Blade Director Remaking ‘The Crow’

Published by Jeff Leins on: December 15th, 2008

It seems like the only thing we talk about anymore is what movies are being remade.  The latest unoriginal idea is to redo The Crow from 1994.  Blade director Stephen Norrington has signed to write and director a “reinvention” of the story based on the comics by James O’Barr.

The original was about a musician killed trying to rescue his girlfriend from thugs.  He comes back a year later to get his revenge.  If you haven’t seen it, think of it like the goth version of Ghost with less Whoopi Goldberg.

It’s better remembered as “the movie Brandon Lee died making” after a mishap on set with an mistakenly loaded gun.  Scenes were digitally redone to complete the movie, using body doubles and computer composites of Lee’s face.

This will be the first time Norrington has made a movie since The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, which was so bad neither he nor Sean Connery worked again.

Here’s Norrington on his version of The Crow:
“Whereas [Alex] Proyas’ original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style,” Norrington told Variety.  There you have it, he plans on removing the goth style, which was the main appeal of the original.  Remakes are fun, aren’t they?