I’ve already tackled my reservations about the upcoming remake of “The Crow.” A graphic 3-minute trailer has now been released, via Lionsgate. I can’t say I’m sold yet, but at least director Rupert Sanders won’t be shy in his depiction of the violence.
Lionsgate’s remake of the 1994 cult classic “The Crow” will be released on June 7, 2024. Bill Skarsgård stars in the role of Eric Draven, which was made iconic by the late Brandon Lee in the original. Here’s the synopsis:
Soulmates Eric Draven (Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
Skarsgard is joined in the cast of “The Crow” remake by singer FKA twigs, who plays Draven’s girlfriend/fiancée, and Danny Huston (“Yellowstone”). Sanders (“Snow White and the Huntsman”) is directing, from a screenplay by Oscar nominee Zach Baylin (“King Richard”).
Filming on this one wrapped two years ago.
As I had previously mentioned, the whole raison d’être of the original was Brandon Lee. He’s the reason why it’s had such a healthy shelf life. Lee haunts every frame of 1994’s “The Crow,” which had eerie parallels to his untimely death, a case of art imitating life.
Dariusz Wolski’s noir photography was another iconic component of “The Crow”. Proyas made a fever-dream of a film that I don’t think can really be replicated today — four years after that one, he directed another cult classic, “Dark City.”