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Blade’ director to remake ‘Crow’
By Mark Pollard • December 16, 2008

Tired of remakes? Hollywood isn’t. Variety reports that Stephen Norrington, director of BLADE (1998) is coming out of a five-year exile following the disaster that was LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN to write and direct a remake of THE CROW (1994), the comic-to-film revenger originally starring Brandon Lee.

Relativity Media, the producers of THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM are presently negotiating for rights to produce the film.

The original CROW was directed by Alex Proyas and starred Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee’s son. Based on a comic book series by James O’Barr, the film was a gothic and highly stylized revenger about a musician named Eric Draven who is murdered and comes back to life for payback. It was a surprise hit that would have been Lee’s breakthrough role had he not tragically died during filming as a result of a prop gun accidentally being loaded with live rounds and fired at the actor causing fatal injuries.

Proyas’ 1994 film was followed with three lesser sequels from other filmmakers and a short-lived TV series starring Mark Dacascos

Speaking to Variety, Norrington said his version will be different. “It will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style.”