Blade Director To Remake The Crow

Blade Director To Remake The Crow

By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2008 10:24 pm EST

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Norrington told Variety that the film left him feeling “demoralized by that experience”, and the accomplished sculptor spent the last five years writing and working on his art. He did some illustration work on Blade: Trinity and some creature effects work on Feast. A remake of Clash of the Titans was supposed to be his big return but he was unable to excite Warner Bros with his take on the project.

So why remake The Crow? Norrington says he has a completely new take on the character. While Alex Proyas’ original 1994 film was “gloriously gothic and stylized” Norrington describes his take as “realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style.” While I’ve never understood the point of a reboot which is too faithful to the original, I’m not sure that dropping The Crow’s goth style is the way to proceed with this reinvention. Wasn’t that largely the whole appeal of Proyas’ film?