Tuesday, December 16, 2008

A Sign

They're remaking The Crow

Stephen Norrington has signed on to write and direct a reinvention of "The Crow," based on the comic created by James O’Barr.

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"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.
There are just so many reactions I have to this:
  • for one, they'll never be able to cast someone as cool, yet clearly evil, as Michael Wincott--"Quick impression for you: Caw! Caw! Bang! F***, I'm dead!" (and no way can they replace Ernie Hudson, either)
  • isn't this too dang soon?
  • "realistic"? "documentary style"? Aren't those other ways of just saying they'll use a shaky camera like Blair Witch or Cloverfield? Or is it just going to last for 3 weeks like a Ken Burns project?
  • isn't this too dang soon?
  • Not only was Lee great as Eric Draven, but the circumstances around his death and the making of the film added a certain aura to the whole thing that you just can't duplicate for the remake (unless Norrington has a capital crime in mind)
  • But honestly, the thing I keep thinking is this: they're remaking a movie made when I was in college. COLLEGE. There's no way around it now, popular culture has declared me old.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hollywood be cursed - too many remakes, not enough original stuff. The Crow is a classic because. The revamped noughties try hard redo (wannabe) will be quickly forgotten - unless someone accidently shoots the lead actor dead.


kletois

Lockheed said...

Ungh... this is... bad news. The Crow was crazy good weird out of the limits whoa. The lame sequels should have taught anyone that the project is cursed (even if i dont believe in curses)