The Crow Movie Sequel Almost Had a Female Lead

James O’Barr - the Godhead ofThe Crowgraphic novel - has revealed his unused pitch for a sequel to the 1994 picture adaptation . The Crowis considered one of the best comic book picture of the nineties , thanks to its Gothic visuals , exciting natural action scenes , and the magnetic performance by star Brandon Lee . Tragically , the untried actor was killed during filming in an onrush accident regard a prop gun .

The Crowlater became a enfranchisement with three sequels , a TV series and even a video game . The first subsequence -The gasconade : City Of Angels- featured a newfangled character played by Vincent Perez , return to living to avenge the end of his son . Despite director Tim Pope setting out to make a sequel that set itself apart from the original , the producer detest his first slash and ordered a drastic re - edit to make it closer in tonicity to the first movie . The end termination was a confused peck with jerky editing ; fans ofThe Crowhated it and the film director disowned it .

The Crow’screator James O’Barr has now bring out his nerveless tar for the continuation - and why it went nowhere . O’Barr was verbalize about the slant at the Los Angeles Comic Con ( viaScreen Geek ) and explain the idea come from an old news story about a woman who was killed during her wedding , when a gunfight all of a sudden erupted between cop and gangster :

“ That storey always cling with me and that Clarence Day is presuppose to be the happiest 24-hour interval in someone ’s life and it could n’t get more tragical than that . So my musical theme was “ Okay , what if I take that scenario and call it The gasconade : The Bride ? ” and she comes back . It was super nerveless , she ’s still wearing her wedding garb with barb wire and nail in her forefront . ”

Despite the bright idea , O’Barr find the studio apartment was n’t interested in a sex - turn over sequel :

I compose out a discourse which is 16 pages , it tells you every game point and tells you everything in the story , and they paid me for it . It was like $ 10,000 , they said “ Nah , we ca n’t make this . First of all , no one is going to see an activeness flick with a distaff lead . ” And I was like ” If you do it right , it does n’t matter if it ’s about gender . It just has to be manage right . ” They decline and so , there ’s the script and I did a crowd of exemplification for it as well and they bemuse on the shelf at Miramax .

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O’Barr also mention his approximation has certain similarities toKill Bill , which Miramax bring forth eld later . It ’s a ignominy this concept was n’t used , sinceThe Corvus : City Of Angelsfelt like a empty remaking of the first movie . The other subsequence - which expire straight to videodisk - were even worse .

In news that should be welcome to fans ofThe Crow , O’Barr will be heavy tortuous with theforthcoming remake . This new take on the tale has been trap in development hell for years , with histrion like Bradley Cooper , Luke Evans , and Jack Huston being attached at different time to the lead . After years of holdup , the flick is seemingly actuate ahead with pre - production now . While it has n’t been formally confirmed , it appears Corin Hardy will aim andJustice League ’s Jason Momoa will make for the lead .