“Realistic, hard-edged and mysterious”
We’re well beyond The Crow‘s ten year anniversary. And you know what that means? A remake, er, or reinvention or re-imagining – or whatever those crazy cats wearing the producer caps are calling it these days. Variety reports Relativity Media and producer Ed Pressman have connected with a director to embark on a reinvention of James O’Barr’s brooding comic book property.
Blade‘s Stephen Norrington is the man stepping up to the plate. It will be his first film since The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003. If you take a gander at his credits since then you’ll find he’s been dabbling in sculpture having worked on Exorcist: The Beginning and Feast. He was once attached to the Clash of the Titans redo, but he ultimately parted ways with Warner Bros.
Norrington tells Variety that his vision will be a departure from Alex Proyas’ 1994 in that it will be “realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style.”
Producer Pressman has overseen three Crow-related sequels since the first entry, starring the late Brandon Lee, as well as a television series. The Crow told of a man who was brutally murdered with his lover. He returns from the grave to avenge their deaths.
Source: Variety
