The Crow Reboot

Blade Director, Stephen Norrington, to Remake The Crow

Stephen Norrington has signed on to pen a remake of the underground comic book turned goth-cult film franchise The Crow.


Norrington started out as a model maker and creature effects crew member on such films as Aliens and The Witches. The feature film adaptation of Blade launched his directorial career and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen sent him into a five year hiatus.


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.


Speaking of his decision to tackle the remake, 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.”


The Crow was created by James O’Barr in 1989 and published by Caliber Comics (the trade paperback is still available on Amazon for around $13). The story followed a young rock musician named Eric who is murdered trying to save his fiance Shelly from a gang of street thugs. Eric is shot in the head and paralyzed, unable to help his girlfriend as she is beaten and raped. A year later a crow pecks Eric’s tomb and he is somehow resurrected, and goes on a mission to seek vengeance on the murderers. Alex Proyas’ film is notable for it’s goth style, hard-edged soundtrack and the death of the film’s star