Stephen Norrington departs 'The Crow' remake
Fri, October 22, 2010 
Well, that didn't take long. Days after word broke that the makers behind The Crow remake had offered the lead role to Mark Wahlberg, news comes that director Stephen Norrington, who has been attached to the film since December 2008 (almost two years), has left the project. Apparently, Norrington didn't like the fact that a name actor wanted to completely overhaul the script that Norrington and writer Nick Cave had been working on. No word on if that actor was Wahlberg (likely not), who will replace Norrington, or if the film will even get made now.
To tell you the truth, I'm not too bummed about this. While I think Norrington is a fantastic visual director with great sense of storytelling, the original Crow will always have a place in my heart due to brillance of the late Brandon Lee. Now that was an actor. Unless the producers are able to get a great director (John Dahl maybe?) and actor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt comes to mind), don't even bother trying to touch Lee's performance or the original film.
Reader Comments (1)
I couldn't "see" Wahlberg as The Crow, maybe Top Dollar. Anyway, it seems that it had nothing to do about Wahlberg, if he was even approached at all.
While I would not mind seeing another Crow film -especially if they rebooted/remade it into something more closer to the James O'Barr graphic novel - but that's about it. After all, all the sequels were lagging due to "been there, done that"- in addition, revenge pictures have nothing much at stake other than payback. There is no suspense. The people who wronged are cold souls with no redemption (hey, now there you go-! What if "Crow" went after someone who had remorse? Or -and I think it was in one of the Crow stories- he woke up 100 years later and punished the descendants of his killers! I may not been big on 'Stairway To Heaven- but that cliffhanger was great- Eric accused of the death of Shelly! See? The point is You do Something bold )
But ...no.
There's nothing new, nothing interesting. Live the supernatural in, you run risk of repeating the gags.
Take it out, you miight as well remake Death Wish