The Crow’s authentic director doesn’t look like very excited in regards to the prospect of his film getting remade.
In a Fb put up, Alex Proyas — who helmed the primary adaptation of The Crow again in 1994 — wrote that whereas he doesn’t “get any pleasure from seeing negativity about any fellow filmmakers work” he thinks “the fan’s [negative] response [to the new film’s marketing] speaks volumes.”
“[The Crow] is not only a film,” Proyas added. “Brandon Lee died making it, and it was completed as a testomony to his misplaced brilliance and tragic loss. It’s his legacy. That’s the way it ought to stay.”
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Each Crow movies are impressed by a graphic novel by James O’Barr. The brand new model stars Invoice Skarsgard within the position beforehand performed by the late Brandon Lee, a person named Eric Draven who’s murdered alongside together with his real love after which returns to the world of the dwelling as a form of ghostly superhero to avenge their deaths.
Lee died in the course of the manufacturing of the unique Crow movie when a gun was not correctly ready for a sequence the place his character was shot. The prop gun used within the scene nonetheless held a bullet in its barrel from an earlier sequence; when a clean was then inserted and fired, it ejected the caught bullet, which hit Lee, killing him. He was solely 28 years outdated on the time of his dying.
The Crow was accomplished with using stunt doubles and particular results; after the movie turned a shock hit, Proyas went on to direct Darkish Metropolis, I, Robotic, Realizing, and his most up-to-date function movie, 2016’s Gods of Egypt.
In his Fb put up, Proyas did state that he’s “sure the forged and crew actually had all good intentions” with their model of The Crow, no matter his personal opinion a few remake.
Right here is the brand new movie’s official synopsis:
Invoice Skarsgård takes on the long-lasting position of THE CROW on this trendy reimagining of the unique graphic novel by James O’Barr. Soulmates Eric Draven (Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her darkish previous meet up with them. Given the prospect to avoid wasting his real love by sacrificing himself, Eric units out to hunt cruel revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the dwelling and the lifeless to place the unsuitable issues proper.
The Crow remake is scheduled to open in theaters on June 7.
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