The Crow Reboot

[terry78]

We're doing that quite a lot lately.

 

[Symbiotic]

A website called ScreenGeek got an update from O’Barr at Los Angeles Comic-Con:

“As of right now, it’s slated to start pre-production in February with a very talented British director named Corin Hardy. I’m involved in every aspect of the film and working closely with the director.”

Basically, the waiting game continues.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

A website called ScreenGeek got an update from O’Barr at Los Angeles Comic-Con:

“As of right now, it’s slated to start pre-production in February with a very talented British director named Corin Hardy. I’m involved in every aspect of the film and working closely with the director.”

Basically, the waiting game continues.

Why?!?! Why bother?!?! There are few people that were a bigger fan of the series than I was, and I don't mean the movie series. I mean the property in general. Sure, they could do a few things to stick closer to the book, but let's be honest...the movie was actually better than the book. Portions of the book are very hard to digest, and few people are going to root for a protagonist that is constantly self mutilating and shooting up with morphine to deal with the emotional pain. Only way I'd get on board would be if they pursued a female lead. There's no need to retell the Eric Draven story.

 

[Fallen Angel]

BECAUSE the original creator is on board and this movie will be more faithful to the books he wrote. As great and cult level status the first movie got it wasn't very honourable to his source material.

 

[Filmfan93]

I have yet to see the original The Crow...

 

[The Shape]

 

[Symbiotic]

Only way I'd get on board would be if they pursued a female lead.

On that note, that site posted a separate article in which O'Barr went into detail on his original concept for the second film. Spoilered for length:

Spoiler

"My intention was to take it to a completely different direction. So I wrote a story that was a based on a little incident that happened in Chicago about a woman who was killed at her wedding. I remember reading it in the paper and it was just a horrible tragedy. Some Irish gangsters tried to rob a main perish in Chicago where they held the collections, and they got lost coming down. They ended up in the middle of a wedding and one of the bride’s maid’s boyfriend, in the audience, was a cop and a big shoot out started, church burnt down and 13 people were killed.

That story always stuck with me and that day is supposed to be the happiest day in someone’s life and it couldn’t get more tragic than that. So my idea was “Okay, what if I take that scenario and call it The Crow: The Bride?” and she comes back. It was super cool, she’s still wearing her wedding dress with barb wire and nails in her head.

I wrote out a treatment which is 16 pages, it tells you every plot point and tells you everything in the story, and they paid me for it. It was like $10,000, they said “Nah, we can’t make this. First of all, no one is going to see a action movie with a female lead.” And I was like, ”If you do it right, it doesn’t matter if it’s about gender. It just has to be handled right.” They declined and so, there’s the script and I did a bunch of illustrations for it as well and they threw on the shelves at Miramax.

I think it was ’95. I think I wrote it at the end of ’94. By the time it went through the lawyers and pressmen, it ended up in the dusty back room of Miramax. It was the end of ’95 and about 4 or 5 years later this movie ‘Kill Bill’ comes out and I’m sitting in the theater like – you know that meme with the guy? (O’Barr makes a shocked realization face). “This looks vaguely familiar!” Mine didn’t have any of the Kung-Fu nonsense. I mean it’s the exact same story. They paid for it, so they had the right to do whatever they wanna’ do with it. Like a couple of years ago, I dumped it out and thought, “This is a good solid story.” So I decided to turn it into a graphic."

I have yet to see the original The Crow...

It's my favorite film of all time, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Beautiful, raw performance from Brandon Lee.

 

[AverageMan]

I take it Momoa is no longer attached to this?

 

[harlequinade]

When it was announced it was picked up by Sony he was still attached, not sure about if he still is now

 

[The Shape]

I hope he's out.

 

[Loki882]

On that note, that site posted a separate article in which O'Barr went into detail on his original concept for the second film. Spoilered for length:

Spoiler

"My intention was to take it to a completely different direction. So I wrote a story that was a based on a little incident that happened in Chicago about a woman who was killed at her wedding. I remember reading it in the paper and it was just a horrible tragedy. Some Irish gangsters tried to rob a main perish in Chicago where they held the collections, and they got lost coming down. They ended up in the middle of a wedding and one of the bride’s maid’s boyfriend, in the audience, was a cop and a big shoot out started, church burnt down and 13 people were killed.

That story always stuck with me and that day is supposed to be the happiest day in someone’s life and it couldn’t get more tragic than that. So my idea was “Okay, what if I take that scenario and call it The Crow: The Bride?” and she comes back. It was super cool, she’s still wearing her wedding dress with barb wire and nails in her head.

I wrote out a treatment which is 16 pages, it tells you every plot point and tells you everything in the story, and they paid me for it. It was like $10,000, they said “Nah, we can’t make this. First of all, no one is going to see a action movie with a female lead.” And I was like, ”If you do it right, it doesn’t matter if it’s about gender. It just has to be handled right.” They declined and so, there’s the script and I did a bunch of illustrations for it as well and they threw on the shelves at Miramax.

I think it was ’95. I think I wrote it at the end of ’94. By the time it went through the lawyers and pressmen, it ended up in the dusty back room of Miramax. It was the end of ’95 and about 4 or 5 years later this movie ‘Kill Bill’ comes out and I’m sitting in the theater like – you know that meme with the guy? (O’Barr makes a shocked realization face). “This looks vaguely familiar!” Mine didn’t have any of the Kung-Fu nonsense. I mean it’s the exact same story. They paid for it, so they had the right to do whatever they wanna’ do with it. Like a couple of years ago, I dumped it out and thought, “This is a good solid story.” So I decided to turn it into a graphic."

It's my favorite film of all time, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Beautiful, raw performance from Brandon Lee.

That actually sounds like an interesting idea. And if anything, there'd be more of a chance of it being made now than there was back then.

 

[hitmanyr2k]

It's my favorite film of all time, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Beautiful, raw performance from Brandon Lee.

Seconded. A couple of days ago I saw The Crow at my local theater on the big screen for the first time in 23 years. I had been lobbying my theater for nearly 3 years to show it and they finally came through and showed it on Devil's Night. I had goosebumps watching it with all the other fans there.

 

[harlequinade]

https://***********/bestofjasonmo/status/929740706360578049

Jason is doing this :P

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

He seems a good choice, just can’t imagine this finally being made after all of the false starts.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

BECAUSE the original creator is on board and this movie will be more faithful to the books he wrote. As great and cult level status the first movie got it wasn't very honourable to his source material.

I said it earlier, I was the biggest fan of the property in general. That includes O'Barr's work. It doesn't need to be closer to the source material. The source material is pretty hard to swallow. It's hard to get behind a protagonist that self mutilates, pumps himself full of morphine, and generally has every dangerous habit someone with SEVERE depression and mental problems has. It's a hard sell, and could even alienate people that enjoyed the original film. They aren't gonna have any idea that was how it was originally written. They're gonna feel it's pure shock value. They won't know that it was O'Barr's way of coping with the loss of a dear loved one, and they probably won't care. The Brandon Lee film was perfect for what it was. It adapted the material while still making it palatable.

 

[Astro13Zombie]

I'd have no interest in this if it weren't for Momoa.
And he takes my interest from 0 to 100

 

[harlequinade]

I'd have no interest in this if it weren't for Momoa.
And he takes my interest from 0 to 100

I know exactly what you mean

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

So it’s actually happening....

 

[Symbiotic]

I’d feel more confident about it going if they had a full cast in place.

 

[Mandon Knight]

No offence to JM, but he's all wrong for this part, in my view.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

I'd have no interest in this if it weren't for Momoa.
And he takes my interest from 0 to 100

Really? They're sticking with Eric Draven's story still correct? I dig the hell out of Momoa, but he's just not Draven to me. You need some cracked out ass Iggy Pop/Alice Cooper looking mother****er. Maybe if Mamoa was playing Eric Draven's giant steroid injecting juice monkey cousin that came down for the wedding, and Top Dollar loads the cousin's squat bar up with so much weight that he has a brain aneurysm. They could retain some of the novel imagery that way. Instead of shooting up with morphine, he'll run around injecting steroids into his ass. The crow face design could be from all the popped blood vessels in his face! Come on now...that could be worse. He could have the design "burned" onto his face from the electric chair mask. Oh...wait...and then they legit said, "Mad...monkey...love..." That should have been that one's subtitle. **** Salvation. The Crow: Mad...Monkey...Love... Boom! Your welcome! Make the check payable to me. *mic drop*

 

[elgaz]

Really? They're sticking with Eric Draven's story still correct? I dig the hell out of Momoa, but he's just not Draven to me. You need some cracked out ass Iggy Pop/Alice Cooper looking mother****er.

"You called?"

 

[elgaz]

Don't worry, I'm kidding. Depp's just turned into a strung out looking mofo these days and almost a caricature of himself.

 

[harlequinade]

Don't worry, I'm kidding. Depp's just turned into a strung out looking mofo these days and almost a caricature of himself.

Yeah I know I was just saying I heard he is good in Orient Express, though. Still the guy is an absolute mess I can't believe Disney got him for another franchise

 

[The Shape]

I agree that Momoa is all wrong for the part -- at least in terms of how the Eric Draven character is presented in the source material. If they really are aiming to make this a close adaptation of the original comics, this casting doesn't really seem like the best start.