The following is a reprint from Variety Magazine, but before you get to it, excuse my rant... I'll be screaming for a while, really screaming, so pardon the caps
WWWWHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYY WOULD ANYONE IN THIS FORSAKEN PLANET BELIEVE THERE IS AN URGENT NEED TO REMAKE THE CROW?
THEY TRIED TO CONTINUE THE FRANCHISE AND IT FAILED MISERABLY. BUT NOOOOOOO, ONE BLUNDER IS NOT ENOUGH.
I CAN SEE THE PITCH FOR THIS ONE...
WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF FRESH IDEAS GUYS... WHAT IS NEXT ON THE AGENDA?
DUNNO BOSS, WHATTABOUT TOSSING ACTION AND SUPERNATURAL INTO THE BLENDER. YOU KNOW SOMETHING ANGSTY THESE EMO KIDS CAN RELATE TO... WHAT ABOUT REFRYING THE CROW? THE CROW, YOU MEAN THE ONE WITH BRANDON LEE? MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW IT'S TOO VIOLENT AND TOO DARK. DON'T WORRY WE'LL WATER IT DOWN, THROW IN A LITTLE MORE CHEESE, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT ED CULLEN THING WORKED WONDERS FOR THE "NEO GOTHS" AND THEN WE'LL SHOOT IT DOCUMENTARY STYLE... ALA CLOVERFIELD!!!!! IT WILL FRIGGING ROCK. DON'T YOU MEAN FUCKING ROCK? HECK NO, THIS WILL BE PG-13, THIS WAY WE CAN TIE IT IN WITH BURGER KING.
SHOOT ME DEAD. I MEAN THERE ARE FEW THINGS IN MY GEEK UNIVERSE THAT I HOLD SACRED, AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM. JAMES O'BARR CREATED THE PERFECT GOTHIC TALE, A LOVE POEM WRITTEN IN VIOLENT STANZAS. ALEX PROYAS' VISION TRANSLATED IT BEAUTIFULLY TO THE SCREEN AND BRANDON LEE AND MICHAEL WINCOTT JUST DELIVERED. IT IS A STORY IN THREE ARCS THAT ENDS WITH A PICTURE OF DEATH AS THE FINAL RECONCILIATION. IT WAS NOT MEANT TO HAVE A SECOND INSTALLMENT, LET ALONE A REINTERPRETATION.
THE QUOTE:
"Quick impression for you: Caw! Caw! Bang! Fuck, I'm dead! "- HOPE THE SAME THING HAPPENS TO THIS IDEA
I'LL GO CRY NOW...
Norrington flies with 'Crow' franchise
Filmmaker to write, direct reinvention of series
By MICHAEL FLEMING
“The Crow” will fly again.
Stephen Norrington has signed on to write and direct a reinvention of “The Crow,” based on the comic created by James O’Barr.
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 screen transfer, in which rock musician Eric Draven is murdered trying to rescue his girlfriend from thugs, and returns from the dead one year later to exact vengeance. Though the original became a gothic-style hit that grossed nearly $100 million worldwide, it is primarily remembered for a tragic accident in which star Brandon Lee was killed during filming.
For Norrington, “The Crow” deal marks the end of a long screen sabbatical. After making his breakthrough with the Marvel Comics hero “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 film since.
Norrington said he felt demoralized by that experience, and the accomplished sculptor spent the next five years writing and working on his art. He made a deal to direct “Clash of the Titans” for Warner Bros., but left the project, he said, because he was “unable to excite Warner Bros. with my take, or influence the screenplay to any comfortable extent.” That pic goes into production early next year with Louis Leterrier at the helm.
Norrington resolved to focus on independent projects, and sparked to an approach on “The Crow” from Relativity production chief Tucker Tooley and Pressman. Norrington had a relationship with Pressman when they came close to making “Mutant Chronicles” several years ago. Both embraced Norrington’s vision of the antihero, which Norrington said will be different than the film Proyas made.
“Whereas Proyas’ original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style,” Norrington told Daily Variety.
Norrington is repped by Endeavor.
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