The Crow Could Be Filmed On Location In Detroit

Its good to hear anything on THE CROW, great find @ HAWKS!!!

ANIL @ Seriously, i don't think Skaarsgard has enough talent to carry a movie all on his own, i like him in TRUE BLOOD but he just ain't got the chops to pull it off!

Though i wouldn't cry about it, just that we're getting another CROW (better be a decent one) is enough for me!

Screw Montreal, either do it in Detroit or come here in Ottawa!!!

If Norrington can remove Stewart Townsend's stick he has up his ass, he'd make an awesome Crow!!! Luke Goss is also an awesome choice!

Shaman: Townsend would be perfect as The Crow but I don't think anyone could baby him past the first day of filming.;)

TheDemonHunter: I know at least part of the original was shot not too far away from me in Mobile, because thats where Lee shot himself.

And what the Hell was that all about? A big name actor is playing with a prop gun (THATS RIGHT A PROP GUN) on the set and when he pulls the trigger he finds out its loaded with live ammo and blows his guts out.

Did nobody else ever find that a little strange?

The first one was by far the best one RIP Brandon Lee!!

@ mikesanderson

this isn't really a remake though, is it?? its not even about the same guy from the original. none of the crow movies follow the samw character, so unless this is about eric draven, i don't see how it could possibly be a remake.

no you are right Shaman. He was shot by Michael Wincott. The guy even took years away from acting because he was horrified.

@Hawksblueeyes - yeah, Shaman's right, it was during the church scene. And it wasn't a prop gun, it was a real gun with blanks. I think they talk about it in the DVD interviews. One of the blanks misfired and it killed him.

After this incident is when the movie studios started cracking down on weapon prop safety procedures.

Thats what was reported here way back when Shaman, but I have been wrong before so now I gotta do some research to make sure.

I was half wrong. Dammit I hate being wrong!!! I just found this on Reel Reviews. They used live ammo of a sort.

Several prop masters, in an attempt to save time and money, made a grave decision regarding some bullet cartridges that were to be used for a scene involving a close-up shot of a handgun being fired. During the scene, the gun was loaded with "dummy" cartridges, which are used for close-up shots because they contain the actual projectile on the end of the cartridge but contain no gunpowder. (It looks more realistic if the viewer can see the bullet tips in the pistol's cylinders.) It seems that the prop department didn't have any of these "dummy" cartridges on hand, so rather than shut down the production for the night, some Bozo decided that he'd "rig" some of the live rounds. They removed the gunpowder from the cartridges and replaced the bullet tips thereby giving them the "dummy' rounds that were needed for the close-up shots. At some point, one of the tips would unknowingly come loose from the cartridge and lodge itself in the barrel or cylinder of the handgun. (The subsequent investigation never conclusively determined how or why the bullet tip came dislodged.)

Couple quick corrections guys:

1. Movie was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina

2. Michael Massee, who played Fun Boy fired the shot that killed Lee.

3. He died in the apartment death scene during the rape of Shelly. Remember he was put on his knees and shot by Massee using a .44 Mag, the scene shows a close up of the gun allowing you to see the rounds in the revolver's cylinders, these were the "dummy" rounds. The gun was fired less than two feet from him. The squib hit Lee in the upper abdomen and lodged in his lower spine… Here’s the catch, this scene as we know it was filmed with a double. In the original take that killed Lee he was shot as soon as he opened the door and entered the apartment. The longer scene was made so that they could film around the double without showing his face. In the original Eric was to lay bleeding and dead or dying and watch them brutalize Shelly, thus scaring his soul leaving him unable to forgive an rest, a point heavily touched on in the O’Barr story.

Here's the official on Lee's death.

On March 31, 1993, while making The Crow, the crew filmed a scene in which Lee's character walked into his apartment and discovered his girlfriend being beaten and raped by thugs. Actor Michael Massee, who played one of the film's villains, was supposed to fire a gun at Lee as he walked onto the scene.

Because the movie's second unit team was running behind schedule, they decided to make dummy cartridges (cartridges that outwardly appear to be functional but contain no gunpowder or primer) from real cartridges by pulling out the bullet, dumping out the gunpowder and reinserting the bullet. However, the team neglected to consider that the primer was still live and, if fired, could still produce enough force to push the bullet off the end of the cartridge. At some point prior to the fatal scene, the live primer on one of the constructed dummy rounds was discharged by persons unknown while in the pistol's chamber. It caused a squib load, in which the primer provided just enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver.

The malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene, having been re-loaded with low-power black powder blanks. However, the squib load was still lodged in the barrel, and was propelled by the blank cartridge's explosion out of the barrel and into Lee's body. Although the bullet was traveling much slower than a normally fired bullet would be, the bullet's large size and the point-blank firing distance made it powerful enough to fatally wound Lee.

When the blank was fired, the bullet shot out and hit Lee in the abdomen and lodged in his spine. He fell down instantly, and director Alex Proyas shouted "Cut!". When Lee did not respond, the cast and crew rushed to him and found that he was wounded. He was immediately rushed to the hospital. Lee’s heart stopped once on the set and once in the ambulance. Following a six-hour operation to remove the bullet, and despite being given 60 pints (or 28 liters) of blood[citation needed], Lee was pronounced dead at 1:04 pm on March 31, 1993. He was 28 years old.

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Check out the new RED pics I Posted earlier today everybody.

@ Superdog - Yes, Detroit may be a shit hole, but many of the people there are not shit. Just sad, scared people with a lot of worry and not a bright outlook to the future for their families. Anytime a means of income can come into a depressed economy...I'm happy. Besides they have to deal with the Lions every year!

Could be a good choice?

@ Shaman..........AMEN!!

@Hawks - I consider myself an afficianado about the first Crow movie. I wrote my senior term paper on Lee's death being murder and not an accident. The scene was set like the book. I was in the understanding years ago that it was Top Dollar who shot Eric Draven as he came home with groceries. The gun that killed Lee was used earlier to record for sound effects for the movie. There was no weapons master on site and as the gun was loaded with blanks for the scene "allegedly" a bullet tip was jammed into the gun. The blank pushed the bullet out when it was fired, but yet again, had a weapons master been on set they would have been told not to aim at the actor. Oops, I guess.

@ thedeadlantern

no offense, but i think i like Nero's explanation a little better. its much more detailed, and explains everything.

i doubt it was murder.

Well I didn't go into EVERY detail... that and Nero just copied and pasted from here http://www.whosdatedwho.com/celebrity/biography/brandon-lee.htm

Sorry I decided to write mine from memory.

"[Tapping his head] What you kept in here saved me. Thanks." - Eric Draven

hey superdog and skyhook, suck on my chu chu bang bangs, you dont know shit about shit. detroit is garbage to live in but when you bash detroit you bash the whole state of michigan and i live 5 miles from detroit. Its a great place to shoot movies!!! Just ask Transformers and Red Dawn playa!

I live here in Seattle, and I visit Bruce and Brandon's grave. No one can replace him as the Crow. He is missed.

Keanu Reeves as the Crow !!!
though it's probably a small budget so they couldn't afford him.

Here are some actors I would like to see as the Crow..

Bruce Willis
Jeffery Dean Morgan
Robert Downy Jr
James Franco
Scott Foley ( he played on scrubs)

and now for a total oddball choices someone with no acting experince except music videos
One of the greatest front men of all time ( my opinion only, maybe )

SCOTT WEILAND !!!!

the crow is without a doubt one of my favorite films ever, i do hope this succeeds.