“We’re including some music I’d wanted to originally, but just couldn’t get the rights to, some actual Joy Division songs, some vintage Cure songs – I’m still pretty active in the music industry, and there is a lot of neo-goth bands out there, that have that same sound, and I’ve talked to some of them about contributing, and they’re very excited about it.” O’Barr also added this regarding plans for the film’s soundtrack: We’re hoping to begin production later this month, and start shooting in the spring.” I think the studio understands that if they want a Crow ‘franchise’, they have to get it right. I said if you want me involved, this is what I need, I want control of the soundtrack, like with the first one, I want a voice on all the casting, and I want to be able to give my two cents on the script and the characters, and they agreed to everything. “Javier, Luke and I went to the studio and said we won’t do this unless all three of us do it together. Once O’Barr found worthy partners in both Gutierrez and Evans, he knew they had to make this movie together: “I’ve seen him in the make-up too, and he looks great.” But O’Barr does have high hopes for Evans as Eric:
Luke Evans may play Eric, but Brandon Lee will forever be Eric Draven.”Īmen to that. Hopefully, this is one area the new movie being more faithful to the comic will come into play, and Eric won’t be going by Eric Draven in the new film. Eric Draven was a creation of the movie – if you read the comic, Eric and Shelley never have their last names revealed. “Brandon Lee was a friend, and I’d never do anything to hurt his legacy. Fortunately, that’s not what’s happening. Trying to turn the original into something that will appeal to a new generation of fans or aiming to replicate Lee’s work are lose-lose situations. I’ve never read the comics, so can’t speak to that last point, but the fact that this rendition won’t be a copy/paste of the first film is reassuring. This one’s going to be closer to Taxi Driver or a John Woo film, and I think there’s room for both of them – part of the appeal of the Crow comics after all is that they can tell very different stories after all.” My metaphor is that there is a Bela Lugosi Dracula and there’s a Francis Ford Coppola Dracula, they use the same material, but you still got two entirely different films. “We’re not remaking the movie, we’re readapting the book. I want to do your book, literally page-for-page adaptation.” “I don’t want to remake that film, that film is perfect as it is. Even though O’Barr was once convinced no one could top Proyas’ film, he recalled something Gutierrez told him that was a total game changer: Javier Gutierrez is still on board to direct, but based on what O’Barr told Korsgaard’s Commentary (via ComingSoon), it does seem like he’s in.
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