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    Image of MISS MERCY STREET MISS MERCY STREET
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    "It will be an actor you've heard of, yes. We're not ruling anything out. We're looking at both, with the very well known and the "very talented but they may not be quite there yet."

    Very well known: Shia LeBoeuf.

    Not quite there yet: Zak Efron, Joseph Gordon Levitt, and the werewolf kid from New Moon.

    Don't shoot the messenger. I'm just passing on the rumour I heard.
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    Edited by MISS MERCY STREET at 11/23/09 5:55 PM MISS MERCY STREET was starred MISS MERCY STREET was unstarred
    Image of fatetwister64 fatetwister64
    11/23/09

    @MISS MERCY STREET: The Beef strikes again!!
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment fatetwister64 was starred fatetwister64 was unstarred
    Image of mustlovebooknerd mustlovebooknerd
    11/23/09

    @MISS MERCY STREET: Are you kidding? Zac Efron is huge. Everyone knows who he is and his pictures were everywhere for years (maybe they still are - I'm still ogling the old ones). But please god, he may be my husband, but I don't even want to THINK that he'd be considered for this. The Crow he is not.
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment mustlovebooknerd was starred mustlovebooknerd was unstarred
    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    Im getting a kinda 'If it aint broke' vibe from this whole debacle!!!

    Its Lee's swan song, its gritty, dark, funny and twisted. Everything points towards leaving it the hell alone.

    They want to make it darker!! Maybe film the whole thing with the fuckin lights out!! Idiots.
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    Image of PrincessIncognita PrincessIncognita
    11/23/09

    @#c17057068: Seriously!! The original was like a lightning strike - beautiful and destructive. No way they can ever recapture it.
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment Edited by PrincessIncognita at 11/23/09 5:38 PM PrincessIncognita was starred PrincessIncognita was unstarred
    Image of aravis3 aravis3
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Shatner Scene You Never Saw In Abrams' Star Trek
    To me, it sounded like Majel Roddenberry only did a couple of responses in the computer voice...the other responses didn't even sound like her, but I could be wrong...Shatner totally should've been in this movie!
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment aravis3 was starred aravis3 was unstarred
    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    well this should help hot topic sales.
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    Image of tipsymongoose tipsymongoose
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    Is there some vast fanbase I'm not aware of that's actually waiting for another Crow movie?
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    TemporalSword promoted this comment tipsymongoose was starred tipsymongoose was unstarred
    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    11/23/09

    @tipsymongoose: Since when did a fanbase (or lack thereof) actually drive anything Hollywood does?
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    Image of deliciousburglar deliciousburglar
    11/23/09

    @tipsymongoose: lots of people want it remade so they can have another cheap halloween costume fad.
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    AngryEddy promoted this comment deliciousburglar was starred deliciousburglar was unstarred
    Image of kelz kelz
    11/23/09

    @TemporalSword: Serenity? Boondock Saints?
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    TemporalSword promoted this comment kelz was starred kelz was unstarred
    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    11/23/09

    @kelz: You might have me with Serenity. Outraged fans and dvd sales I think did play a major role in getting that movie made. Not familiar enough with the Boondock Saints to know about that one.
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    11/23/09

    @tipsymongoose:
    Yes
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    phoghat was starred phoghat was unstarred
    Image of phoghat phoghat
    11/23/09

    @deliciousburglar:
    Lots of emo kids
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    Image of Slappy_san Slappy_san
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    Oh brother. I have no problems with remakes etc....but totally different makeup and a "dark superhero"?
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    TemporalSword promoted this comment Slappy_san was starred Slappy_san was unstarred
    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    11/23/09

    @Slappy_san: Yeah. The Crow isn't about superhero-ness and saving people or stopping maniacal supervillains. It's about revenge and loss.
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    Image of mordicai mordicai
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    I'm hoping for a girl crow.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    11/23/09

    @mordicai: That might not be too bad, actually. Would definitely send a message that this is a different Crow, but she'd have to be actually written as a woman, not as a guy who's just stunt-casted by a woman.
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    11/23/09

    @TemporalSword: @mordicai:
    Summer Glau just called her agent.
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    MISS MERCY STREET promoted this comment Edited by Im_your_Huckleberry at 11/23/09 11:26 AM Im_your_Huckleberry was starred Im_your_Huckleberry was unstarred
    Image of mordicai mordicai
    11/23/09

    @TemporalSword: I'm hoping one good thing that might come from this whole Twilight situation is that Hollywood might figure out that movies can have sci-fi/fantasy movies with female roles that aren't silly add-ons or, like you say, stuntcasting.
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    So, by "moves forward with casting", you mean they're still looking for some sort of person, an actor perhaps, to play the role - but we don't have the slightest idea who that person is...right? That's about all I gathered from this.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    yawn
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    Image of dicksson dicksson
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    Not a remake, it's a "Relaunch".

    "...You know how Batman is compared to Batman Begins."

    Does every douche hollywood producer/director say this now?
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    11/23/09

    @dicksson: It's not even a correct comparison. The Batmans were still about the SAME characters, he says this will be a different crow. I understand what he's trying to say, that the tone will be different, but the original Crow is hardly the same as Burton's Batman, so how much different can he really get?
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    11/23/09

    @TemporalSword:
    Here's the ticket. The Crow was a "supernatural" creature. After he was killed he came back from the dead to avenge his girlfriend's and his death. What I think that they'll do is turn him into a superhero, origin story and all.
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    Image of Tyrunn Tyrunn
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    "It's really a whole relaunch of the franchise, much more of a dark superhero type."

    Please don't be Bale, please don't be Bale, please don't be Bale!
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    AngryEddy promoted this comment Tyrunn was starred Tyrunn was unstarred
    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    11/23/09

    @Tyrunn: WHAT DON'T YOU F%!#ING UNDERSTAND!?!
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    Edited by AngryEddy at 11/23/09 10:48 AM AngryEddy was starred AngryEddy was unstarred
    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    11/23/09

    @Tyrunn: 1. We're done professionally, you and me.
    2. DARK. MORE DARK THAN THE CROW?!
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    Image of moifauxmail moifauxmail
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    James O'Barr is a really nice guy. The Crow graphic novel is about as intensely personal a work as you can get that just happened to explode into this cultural phenomenon. I saw him speak over the summer in Chicago and he's as humble and decent a creator as I've ever met, talented as all get out too.

    This nonsense about a Dark Superhero? Like Batman Begins? Come on. Pull the other one son.

    I hope James is getting a nice big check and moves a shit-ton of books. That would be nice.
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment moifauxmail was starred moifauxmail was unstarred
    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    11/23/09

    @moifauxmail: I attended a special screening of the Crow before it came out in '94 with O'Barr in attendance. The original novel he did was a way to deal with his wife's death, and then he'd become fast friends with Brandon and then when he died... You never saw such a sad dude, but he was happy the way the first movie came out. How can anything compete with that? Still have my signed copy of the novel.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    This is like re-doing The Dark Knight and re-casting Heath Ledger.

    Hollyweird must be bats**t insane.
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    Image of ExtensionOfBob ExtensionOfBob
    11/23/09

    @FrankenPC: Ehhhh...I don't think that comparison holds water b\c I think comparing Ledger to Nicholson is already comparing apples to oranges....and they've pretty much said they're doing something completely different from the first Crow movie...

    ...so it would be like rebooting Batman (again) and not having the Joker in it at all, but a different villain, if we're going to use the Batman comparison.

    If I'm reading them correctly.
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    FrankenPC promoted this comment ExtensionOfBob was starred ExtensionOfBob was unstarred
    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/23/09

    @ExtensionOfBob: Hmm...yeah. Still, the Crow WAS Brandon. I just can't imagine anyone else in that role.
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    11/23/09

    @FrankenPC: Apparently you didn't see Edward Furlong's dramatic turn in the role. He made it his own!
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/23/09

    @AngryEddy: No, I never saw it. I'll have to check it out.
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    11/23/09

    @FrankenPC: Oh no no no... That was sarcasm. Please do not check it out.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/23/09

    @AngryEddy: LOL! You almost sent me on a fools errand! I heard the second movie was really bad, so I avoided it.
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    11/23/09


    @FrankenPC: The second movie is actually pretty bad. Sadly, Furlong's Crow is actually the fourth entry in the series - and the second one to go direct to DVD. It is mind-blowingly bad. However, it also has the ever-hilarious Tara Reid doing her best to "act" and David Boreanaz looking completely out of place in what I believe to be the scene-chewingest role this side of Burt Reynolds in Dukes of Hazzard... From start to finish, it is a trainwreck of the highest order.

    Also, there was a slight casting error with Furlong to begin with. He looks like one of those teenagers who has no business going trick or treating on Halloween...
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/23/09

    @AngryEddy: "The Emo". They just gave it the wrong title.

    Wait, there were FOUR? Who are these producers and where are their brains?
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    Image of Barnabus Barnabus
    11/23/09

    @AngryEddy: Helena Bonham Carter looks like shit on that poster.
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    Image of Chip Skylark of Space Chip Skylark of Space
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting

    Wow- looks like the front man for DISCIPLINE, Matthew Parmenter. I bet Matt sings better too.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....................

    Please for the love of God someone tell these idiots that every Crow movie after the first one sucked it long and hard. This is one of those times where you simply cannot catch lightning in a bottle a second time. Let it go. Let this franchise rest in peace already.

    Me to Hollywood: Just fucking stop with the remakes, retcons, revisionist bullshit already. Look we get it. You're trying to go with the 'sure thing' that's already got proven box office results, instead of taking a chance with something completely new. Well I'm telling you, take that chance. Try something new.
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    Edited by Jrsy Devil's Advocate® at 11/23/09 10:09 AM Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    11/23/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: (slow...clap) Spot on!
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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® promoted this comment Im_your_Huckleberry was starred Im_your_Huckleberry was unstarred
    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    11/23/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Here here!
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    Image of SpammerOvTheGods SpammerOvTheGods
    11/23/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: why so serious?

    #@!
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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® promoted this comment SpammerOvTheGods was starred SpammerOvTheGods was unstarred
    Image of Craig Dawson Craig Dawson
    11/23/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®:
    I definitely appreciate original ideas but as far as i am concerned the new Batman movies were far better than the ones from the 90's, so if they hold up to that kind of quality for a new Crow movie I am all for it.
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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® promoted this comment Craig Dawson was starred Craig Dawson was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/23/09

    @Craig Dawson: Well I agree with you with on the Batman films (I still like the first Batman, the rest of that time-frame were crap) however I don't see any point in continuing this. With Batman you can tell a new story each time. He's got a rogue's gallery of villains to do battle with. The Crow story had a specific beginning, middle & ending with Eric & Shelly. Everything after it as been 'The Crow, except with some other guy'. There's nothing else new to tell or expand upon. They're just variations of the original. It's a closed story. If they want to build a franchise using comic books (or graphic novels) as the source there's plenty more left out there to choose from.
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    Edited by Jrsy Devil's Advocate® at 11/23/09 1:40 PM Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    Image of Craig Dawson Craig Dawson
    11/23/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®:
    Very true that there is not a whole lot to expand upon.
    I have a feeling they are going to try and start a new franchise by giving his origin story and return from the dead in the first movie but instead of allowing him to defeat the bad guy and rest in peace by the end of the first movie they will probably stretch it to 3 movies and he fights new villains and that same villain that killed him through out the 3 movies. That seems to be what they are doing in these types of comic book movie franchises.
    So they definitely can go majorly wrong with this reboot, but we can only hope they make a new Crow movie with the quality of the newer Batman's.

    I also liked the first Batman movie from the late 80's but I also feel the two newer ones are much better.
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    Image of jmg134 jmg134
    11/23/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: I actually like "Batman Returns" cuz of Michelle Pfiefher's turn as Catwomen. I thought she did an amazing job with that character.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/23/09

    @jmg134: She was fine. The Penguin's character was melded into some other character that Tim Burton must have dreamt about. Also there wasn't anything cool about a penguin army. It's not like they were sharks with frikken' lasers..
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    11/23/09

    @Craig Dawson: I have to admit I did like the series, Crow: Stairway to Heaven. It had a good premise with Eric's character not just getting vengeance but also having to redeem his own prior bad acts so that he could move on and join Shelly. That was an interesting angle to explore unfortunately the series was canceled prematurely.
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