The Crow Is Getting Roasted By the Original Film’s Director

To accidental 2024 has been a large twelvemonth for costly movie plaything and soul-crushing container bureau bombs would beryllium a spot of an understatement. Although the live-action Borderlands movie presently remains the record-holder for the biggest container bureau weaponry of the year, the arsenic panned caller adaptation of The Crow—starring Bill Skarsgård and FKA twigs—has the favoritism of being roasted by the archetypal film’s director.

According to Variety, The Crow raked successful $4.6 cardinal astatine the container bureau connected its opening weekend, making it a certified weaponry considering its $50 cardinal accumulation budget. While this cinematic shortcoming is detrimental for each parties involved, Alex Proyas, the manager of the 1994 Crow adaptation, has been posting similar a madman connected his authoritative Facebook page, slating the caller movie arsenic a prophetic container bureau bomb.

“I thought the remake was a cynical cash-grab,” Proyas said successful 1 post. “Not overmuch currency to drawback it seems.”

If Proyas’ scathing reappraisal wasn’t enough, the remainder of his Facebook leafage is awash with links to antagonistic reviews of the movie that, arsenic Proyas puts it, “is a spot similar flogging a dormant horse.” While each station ranges successful the oof origin of its harshest reviews, the bosom of each critique touches connected Proyas’ long-held condemnation that immoderate effort to re-adapt would ostensibly tarnish the bequest histrion Brandon Lee, who died successful a tragic mishap connected set.

“I truly don’t get immoderate joyousness from seeing negativity astir immoderate chap filmmakers work,” Proyas successful a March Facebook station regarding the reboot’s antagonistic like-to-dislike ratio connected Youtube. “And I’m definite the formed and unit truly had each bully intentions, arsenic we each bash connected immoderate film. So it pains maine to accidental immoderate much connected this topic, but I deliberation the fan’s effect speaks volumes. The Crow is not conscionable a movie. Brandon Lee died making it, and it was finished arsenic a testament to his mislaid brilliance and tragic loss. It is his legacy. That’s however it should remain.”

To the caller film’s credit, co-screenwriter William Schneider justified the film’s beingness successful an August interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter, saying they purposefully didn’t spell the aforesaid way Proyas did with his 1994 adaptation retired of respect for the archetypal movie.

“Instead, we wanted to illustration our ain people astir arsenic a mode to benignant of observe it and say, ‘Hey, we recovered a caller mode into the story, and we privation them some to beryllium with their ain voices, with their ain acceptable of fans,’” Schneider told THR. “I anticipation everyone walks distant from this movie conscionable reinvested successful the radical they emotion and attraction about. Because yes, it’s astir grief, it’s astir loss, but it’s besides astir sacrifice and what you’re consenting to bash for the idiosyncratic you love.”

Unfortunately, moviegoers weren’t truly feeling The Crow reboot, which is presently sitting astatine a 20% people connected Rotten Tomatoes. Perhaps, with capable clip and retrospection, The Crow reboot volition garner cult classical presumption similar its predecessor.

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