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‘The Crow’ Creator Backs New Adaptation, Has Seen Luke Evans In Makeup!

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9 years ago

October 31, 2014

The new incarnation of The Crow is set to rise at the upcoming AFM with F. Javier Gutierrez at the helm and Luke Evans in the title role.

Creator James O’Barr talked with Korsgaard’s Commentary where he fully gets behind the reboot, and reveals that he’s seen Evans in the Crow makeup!

What I like about what he says is that they’e going back to his source material (for the fifth time) with the new film, and leaving the Brandon Lee-starrer in its own world.

” ‘I don’t want to remake that film, that film is perfect as it is,’ ” Gutierrez told O’Barr. ” ‘I want to do your book, literally page-for-page adaptation. ‘”

“We’re not remaking the movie, we’re readapting the book,” he clarifies. “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. 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.”

Speaking to reinventing the character: “Brandon Lee was a friend, and I’d never do anything to hurt his legacy. Eric Draven was a creation of the movie – if you read the comic, Eric and Shelley never have their last names revealed. 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. Luke Evans may play Eric, but Brandon Lee will forever be Eric Draven.”

And speaking to the Evans as new Crow: “I’ve seen him in the make-up too, and he looks great.”

Evans will play a man brutally murdered whom comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée’s murder.

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Melissa Barrera and Bailee Madison Want Roles in the ‘Scary Movie’ Reboot

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April 24, 2024

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Pictured: Melissa Barrera in 'Abigail'

It was announced two weeks ago that Paramount is resurrecting the Scary Movie spoof franchise with a brand new reboot movie, which will likely arrive in theaters next year.

The new movie, a joint venture between Paramount and Miramax that will technically be the sixth installment in the franchise, is expected to go into production this coming Fall.

We don’t yet know who will be writing, directing or starring in the Scary Movie reboot, but two actors in particular have already expressed an interest in joining the franchise.

The first is Melissa Barrera, who can currently be seen in theaters in Radio Silence’s bloody horror movie Abigail. Barrera is of course also the star of Scream and Scream VI, which kind of makes her a perfect candidate to lampoon herself in a Scary Movie reboot.

“I always loved those movies,” Melissa Barrera tells the website Inverse. “When I saw it announced, I was like, ‘Oh, that would be fun.’ That would be so fun to do.”

The actress adds, “They have the iconic cast that did it, so we’ll see what goes on with that. I’m just excited to see a new one.”

In a tweet posted last night, Bailee Madison (The Strangers: Prey at Night, the upcoming “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School”) also threw her hat in the running.

Madison tweets, “Random but scary movie 6 hit me up cause I just feel like we’d have fun okay bye.” Your move, Paramount. And make sure you call Anna Faris and Regina Hall too.

Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, the first Scary Movie was released in 2000, just four years after Wes Craven reinvigorated the horror genre with his meta slasher masterpiece, Scream.

The film parodied horror movies of the time including Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Blair Witch Project, and the horror-comedy spoof scared up $278 million at the worldwide box office. The success of that first Scary Movie paved the way for an entire franchise of horror spoofs, five of them in total released between 2000 and 2013.