Great news. I wasn't able to find anything with a google search.


Part of me is very uncomfortable seeing this film remade, but another part of me concedes that the original had limitations, and it has the potential to be outdone if done correctly.

It was on a small-ish comics new site I saw it.

Sometimes those small sites get a nugget that the others don't or just ignore.

It was off of a smallish comics news site.

I'm not sure the remake is necessarily dead in the water, though.

Two and a half years later and there is movement on this again, this time with Jason Momoa supposedly attached as the lead.

-M

I don't think you can remake The Crow; through a combination of artistry and tragic circumstance, it's a very special piece of culture.

Desperation to create franchise cash cows, based on past successful models.  Almost no one in Hollywood is willing to take a chance on anything new.  They are constantly looking at pre-sold ideas, instead, with built in name recognition.  It's the same BS that fuels Wall Street, with branding and an emphasis on short term profits.

Really, the Crow was lightning in a bottle.  It was a minor comic, created out of anger and grief that enfused the work.  It got a major boost in profile, thanks to Kevin Eastman throwing his money around, with Tundra.  That led to a movie deal, which led to casting Brandon Lee, who seized upon the opportunity as a break out role and really worked his butt off for the film, until tragedy struck and he was killed in a horrible accident (aided by incompetent armorers, on set).  His death suddenly turned a mid-range genre movie into a big news story.  It also coincided with a cultural fad built around gothic imagery, heavy metal (and subgenre spinoff) music, and a generation coming of age in a world undergoing big change (and building up Millennial fear).  It was kind of a perfect storm.  It helped that the movie is, mostly, really good.  Watching it, you could see how much Brandon had grown as an actor, though whether he would escape the action genre is up for debate (this was still, primarily, action-oriented).

Nothing could live up to that and the sequels were derivative stories, with less and less charismatic leads, to to mention a pretty mediocre tv series.  O'Barr was never able to really return to the material with any success either, or create anything else with the same power.  It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime works.

It's also part of the reason why I don't think we will ever get a Sandman movie that will be remotely as good as the comics or even passable.  I think they are also a bit of a product of their time, though with a wider appeal.  I think the more time that passes, the more that ship has sailed.  I don't think it has lost its brilliance; but, it has lost its uniqueness.  Still, if you had asked me in 1992 if we would ever get a decent, let alone really good Captain America movie, I would have said no.  I also would have said, "Never" to the idea of Marvel having a series of interconnected films, building to a major crossover.  All it takes is someone with the vision and drive to make it happen.