait, 14 years?

The last one came out in 2005. Or are we ignoring the straight to dvd films? Well, I think the one in 1998 I may have seen in the theater. And Kirsten Dunst was in the one in 2000. I guess the fault of hanging out with friends who work in comic book stores is that you tend to see every comic book themed movie. Not that is a bad thing. Just that most of them are not very good.

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I've only seen Crow 1 and 2 so far. They're both 4 out of 5 star movies, in my opinion. 2 Improved on 1 in some ways (Mostly the whole deal with 1 being so dark you couldn't see what was happening - that was probably to hide the sections where Brandon Lee could not be used), but it still was flawed in other ways. I am working on the rest of the series, but expect it to go downhill from 2 on.

Good to hear the series is getting a revival that is exactly the same as the original.

I couldn't even begin to think of who to cast as the new Crow. Totally drawing a blank for long-haired dudes that can brood. Gangrel anyone? I hope someone gets that reference :P.

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Much the way Heath's untimely demise resulted in raising TDK's status to something just short of legendary, the loss of Brandon Lee created an untouchable magic in The Crow. No matter how good the story, no matter how true to O'Barr's vision, no reimaging, no rebooting, no revisiting can ever end well. The subject matter of boths films also played into this, the morbid facination we have with both characters is infused with these deaths and the characters are forever altered by them. I think it impossible to carry on the Joker's story in any further installment of Nolan's films and I think it impossible to create a Crow film that will be embraced by the public. It will always fall short, no matter how carefully made.

So while I've never harboured any particular hate for attempts made to remake or reboot a franchise, I really don't see this being worth the time or effort.


Now... A re-edited version of The Crow, restoring the original plot and missing chracters/moments, while also polishing the efforts made to create a seamless performance by Lee... THAT I could get behind.

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I've got 8 different kinds of bad feelings about this, starting with a reservation about the source material:

I've read the book. Nothing happens. Crow kills a bunch of people, says something vaguely profound (or not), pines for the lost Michelle, poses for a page or so, and then repeat ad infinitum.

It's quite poignant, given how O'Barr spent ten years on it--it shifts from style to style and is drenched with his own personal demons, but it doesn't have anything that approximates a central narrative or character arc. In fact, the one thing that made Lee's character from the film physically vulnerable, wounding the bird, well... that whole dynamic is completely absent from the book. Also absent are the interesting side characters. Even Michael Wilcott's "Top Dollar" is a liberal interpretation of a character that exists for about three frames in the book.

I agree with Matt--the filmic Crow was a product of that time and that atmosphere. What made it resonate then just doesn't exist anymore. And to MCW: don't waste your time. Film 2 was okay ("okay" may be a little generous in the storytelling department, but the tone was spot-on), but after that the franchise descends into B-movie camp. The one with Kirstin Dunst in it was dreadful; at one point they sew her mouth shut--bloodlessly--and for the climax and resolution of the film it looks like she is in dire need of depilatory wax.

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the only resonable character to maybe play the crow would have been heath or johnny depp heath is dead, god rest his soul, and johnny has been seeing a little too much of the lime light if you ask me. sure he a good actor but no one i repeat NO ONE can repeat the master that was brandon less's final performance as the crow as Matt said you can't recapture lightning in a bottle.

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FUCK NO! How could ANYONE think of remaking such a masterpiece?! The Crow (with BRANDON LEE) was (in my opinion) the greatest movie ever made! Because of Lee's performance! There is no way you can take something like that and ruin it. How could anyone even think to? I think this movie will be completely ignored by anyone who loved the first crow so much. COMPLETE FAIL.

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Ok, Im a die hard fan of the original as well as Brandon Lee. As much as I hate to see anyone disturb the original, I wouldnt mind a remake if it was made right. If someone like Christopher Nolan was behind the project. But someone who's looking on a comeback career like Norrington, I have my doubts on what he could create or re-imagine better than the original. He scares me when he says he wants the remove the dark gothic tone. I never heard Nolan say that about Batman? Bad bad move IMO...

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NO NO NO NO NO!!!!

If it were someone who had any grasp of the subject matter, sure I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. BUT NO!! Stephen Norrington NO!!!

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first off KURT is so wrong, the graphic novel is dark,graphic, and brutal. Yes its your typical revenge tale, which it isn't trying to be anything else but that, so i have no idea what he is talking about. If you were to have read the Graphic novel before seeing the film, you would have said it was crap and hated it. They changed it so much. The graphic novel is much more graphic, he is much more crazier and in pain more,and it is just more stylish and poetic than the film adaptation. I have been praying for a remake of this movie, hoping that someone would use the source material better, resulting in a stylish,dark,poeticly bloody revenge film ( cause thats what it is) But let me say i they couldn't have chosen a worse director to adapt this..im scared! hopefully this will be a work of art and save his career ( has to be rated R or it has no hope) READ THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, AND YOU WILL SEE HOW SICK THE CROW COULD BE IF IT WAS ADAPTED RIGHT...( wheres nolan,snyder,cronenberg,del torro)

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The only reaction a sensible person could have to this news.

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http://www.PetitionOnline.com/no2sncro/petition.html

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"Whereas Proyas' original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style."

Hello! Welcome to shaky-cam hell!

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Brandon Lee IS Eric Draven, anyone else would just be PLAYING Eric Draven. Having said that, let them re-make "The Crow". Yeah, I'll probably go see it. If by some chance it turns out to be a good movie, then great. If not, I still have the Brandon Lee version sitting on the DVD shelf to watch whenever I want. Besides, if anything, we may get a heardcover edition of the origional graphic novel out of this...

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