I honestly forgot this film was even happening, but, despite my poor memory, Relativity Media hasn’t given up on their reboot of The Crow. Bloody Disgusting broke the news a while back that Mark Wahlberg was being eyed for the … Continue reading →

Relativity Has Someone in Mind for ‘The Crow’

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I honestly forgot this film was even happening, but, despite my poor memory, Relativity Media hasn’t given up on their reboot of The Crow.

Bloody Disgusting broke the news a while back that Mark Wahlberg was being eyed for the film, but luckily that casting never happened. Now the guys at BD are telling us Relativity is looking to James McAvoy to take on the role of Eric Draven.

There’s no doubt McAvoy is a better actor than Wahlberg, and would bring a great deal of depth to the tortured soul that is Draven, but I still question whether this film is even needed. Didn’t Brandon Lee and director Alex Proyas nail this character the first time around?

F. Javier Gutierrez (Before the Fall) is still attached to direct from a script by Jesse Wigutow (It Runs in the Family), based on James O’Barr’s comic. The new film will once again follow Draven as he avenges his death and the murder of his fiance.

SOURCE: Bloody Disgusting

  • http://www.facebook.com/robb.wolford Robb Wolford

    I’m not exactly sure why THE CROW needs a reboot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekmtkQEGt-Y

  • LAblak22

    I dig it.

  • Dan3659

    Don’t get me wrong no ones a bigger Crow fan than me, I loved the original and Brandon was phenomenal but the same was said of Jak Nicholson and the Joker, look what Heath Ledger achieved with that character.

    I just hope the character is treated with respect and passion the same what Lee did.

    Thats the beauty of a great character, seeing what others can do with it.

  • Dan3659

    What was that YouTube video about?

  • http://www.facebook.com/StephenMCroft Steve Croft

    Well, to be fair, what we got in the movie of the Crow, was not the comic.

    It was a great movie. I love the movie. But it was not the comic. The comic was great. It was sadistic. Draven was nothing like he was in the movie, but I understand the changes for the movie at the time. If they can put a Draven onscreen that is just like the comics? I’ll be all for that. A more drug-addict like Draven, a more violent, a more sadistic, a more hell bent on killing all involved Draven. In the comic they didn’t die the same way as the movie for example. Like I said, I loved the movie, but in no way, was it like the comic. Asides the makeup.

  • Dan3659

    Yep agree, the murders in the comic were just random which made it seem all the more wasteful and cruel.

    But atleast we didn’t get the Michael Jackson musical version of The Crow that was seriously discussed at one point.

  • http://www.facebook.com/StephenMCroft Steve Croft

    Indeed, if we see him killing them with the revolver, then tying the shells in his hair, like he does in the comic, that’ll add to its chill factor for me. I love how he does it. His size and bulk, how he looks so massive in the comics at times, then it all just comes down to a gun…

  • Dan3659

    in the BL version he has the shells in his hair and the scar across the nose, they’re very subtle and hard to see.