Speaking to Fangoria at the Sundance Film Festival, "The Crow" reboot director Corin Hardy (who, much like the original "Crow" director Alex Proyas, comes from a short film/music video environment) told fans what they can expect from the new film.
"It's still early days on that ('The Crow'), but what I can say for now is that I'm a huge, huge fan of both the first film and James O'Barr's graphic novel, he said. "I was obsessed with 'The Crow'when I was growing up. When I heard about the remake, what I thought could be very interesting today, 20 years later, especially with this whole Marvel Universe that's happened, is that 'The Crow' always stood as an outsider to me.
"I kind of felt he would be the right character for me if I got the chance to do it. And now that I have gotten the chance to do it, I'm very much going back to the graphic novel, particularly looking into the illustrations themselves as much as the story, and picking out all those beautiful ideas and details that haven't really been used yet."
Hardy continued on, summing up his particular vision for this version of the film: "I also want to open the story up in such a way that 'The Crow' is now part of a world where there are the Marvel movies and the 'Dark Knight' movies. I intend it to be incredibly emotional and brutal, and all the things you'd want from a 'Crow' film. I want to make a movie that I would have wanted to see, as a huge fan of 'The Crow.'"
While I like what Hardy is saying here in principle, I am still of the mind that the original film is rather excellent and there's really no need for a remake. At all.
