‘The Crow’ Finally Takes Flight With Bill Skarsgard As Its Star

April 2, 2022

Written by Kelli Marchman McNeely

Kelli Marchman McNeely is the owner of HorrorFuel.com. She is an Executive Producer of "13 Slays Till Christmas" which is out on Digital and DVD and now streaming on Tubi. She has several other films in the works. Kelli is an animal lover and a true horror addict since the age of 9 when she saw Friday the 13th. Email: horrorfuelinfo@gmail.com

After many attempts, it seems a new The Crow movie is finally taking flight. But, “It can’t rain all the time..” The movie has found new life with Ghost in the Shell director Rupert Sanders at the helm with a screenplay from  Zach Baylin, who also wrote the Oscar-nominated film, King Richard.

 

While a release date has not been announced, the star has. IT and Devil All the Time actor Bill Skarsgard will be playing Eric Draven, the role made iconic by Brandon Lee. Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter FKA twigs (Honeyboy) will also star, according to the press release.

 

Photo Credit: Aidan Zamiri

 

The film has already begun pre-production with production scheduled to begin this summer with a budget in the range of $50 million. The movie is being described as a “modern reimagining” of the graphic novels created by James O’Barr.

 

The Crow will be produced by Victor Hadida (Resident Evil and Silent Hill franchises), Molly Hassell (Braven starring Jason Momoa, Terminal starring Margot Robbie), John Jencks (Honest Thief, Guns Akimbo), and Edward R. Pressman (The Crow starring Brandon Lee, Academy Award-winner Wall Street, American Psycho). Production companies are Hassell Free Productions, Electric Shadow Company, Davis Films, and Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation, in association with 30WEST.

 

The Crow centers on Eric Draven, resurrected from the dead with supernatural abilities one year after he and his wife were viciously murdered by a gang and Draven sets out for vengeance.

 

“The Crow is beautiful, dark, poetic, and sometimes disturbing,” says director Rupert Sanders. “It is a story of love, loss, grief, and revenge. It is a great honor to revisit James O’Barr’s iconic comic and reimagine The Crow as a foreboding voice of today.”

 

“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,” said producer Molly Hassell.

 

“The Crow has long held an important space in my life,” said producer Ed Pressman. “I believe Rupert’s vision and the script he’s developed with Zach 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.”

 

Over the years, actors who were supposedly set to star in the movies that never took flight include Jason Momoa, Bradley Cooper, and Tom Hiddleston.  Brandon Lee who starred in the original 1994 film sadly lost his life on set when a stunt with a gun went very wrong.

 

Here’s a look back at the original trailer.

 

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