ok, as some of you may have noticed, my avatar is from the movie The Crow, meaning it's my favorite of all time. SO you can imagine my dismay at the possibility of a 4th lame sequel.


Stephen Norrington to Reinvent The Crow
Source: Variety
December 15, 2008

Stephen Norrington has signed on to write and direct a reinvention of The Crow, based on the comic created by James O'Barr, says Variety.

Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is negotiating with producer Ed Pressman to acquire the film franchise and finance the film.

Pressman produced the 1994 Alex Proyas-directed adaptation, in which rock musician Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) is murdered trying to rescue his girlfriend from thugs, and returns from the dead one year later to exact vengeance.

For Norrington, The Crow deal marks the end of a long screen sabbatical. After making his breakthrough with Blade, Norrington took on a big-budget comic transfer with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Neither the director nor his star, Sean Connery, has made a feature film since.

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

Documentary style? WHAT THE FUCK??
Now, LXG was good, as were the Blade movies, so one never knows, this could turn out OK, but I would not wish they redo the 1st movie's storyline. That's like messing with something sacred.

Instead, I present the idea put forth in the Flesh n Blood comic books: a female lead that returns from the dead.


One of the most haunting and compelling comic stories ever told has been resurrected by Dark Horse! People once believed that when a person dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead, although sometimes, something so terrible happens that a sadness is carried with it and the soul cannot rest. And sometimes—just sometimes—the crow can bring that soul back to make the wrong things right


In the midst of a rural land-rights struggle, federal conservation officer Iris Shaw is murdered in a bombing by a rag-tag band of right-wing activists. Little do her killers know that Iris wasn’t their only victim and now, with the help of the Crow, Iris must exact vengeance not only for her own death but also that of her unborn baby. Raised from her grave and armed with cold-blooded hatred and a few deadly weapons, Iris hunts down her killers one by one.


If done right, this would be something worthy of the original.

i have to say, i saw the original recently. i really didn't like it.

The soundtrack and the hype/mystery surrounding Brandon Lee's death are what carried the film. Its quite apparent that he wasn't that good of an actor.

So you're saying he didn't portray a dead person reanimated correctly? How exactly should he have gone about it?

The 1st film was awesome, I refuse to aknowledge the existence of any sequels.

The its/it's confusion throughout this thread is driving me insane.

Nor should you. One of them contains Dennis Hopper's worst performance evarrr.

Worse than Waterworld? I guess I don't even want to know

Dude, it's so bad. Imagine him trying to talk like he's a 20 yr old gangbanger from South Central L.A.

there was a crow 3 i am serious.

#3 Salvation(straight to DVD)


#4 Wicked Prayer(straight to DVD)


yup, that's right. Edward Furlong.

I dunno whats a worse idea, this, or all the highlander sequels.

It cant be worse than the 3rd.

Personally, I think the 4th had to be the worst of the whole thing. Not counting the TV show of course. That was just all kinds of stink.

By 3rd i really meant the 4th.

It felt it was made direct for TV.

The first one was okaaaaaaaaay. But I'd watch any straight to DVD "intensity" flick featuring Furlong and Reid, because that can be nothing short of terrible.

I've only seen the first Crow movie. Love the film & love the soundtrack with a passion. The Cure track - Burn is just magical!

I'm saying Brandon Lee couldn't act, plain and simple. He looked badass, but there are scenes when you watch it after all these years where it comes across as a B-movie. It was on basic cable the other night so I watched some of it.

When he swan dives off the roof before fighting Tin Tin. He gives off this laugh that sounds so contrived and forced. There's nothing possessed or malevolent about it.

When he goes into Gideon's pawn shop he gets shot in the stomach. The wound closes and he's got his head hanging down, with his hair in his face and he's got this devilish grin. In that one instance before he beats the crap out of Gideon, he looks demonic and really cool. But then as the scene ends he spouts off "Death is coming for them, tonight. Tell them Eric Draven sends his regards." The line just wasn't delivered well. So then after all that Gideon starts talking like a bigshot, like he just didn't watch a shotgun wound disappear in this guy's abdomen. "They're gonna erase your ass! You're nothing but street grease!" Its just a poor excuse for the Crow to turn around and lamely say "Is that gasoline I smell?" Cue the big explosion.

Its not that it isn't realistic. Its that Brandon Lee couldn't deliver his lines as well as others might have been able to.

There's such great music on the soundtrack that it really helps the film along. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't like it. But if Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee's son, hadn't accidentally been killed during filming, people wouldn't have flocked to this movie in droves. If it had come out with no media hype, people might've liked it and left it at that. It wouldn't have spawned all these god-awful sequels and inspired so many goth kids to paint their faces every Halloween.

It has nothing to do with him not correctly depicting a dead person. It has to do with the fact that he was essentially a martial artist who acted and those guys always eventually end up as jokes.