Alex Proyas Calls "The Crow" Remake "Ridiculous"

actually, there we three sequels. and they all sucked. noone can touch what brandon lee and Alex Proyas made with that first film. noone should even try.

Look, they are never goin to "learn their lesson" EVER! If this movie is a pile of shit they will just move on to the next potential cash cow. If it has to be made wouldnt you rather it was something that didnt piss all over the memory of the original?

LMAO @ Gunsmith's comment ....uahahaha.

@Slimybug
THE CROW will always be a classic movie. I agree with you, if this "REBOOT" sucks...everyone will always remember the original crow movie. And I hope it does suck, and I hope that they never attempt to make it again.

@ Shaman
I agree with you on certain things you said, but theres some key points I dont agree one.

I personally feel, The reason Batman NEEDED a REMAKE was because it didnt AGE WELL....It used technology and rubber suits that looked goofy, and the script was just as bad. It was only a good movie of that time because no one had seen anything like it, but if you look back at the script and action sequences TODAY, its just horrendous. I like Tim Burton, but the only good thing about batman was the cinematography, other than that...

...The villians from the batman movies arent even scary they're like the type of guys you would invite at your party, or for dinner, because how goody they were.

"Oh, where does he get those toys?" joker from the first batman movie lol....I dunno....the reboot was made to make the movie more serious....and also because it didnt age well.

If you look at the villian in the current batman franchise...I want them nowhere near me....Scarecrow? Two-face? Heath leadger's Joker.....screw that....that is exactly what fans needed.

On the other hand....

THE CROW ages quite well, they dont use rubber suits or technology at that time, they kept that movie low keyed...and down to earth. The script is decent...AND If they remake it....no one will remember "brandon Lee" for it....as no one remembers "Adam West or Micheal keaton" for batman.

But oh well, thats just how I feel, about this film. since I am a fan of the comics....and bruce lee.

The Crow was a great movie, and is a cult classic and one of my favorite Comic movies, but it bore only a slight resemblance to the original book. I say make it gritty, and real, and set it in circa 1981 Detroit, and make a faithful adaptation to O’Barr's graphic and you will basically have a completely different film. Make this one more of a supernatural revenge film and less of a Gothic out and out love story and it will feel like a different movie. Have the sound track reflect O'Barr's referenced music of that era, Iggy Pop, early Cure, Joy Division, etc. Don't get me wrong guys The Crow was literally what got me into comics, the book not the film, I picked up the first issue when I was 10 at Kutter’s Comics (God rest his soul). It had a huge influence on me, artistically and musically. I do truly love the movie, but I would also love to finally see a faithful retelling of the graphic and every issue that comprised it, all of which I display lovingly here in my man-cave (600 feet below the smoking remains of a sewage treatment plant in the wilds of … OK my upstairs bonus room/office) all signed by James O’Barr, from the 1994 Charlotte NC Comic con. I know I’m in the minority here, but trust me as a zealous fan of this thing it could be really good and stand on its own, or a terrible sin if they [frick] it up, because then it will cheapen two great stories.

Thanks Shaman

nerosday- I also had all the original issues but i got them at an age where i couldn't really appreciate them for what they were. Today, if i still have them, i'd be more appreciative. It was a truly dark story and deserves to be retold in a different way that was done in the first film. But IMO, no matter what is done with the character, nothing will ever take anything away from Bandon Lee's performance as i still enjoy Jack Nicholson's Joker just as much as Heath's.

Wasnt a blank that killed him. It was a piece of the shell that didnt pop off of the blank when it fired. I used to be obsessed with this movie.

Its pointless to remake this film. The film was great for its time and looking back on it now... It's very 90's. It was the end of the grunge rock era and the start of the alternative/rap rock movement (early stages). The film is dated and wouldnt be received as well as it was back in 1994. Music was nearing its peak at that time. It carried the film. That soundtrack was HUGE. It cannot be done again, nor should anyone try. It was a great flick. Leave it be.

The comic was great too.

Why do something the same yet again? Lazy!!! People are gonna be so fed up with reboots/remakes!!! You can an try to do a sequel that tries to be nearly as good as the original, thats all you can hope for!! Remakes suck!!! As for THE JOKER, i see them as two complete different people and hope to god they don't put RIDDLER, CATWOMAN or PENGUIN in the BAT movies! So many untapped Villains in the Dc Universe!!! Its just LAZY to do want been done before, need freshness!!! I don't think the Cinema going public ain't going to stand for it much longer, at 10 buck or so a pop, and we can kiss goodbye to the comicbook movie!!! : ( Damn straight fivebees!!!!

I was in Highschool when the movie Crow came out, and to all you current teenaged fan boys; it was a hell of a lot easier when girls hearts belonged to The Crow after the summer of 1994 to about 1997 when Titanic came out, than it has to be for the guys now dealing with Twilight as their goth-ish date movie. I never grasped why women gravitate to the gothic love beyond death thing as staunchly as they do. At least I enjoyed taking some of my first dates to see that movie; another reason it holds a special place for me.

I agree LEEE777 I think Black Mask is due a turn in a Bat film. He would fit well with Nolan's more organized crime take on Gotham’s baddies.

I wonder if the MPAA will have a problem with a half naked dead guy with make-up on sitting alone in a dark house cutting his forearms, spiral ham style with a rusty straight razor, while weeping and chanting, ”The cat in the hat. The cat in the hat,” while drawing said cat on the wall with his own blood. Yep, for anyone who hasn’t read the book; that is one of its least dark and depressing moments. See why a remake would feel different?

Rorschach01 you stole my avatar i picked about a week ago!!!!! LOL
Anyway I agree that they shouldn't make a new Crow. The 1st one was great, to bad my Role Model's son was killed. This a total Slap in the face to the Lee Family! Some things should just be left the HELL a lone.

Seriously, it's like saying Princess Bride needs a reboot. Or Star Wars Ep 4, needs a remake.

Just one great big WTF!

Eh, duh??? Remaking the Crow is like remaking the bible. It just can't happen.

you would know huh, you look like Flanders son, LOL

Keven I think, and if I'm wrong guys correct me on this, that I remember hearing Lee was killed in the scene where Eric is knelt down and shot in the apartment, I know the .357 magnum python was the weapon that had the broken round's piece lodged in the barrel and Michael Massee who played Funboy pulled the trigger point blank (within two to three feet from Lee's chest) and that is the only scene where all those factors line up.

This has led to the use of FX “pop guns” in some scenes, usually they look like a Beretta whose action does not move when the weapon fires and who’s barrel is in the exact center of the gun rather than the upper portion, it's a dead give away.

The most noticeable place I have seen one recently was in The Punisher, in one of Travolta's first scenes he shoots a thug on the floor using one of these "pop guns." You will see them alot on TV. Annoys the hell ouuta me whenever i see them, but safety first.

let us not bring the bible into this. it os the O.G. It is why characters die and return again and again. It is something we should be familiar with by now. Let them remake. It will be better. Or, it will not. Let us decide.

The bible is the greatest work of fiction. Ever.

Just proves that hollywood has no respect for anyone or anything, they just want to milk every single cow in the corral, and that they have clearly run out of original ideas, I mean they are rebooting like crazy.

mmm, there always was that rumor that the chinese mafia was responsible for both Bruce Lee's and Brandon Lee's deaths, maybe the chinese mafia is behind the reboot (yes I'll just tell myself that so that I don't loose the last glimmer of hope I have in Hollywood).

As far as the bible...yes there have been many different takes, but they haven't dared to make Jesus be a high school teen who has "superpowers" but has to hide them and is bullied in school, he discovers that he has to use his powers to save the world.... wait a minute...

Noob, i think you're on to something here... sell it to FOX!!! They'll try anything ;))

nerosday- I believe the scene he was shot in was near the end, after the bird get's shot, Michael Wincott shoots Brandon and there you see him falling to the ground holding his chest wound. He looks at his blood and says "Aww [frick]...". I'm pretty sure it was there but i've never heard a "documentary" with specific details about the scene where he died.

BmanHall- Ain't that the truth!

Keven- I believe hearing them say that most of the scenes with Brandon had already been shot and the rest could've been done by CGI so i guess whatever was left to shoot had little importance if any.

Michael Wincott is still to this day one of my favorite acotrs in the bizz. Granted he was a bit lacking in Robin Hood: Prince of Theives but he was great in The Three Musketeers, Metro, Alien Resurection and his performance in The Crow will always be one of my very favorite villain roles and yes, i would even compare him to Jack Nicholson's performance as the Joker. In my book, he's THAT good. :))

I for one hope that this film is at least a little better, and more closely resembling the source material than the 1994 Brandon Lee actioner.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Brandon Lee version, but I was a HUGE fan of the O'Barr book, and was a little dissapointed when I saw the final work in the cinemas.
I know there was a lot of hype over the fact that Brandon died making the film, which we can all relate to with the recent death of Heath Ledger, but I couldn't shake off the feeling that I had not seen the best interpretation possible. (Too much action, not enough of the emotional/psychological aspect of what was one of the most beautifully written stories ever!)
I hope that is indeed what happens, but if this new incarnation turns out to be another cookie-cutter action film, I will personally be completely dissapointed, and more than that disgusted!

BLACK MASK YAY!!! As for REMAKE CROW BOO!!! HOLLYWOOD just make a CROW 5 ffs!!! Plenty of comic stories out there from O'barr, the man himself! Can easily make a better sequel than the last bunch, though they ain't really sequels a such lol! ; )

What ever happened to the good old days when Hollywood had new ideas instead of remaking old "classic" movies?