The latest reimagining of one man’s unstoppable journey for revenge will be helmed by Rupert Sanders.
Thirty years after the original The Crow became a major cult horror hit, a reboot will be soaring into cinemas this year.
Bill Skarsgård will be taking on the titular role in the film, which is being directed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) and will also star Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter FKA Twigs (Honey Boy) as Skarsgård’s character’s fiancée.
The film originally entered development all the way back in 2008, and has seen various big names including Bradley Cooper and Jason Momoa linked to the lead role of Eric Draven over the years, so fans will no doubt desperately be hoping it lives up to that long production process.
And those fans were recently given their first glimpse at the new film thanks to the release of a trailer, which introduced the new version of Eric and hinted at lots of violence to come in the film.
“When someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead, ” a voice-over is heard saying at one point. “But sometimes something so bad happens that the soul cannot rest. Until you put the wrong things right.”
After the 1994 original, a 1996 sequel, The Crow: City of Angels, ensued, as well as The Crow: Salvation in 2000 and The Crow: Wicked Prayer in 2005.
Ed Pressman, who produced the films, has wanted to bring a reboot of the franchise to the screen for years.
“The Crow has long held an important space in my life,” he said in a statement. “I believe Rupert’s vision and the script he’s developed with Zach [Baylin, co-writer] and our great partners is going to hit home for the Crow fan base and invigorate a new generation to O’Barr’s story of eternal love and redemption.
“Rupert’s vision is full of pathos, and I can’t wait to see The Crow in action and on the screen.”
Producer Molly Hassell added: “When Rupert approached us with his vision for the film, we saw immediately it is an exhilarating, modern story for audiences unlike anything we’ve experienced yet in cinema. Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs are a perfect fit for that vision.”
Read on for everything you need to know about the reboot of The Crow.
The Crow reboot release date
The Crow is currently scheduled to be released on Friday 7th June 2024 – so only a few months more to wait.
The Crow reboot cast
There’s plenty to get excited about when it comes to the star-studded cast of the reboot of The Crow.
Bill Skarsgård will be starring in the movie as the titular character, while Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter FKA Twigs will play the role of Skarsgård’s character’s fiancée, who looks set to get more of a storyline in the new rendition than the character did in the original.
While best known for her music career, FKA Twigs made an acting debut in the 2019 indie Honey Boy.
Skarsgård, meanwhile, is best known for portraying Pennywise in 2017’s It and its sequel. More recently, he played Kro in Marvel’s Eternals cast.
Other stars set to play a part in the film include Isabella Wei (1899), Danny Huston (Yellowstone), Laura Birn (Foundation), Sami Bouajila (Earth and Blood), and Jordan Bolger (Peaky Blinders).
The Crow plot
Based on the comic written and drawn by James O’Barr in the late 1980s, The Crow tells the story of Eric Draven, who is resurrected by a crow and given another chance to take on his and his girlfriend’s murderer – and sets out on an unstoppable path for revenge.
“The Crow is beautiful, dark, poetic and sometimes disturbing,” director Sanders said in a statement. “It is a story of love, loss, grief and revenge. It is a great honour to revisit James O’Barr’s iconic comic and reimagine The Crow as a foreboding voice of today.”
The official synopsis for the new version reads: “Soulmates Eric Draven (Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA Twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them.
“Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.”
Is there a The Crow reboot trailer?
Yes – the first trailer for the new version was released on Thursday 14th March 2024. You can watch it in full below to get a taste of what is to come when the film arrives this summer.
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