The Crow reboot producer is surprised the original filmmakers aren't more accepting of the new movie

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk⁩ to ⁨movies@lemm.ee⁩

https://www.joblo.com/the-crow-reboot-producer-surprised/

Unfortunately, the film hasn’t exactly been accepted with open arms, with some members of the original movie even speaking out against it, which came as a surprise to producer Molly Hassell.

“It should make people proud,” Hassell told THR. “I’m surprised it hasn’t made the original filmmakers more proud, because it’s a step in a different direction, but it’s a necessary step to deal with the age-old themes of love and loss.“

This is the only bit of new news. The article then digs up older comments from the original film’s director Alex Proyas and another screenwriter both being critical of this new version.

I’m willing to give the new version a chance but the way these articles are worded, it feels like they’re willing the new version to fail regardless. I have a gut feeling this film won’t do very well and then hit streaming services quite quickly.

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rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Can’t wait for us to finish remaking every film, so we can start remaking the remakes. Fucking write a new movie, bunch of actual hacks

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- Maven@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Freaky Friday (2018) is a remake of Freaky Friday (2003) which was a remake of Freaky Friday (1976) which was an adaptation of the book Freaky Friday (1972).
  
  Thankfully though Freaky Friday (2018) is no longer canon as Freakier Friday (2025) is a sequel to Freaky Friday (2003).
  
  Oh and don’t forget about Disney’s Freak Friday (1995) which was made for TV and premiered on ABC.
  
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  - rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh god I hate it 😂
    
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- Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hollywood has been profiting off of remakes basically from the very beginning. Here’s a short list of some of the most popular. And before movies, you might be shocked to learn that stage performers regularly “remade” productions originally performed by other groups. Anyone performing Hamlet or that Scottish play after The Globe burned downed is a fucking hack apparently.
  
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  - Maven@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This list has Blade Runner 2049 listed as a remake??? Did I miss something when I watched it??
    
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  - warbond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I found out recently that Anyone But You was just a remake of Much Ado About Nothing, which I mean… Is there anything Will Shakespeare hasn’t touched!?
    
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  - rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nah man, I don’t have an issue with doing other people’s plays etc, same way as I don’t have an issue with cover bands :)
    
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SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It looks like Jared Leto’s reimagination of The Crow.

Why can’t people come up with original ideas?

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Ezergill@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m kinda confused. Why do so many people (including this article) treat this as a reboot of the first movie, when the creatives have said that it’s another adaptation of the original graphic novel? And why is everyone suddenly so protective of the legacy of Brandon Lee, when there’s already been a direct sequel to his movie and a separate TV series?

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- janonymous@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think there is enough precedence to come to the belief that remakes are bad in and of itself. Big movie companies do like to put their money in already established or at least known franchises or names. This leads to them forcing a movie they think should make money rather than letting the creatives follow their passion, which may or may not lead to better movies. And then there is also the typical knee-jerk online reaction in play here. People like to be dismissive and jaded about things. I think it’s partly because we have a lot of reasons to be jaded, but it’s also because it’s easy and it makes you feel smarter. I believe in most cases people aren’t actually informed enough to form a real opinion, they just like to shit on things online to make themselves feel better.
  
  In my late teens and early twenties I had a phase where I basically disliked every new movie. I thought old movies where perfect and new movies where all just cash grabs with the exception of indie movies. After a bit of growing and working in a creative industry myself, I now know that this is bullshit. There are lots of reasons why movies turn out bad, but in most cases the people working on them are trying their best and genuinely want to make something great. With that in mind I’ve become much more open and appreciative. It’s so easy to shit on things online. It is very, very hard to make a movie, even a bad one.
  
  Sure, sometimes the movie turns out bad and yes the chances of a reboot, remake, sequel or prequel to be bad is higher. But it might also turn out to be a great movie in it’s own right! To be honest lots of old movies did not age well and could use a remake. If you don’t like it, the original movie is still there for you to watch instead.
  
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- kux@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  i think largely because it’s called ‘the crow’ rather than ‘the crow: straight to video’ or similar colon title. none of the sequels or spinoffs or whatever they were affected the cult following of the original film/books because nobody gave a shit if they’d even heard of them in the first place, curiosities at best. this one has some real money/clout behind it and is consequentially more disruptive
  
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  - Ezergill@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I guess you’re right. Although I’ve never heard the TV series to be referred by its full title, it has decent reviews (and it was my first introduction to the character).
    
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Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I was 100% unaware this was days from launching. I’ve seen no advertisements or trailers. The fact that they aren’t marketing this should say enough.

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thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“Why don’t they like it when we dig up Brandon Lee and take a shit in his mouth?” /s

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sartalon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This guy really is a fucking moron.

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kux@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
if you remade a clockwork orange with alex as a fan of my chemical romance instead of beethoven nobody would be convinced by your ‘it’s a new interpretation of the book’ defence either

that said i read somewhere that the trailer music isn’t the same as the actual soundtrack. so maybe it mightn’t be that bad. but he still looks like an emo twink joker

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- yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  So Jared Leto’s joker
  
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VelvetStorm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Can’t they just write a new fucking movie? Does every god dam movie coming out need to be a remake or reboot or a movie based on a book or TV show?

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UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Well guys, as this article states, it looks like Borderlands all over again. It’ll probably be on streaming by the end of the week! 😜

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Twinkletoes@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
His haircut bugs me

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D61@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

brand-new reboot

Wait… was there a previous reboot? Outside of the “The Crow: The TV Series” that I stopped watching after a few episodes… I thought I had seen all the movies. Was there a previous reboot that I missed?

seek merciless revenge… to put the wrong things right

You get one or the other, you don’t get both in a, The Crow, movie.

A suggested article linked on the page that the OP links to…

Bill Skarsgård not happy with The Crow’s ending

Bill Skarsgård has expressed unhappiness with how The Crow ends, suggesting it may be leaving the opportunity for a sequel.

There we go…

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- UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  We’ve had:
  
  The Crow
  
  The Crow: City of Angels
  
  The Crow: Salvation
  
  The Crow: Wicked Prayer
  
  All separate stories with the same premise. Wicked Prayer is truly awful. I watched it once, lent it to a friend and never asked for it back!
  
  And yes, you’re right, there was also one season (22 episodes) of The Crow: Stairway to Heaven. Which was Eric Draven’s story expanded into a television series.
  
  Which leads us to this new film which is Eric Draven once again.
  
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