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‘The Crow’ Director Believes Remake Hurts Brandon Lee’s Legacy

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This June, a long-gestating remake of the 1994 Brandon Lee comedian e-book movie “The Crow” will lastly be launched following numerous false begins over time with variations meant to star actors like Jack Huston and Jason Momoa. The Rupert Sanders-directed (“Ghost In The Shell”) model stars rising actor Invoice Skarsgård (the spitting picture of the unique art work from James O’Barr’s comedian e-book) as a brand new tackle the undead vigilante Eric Draven. Nevertheless, Alex Proyas (“Darkish Metropolis”), the director of the unique movie, isn’t loving the concept of a remake. Posting on Fb, Proyas shared his perception that this new film would tarnish the legacy of Lee, who died tragically after a gun-centered stunt went improper in April 1993 (accidents and security considerations plagued the manufacturing main as much as Lee’s demise).

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“I actually don’t get any pleasure from seeing negativity about any fellow filMMAkers’ work. And I’m sure the forged and crew actually had all good intentions, as all of us do on any movie,” Proyas wrote in a Fb put up within the wake of the movie’s trailer launch. “So it pains me to say any extra on this matter, however I believe the fan’s response speaks volumes. ‘The Crow’ is not only a film. 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.”

A key situation with Proyas’ comprehensible sentiment is that Lionsgate’s “The Crow” is definitely the fifth characteristic movie incarnation— following “The Crow: Metropolis of Angels” (1996), “The Crow: Salvation” (2000), “The Crow: Depraved Prayer” (2005) — and this would be the second Eric Draven recasting (Mark Dacascos performed Draven within the short-lived tv sequence “The Crow: Stairway To Heaven”). Whereas these three are moderately forgettable B-movies, Proyas by no means appeared to have points with any of them for some purpose.

Right here’s how Lionsgate formally describes their new remake:

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 possibility 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 useless to place the improper issues proper.

What’s attention-grabbing is the mature tone and visible type of “The Crow” iNFLuenced many subsequent style motion pics as screenwriter David S. Goyer labored on “The Crow: Metropolis of Angels” (Earlier than tackling the “Blade” and “The Darkish Knight” trilogies) and would hyperlink up with Proyas on his mind-bending “Darkish Metropolis” (which shares some parts and even units with “The Matrix”).

“The Crow” will fly into theaters on June 7, and you’ll view that newest trailer beneath.

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