Stephen Norrington, who directed the first Balde film and hasn't directed a film since League of Extraordinary Gentlemen flopped has signed on to write and direct a reinvention of The Crow, based on the comic created by James O'Barr, says Variety.
Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is negotiating with producer Ed Pressman to acquire the film franchise and finance the film.
Pressman produced the 1994 Alex Proyas-directed adaptation, in which rock musician Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) is murdered trying to rescue his girlfriend from thugs, and returns from the dead one year later to exact vengeance.
"Whereas Proyas' original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style," Norrington said.
I, personally have a problem with this. brandon Lee was amazing in this film. In fact, this was the film that officially put him on the map as an action star with acting range. The gothic depressing look worked for the film as well as the moody Nine Inch Nails soundtrack. To remake this film would be a moral sin and disrespect to what both Brandon lee died for and what Alex Proyas created. I have put up with plenty of remakes over the years, and this is just going too far.
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