Too soon! Too Soon! I grew up with the 1994 ‘The Crow’, starring the wonderful (and late) Brandon Lee. I love that movie. If you must, remake those awful sequels.
I dunno…I don’t see the point in remaking it. Why not just make a new one, new story and everything, that does whatever this guy’s “reimagining” wants to do?
On the other hand, I read a good article about how this COULD work if it were to follow the comic more than the Lee flick did. Afterall, it wasn’t that true to the source material. But it doesn’t sound like that’s what they’re going for with their “almost documentary” style and striving for “realism,” which is absurd considering the premise of the plot (dead guy comes back to life thanks to a bird, inherits awesome kung fu skills from bird, annihilates hundreds of henchmen…)
This in no way, shape or form should be done. The Crow is one of those movies that is untouchable. Like the Godfather or Citizen Kane. You just don’t play with it.
Original source material was fantastic, likewise was the Film, but one is not representative of the other. I would love to see a film that was truer to the source material and I tend to think the more documentary, real life approach is more fitting of the source.
I don’t quite agree with comparing The Crow to The Godfather or Citizen Kane. I guess I just don’t have much nostalgia for The Crow. I think director Alex Proyas’ later film, “Dark City”, is superior in every way, and if you’ve ever seen Brandon Lee in any other movie (“Showdown In Little Tokyo”, for example), you’d agree that, well, Dean Cain would totally beat him in an acting contest.
I want to see Bruce Campbell in Mad Max: The Evil Dead. *Then* you’d have something! Opening sequence: A Cadillac ragtop falls out of the sky, lands hard, but immediately burns rubber and runs over the camera…
Definitely doesn’t need to be remade. The original was done in a very timeless fashion and had a GREAT soundtrack. There are no sacred cows when it comes to remakes obviously. So while this is not Citizen Kane or The Godfather, don’t be surprised when those movies also get remade.
This is my all time favorite movie just because of the mood the movie sets.
“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.
Removing the style of the movie? Making it realistic?
How can a gothic movie about an undead avenger have its two main elements removed, and still claim it’s the same movie? Guess the soundtrack will be swapped out for some Hanna Montana as well, just to make it more likeable for the younger generations
too soon? That film shouldnt be remade if every part of its physical existence was wiped off the planet, and it only lived on as a rarely discussed niece legend. It cannot be improved upon, so why try? yes i may seem like a fanboy, but i belive that film has a perfect balance of action, philossophy and stylism.
Anyway, the crow, like the joker, is cursed. it wont get finished, or someone will die……cant people see that?
Remaking The Crow would be like remaking The Dark Knight. The Crow is an amazing movie and is one of my all time favourites, no matter what they try to do it will just spit in the face of that masterpiece. Haven’t the sequels done enough damage?
koracas your view is almost bang on. but it would not be like remaking the dark knight. it would be like remaking the original tim burton batman. which was fantastic. but the dark knight and begins blew it away.
now,… i can’t say i agree with the director’s take on it so far.
but how about this? if the guys that did the dark knight redid the crow? would that increase your confidenc in the new version?
*sigh* I will always have a soft spot for The Crow. I don’t place it on a sacred pedestal, although it is among my favorite films. That being said, I don’t think it needs a remake. It was a good movie, it IS a good movie. It has not grown dated in the last 15 years. I don’t care what style it is done in, the original is quite enough.
Why is it that hardly anybody in Hollywood wants to make original films anymore? Or, rather, I imagine there are plenty of people who do, but none of them are the ones greenlighting new projects…Even the projects that haven’t been made into movies already are usually based on other properties (comic books, novels, and video games), rather than being truly new. It seems like almost all of the movies that do come out from major studios that aren’t remakes or adaptations are empty, fluffy comedies or romances. Its a sad state of affairs.
Hollywood wants the “safe bet”, the moneymaker and nothing else. Instead of taking a chance on a new film based on a book or comic they make something like the reboot of the Witch Mountain series. Thank you for shitting on my childhood once again Hollywood and Disney.
Hmmm. I’m divided on this. When The Crow originally came out, I was in a pretty bad place, and I strongly identified with the violence and anger portrayed in the movie, likewise in the book. I watched it over and over again. In the course of that first year that it was released on video, I must have watched it at least 12 times. I watched it again recently having bought the DVD and found I no longer had the same feeling for the movie. My own anger has bled away, so the it’s no longer a release for me to watch it, I could watch it on it’s own merits. It was a good adaptation of the comic, but by no means faithful to the original material. A new movie COULD be good. However, I remember watching The Crow: City of Angels, and it kinda sucked. The whole point of the story is terrible vengeance being wrought for something terrible that was done to the person who came back. CoA just didn’t have that feel. Yes, he and his son were murdered and that’s terrible, but compared with the gang rape of your fiancée in front of your face as you lie dying by the side of the road/in your apartment (depending on whether you are reading the comic or watching the movie), it really doesn’t generate that same sense of rage. If they can’t capture that feel of rage that is almost driving The Crow insane, then frankly they shouldn’t bother. And I honestly don’t think that Hollywood with it’s wishy-washy-pandering-to-the-masses attitude has got the balls to do it. I may be wrong though.
Way, way way way too too soon damnit, The Crow, with Brandon Lee is classic, classic gold, timeless classic gold sure a remake, sure the crow movie didn’t actually follow the comic book to a 100%, heck not even to 50%, but it was still good. As long as they make a new crow movie based on the comic and not a remake of the movie, it might turn out good.
the first Crow movie is perfect, one of my all time favorites, I see no reason to change it.
Too soon! Too Soon!
I grew up with the 1994 ‘The Crow’, starring the wonderful (and late) Brandon Lee. I love that movie.
If you must, remake those awful sequels.
I dunno…I don’t see the point in remaking it. Why not just make a new one, new story and everything, that does whatever this guy’s “reimagining” wants to do?
On the other hand, I read a good article about how this COULD work if it were to follow the comic more than the Lee flick did. Afterall, it wasn’t that true to the source material. But it doesn’t sound like that’s what they’re going for with their “almost documentary” style and striving for “realism,” which is absurd considering the premise of the plot (dead guy comes back to life thanks to a bird, inherits awesome kung fu skills from bird, annihilates hundreds of henchmen…)
This in no way, shape or form should be done. The Crow is one of those movies that is untouchable. Like the Godfather or Citizen Kane. You just don’t play with it.
Original source material was fantastic, likewise was the Film, but one is not representative of the other. I would love to see a film that was truer to the source material and I tend to think the more documentary, real life approach is more fitting of the source.
Alright, alright, everyone calm down. Let us at least give this one remake a chance, right? I have the cyanide pills right in case the worst happens.
I don’t quite agree with comparing The Crow to The Godfather or Citizen Kane. I guess I just don’t have much nostalgia for The Crow. I think director Alex Proyas’ later film, “Dark City”, is superior in every way, and if you’ve ever seen Brandon Lee in any other movie (“Showdown In Little Tokyo”, for example), you’d agree that, well, Dean Cain would totally beat him in an acting contest.
i can only forgive this if it stars Johnny Depp.
Way to soon. Dammit.
I want to see Bruce Campbell in Mad Max: The Evil Dead. *Then* you’d have something! Opening sequence: A Cadillac ragtop falls out of the sky, lands hard, but immediately burns rubber and runs over the camera…
Too soon. I haven’t even gotten around to watching the first one yet.
Enough remakes. I’m not gonna go. Make something original.
Well, if this is really the same guy that wrote “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” I doubt I could be more underwhelmed.
Way way way too soon.
And without Brandon Lee’s performance what’s the point really?
Definitely doesn’t need to be remade. The original was done in a very timeless fashion and had a GREAT soundtrack. There are no sacred cows when it comes to remakes obviously. So while this is not Citizen Kane or The Godfather, don’t be surprised when those movies also get remade.
WarlockJA – GO SEE IT NOW. it will change your life. ok not really (unless you died watching it) but it was a great movie.
This is my all time favorite movie just because of the mood the movie sets.
“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.
Removing the style of the movie?
Making it realistic?
How can a gothic movie about an undead avenger have its two main elements removed, and still claim it’s the same movie?
Guess the soundtrack will be swapped out for some Hanna Montana as well, just to make it more likeable for the younger generations
too soon? That film shouldnt be remade if every part of its physical existence was wiped off the planet, and it only lived on as a rarely discussed niece legend. It cannot be improved upon, so why try? yes i may seem like a fanboy, but i belive that film has a perfect balance of action, philossophy and stylism.
Anyway, the crow, like the joker, is cursed. it wont get finished, or someone will die……cant people see that?
Remaking The Crow would be like remaking The Dark Knight. The Crow is an amazing movie and is one of my all time favourites, no matter what they try to do it will just spit in the face of that masterpiece. Haven’t the sequels done enough damage?
@koracas and everyone
koracas your view is almost bang on. but it would not be like remaking the dark knight. it would be like remaking the original tim burton batman. which was fantastic. but the dark knight and begins blew it away.
now,… i can’t say i agree with the director’s take on it so far.
but how about this? if the guys that did the dark knight redid the crow? would that increase your confidenc in the new version?
Please… NO.
*sigh* I will always have a soft spot for The Crow. I don’t place it on a sacred pedestal, although it is among my favorite films. That being said, I don’t think it needs a remake. It was a good movie, it IS a good movie. It has not grown dated in the last 15 years. I don’t care what style it is done in, the original is quite enough.
Why is it that hardly anybody in Hollywood wants to make original films anymore? Or, rather, I imagine there are plenty of people who do, but none of them are the ones greenlighting new projects…Even the projects that haven’t been made into movies already are usually based on other properties (comic books, novels, and video games), rather than being truly new. It seems like almost all of the movies that do come out from major studios that aren’t remakes or adaptations are empty, fluffy comedies or romances. Its a sad state of affairs.
Hollywood wants the “safe bet”, the moneymaker and nothing else. Instead of taking a chance on a new film based on a book or comic they make something like the reboot of the Witch Mountain series. Thank you for shitting on my childhood once again Hollywood and Disney.
Hmmm. I’m divided on this. When The Crow originally came out, I was in a pretty bad place, and I strongly identified with the violence and anger portrayed in the movie, likewise in the book. I watched it over and over again. In the course of that first year that it was released on video, I must have watched it at least 12 times.
I watched it again recently having bought the DVD and found I no longer had the same feeling for the movie. My own anger has bled away, so the it’s no longer a release for me to watch it, I could watch it on it’s own merits. It was a good adaptation of the comic, but by no means faithful to the original material. A new movie COULD be good. However, I remember watching The Crow: City of Angels, and it kinda sucked. The whole point of the story is terrible vengeance being wrought for something terrible that was done to the person who came back. CoA just didn’t have that feel. Yes, he and his son were murdered and that’s terrible, but compared with the gang rape of your fiancée in front of your face as you lie dying by the side of the road/in your apartment (depending on whether you are reading the comic or watching the movie), it really doesn’t generate that same sense of rage.
If they can’t capture that feel of rage that is almost driving The Crow insane, then frankly they shouldn’t bother. And I honestly don’t think that Hollywood with it’s wishy-washy-pandering-to-the-masses attitude has got the balls to do it.
I may be wrong though.
Way, way way way too too soon
damnit, The Crow, with Brandon Lee is classic, classic gold, timeless classic gold
sure a remake, sure the crow movie didn’t actually follow the comic book to a 100%, heck not even to 50%, but it was still good.
As long as they make a new crow movie based on the comic and not a remake of the movie, it might turn out good.