THE CROW Reboot Back On Track As Studio Looks To Begin Production In March

it will probably fail anyway. just dont make it. actor after actor and director after director have dropped out of this mess. nobody cares. this has been going on for what? 3 years now?

Or maybe adapt one of the other Crow Comics, the one where a Native American becomes The Crow after his whole family/Tribe are massacred.

It will never be better than the original. Some movies are best left alone. Brandon Lee was great in it.

Just let Guillermo Del Toro write and direct then I'll have faith! He would rock this! He is great with characters like this.

But the industry experts that post on CBM said it was dead after the bankruptcy?

I don't think they'll ever top Brandon Lee's performance from 94.

Best to just go with a completely different Crow...

I look at it this way: The original film is a classic. The comic was a classic. The original film, however, bore little resemblance to the comic. Anyone who has read the comic can attest to that.

If, and I say "if," this new movie is handled well and is a much more faithful adaptation of the comic then I am all for it.

The Crow was and still is one of my absolute favorite comic runs, you give me that story on the big screen in a well written and beautifully filmed movie and you will have my ass in a seat opening night. That story deserves a film.

You give me anything too closely resembling the already great film of my youth then forget it; that film can stand on its own any day and needs no remake.

I'm all for a new Crow, but let it be a new story, just actually write a good one. Or take one from one of the latest comics like Curare or Skinning the Wolves.

thekabsin@ Apparently it will be Eric but not Eric Draven, in order to hive a little distance to the original movie.

NERO@ I actually thought that the 1994 movie did quite well in adapting the source material. I mean, compared to the majority of comic book movies, I would count The Crow as one of the more faithful adaptations. And yet I agree with you. The two pieces are very, very different. The only way that you could justify doing a second adaptation of the book would be to adapt the book with absolute precision. To make a film that is as creative and emotionally impactful as the comics.

The problem, here, is that this is supposedly Relativity's first major concern, post-bankruptcy. That says to me that they are looking at The Crow remake as a way to make money. Yet the only way that they are going to be at all successful with this movie is if they do it for the sake of art and not as a commercial concern. They would literally have to be going for awards, not ticket-sales.
Also, the attitude that most of the key demographic seems to have about this movie could really hurt the movie at the box office. If the fans are not on board, they why the hell should the general public care? There are a million and one CBMs out there. Superhero-fatigue is already setting in. The general movie-going audience needs to know which superhero CBMs are the important ones to go see and which ones aren't worth seeing. They knew that Age of Ultron and Ant-Man were worth seeing, this year, but that Fantastic Four was not. Why would a regular guy go see a superhero movie that even superhero movie fans seem to hate? So they need the fans on board and, ironically, the only real way to get any of the fans on board would be to do a perfect adaptation. An art film.
They can't sell it to the fans as an art film and actually make a Hollywood PG-13 melodrama. Fans of The Crow would be too savvy for that and casual fans would need a lot more than that to actually give a shit in the first place.

Problematic, this movie be.
And yet, IF done right, could be a truly great piece of cinema.