THE CROW DIRECTOR DESCRIBES HIS REIMAGINING AS 'A SCRAPPY INDIE MOVIE'
Director Rupert Sanders hopes to silence any detractors when The Crow hits theaters in August. Aware of the weight of expectations that come with rebooting a popular property, the filmmaker says his reimagining is not what people may expect.
"There's nothing to do with Hollywood in this movie at all," Sanders told Empire. "It's a very scrappy indie movie," he explained, adding that the independent nature of the project is how the creative team was "able to remain close to the center and the darkness and the violence that's in the graphic novel." According to the filmmaker, "the only reason we could do that is because it's not a studio movie."
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With the global box office dominated by mainstream blockbusters, Sanders hopes that films like his reimagining of The Crow has the potential to break through. "I really hope we're in for another kind of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls period of having to make these more down-and-dirty films that still feel like big epic movies [but] are weirder and stranger," he said, referencing the 2003 Hollywood documentary about the film industry in the 1970s.
Directed by Sanders from a screenplay by Zach Baylin and William Schneider, The Crow is based on the 1989 James O'Barr limited comic book series of the same name. Per the official synopsis, the story begins when "Eric Draven (Bill Skarsgård) and his fiancée Shelly (FKA Twigs) are brutally murdered. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right."
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However, the director of the original 1994 feature film adaptation of The Crow, Alex Proyas, believes the remake should have never been made. "I really don't get any joy from seeing negativity about any fellow filmmakers' work," he said. "And I'm certain the cast and crew really had all good intentions, as we all do on any film. So it pains me to say any more on this topic, but I think the fan's response speaks volumes."
"The Crow is not just a movie," Proyas continued. "Brandon Lee died making it, and it was finished as a testament to his lost brilliance and tragic loss. It is his legacy. That's how it should remain." Actor Brandon Lee died tragically on the set of the 1994 film due to an accidental shooting involving a prop gun.
The Crow hits theaters worldwide on August 23.
Source: Empire
The Crow (2024)
A modern re-imagining of the beloved character, The Crow, based on the original graphic novel by James O'Barr.