Nick Cave to Rewrite 'The Crow' Remake

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Wed Jul-28-10 06:58 AM
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Nick Cave to Rewrite 'The Crow' Remake

The last we heard about Relativity Media's remake of "The Crow," producer Ed Pressman told MTV that an offer was out to a "major actor" and director Stephen Norrington ("Blade") had finished a "terrific" screenplay that would be set in two locations: "the southwest -- the Mexico/Arizona area -- and an urban -- Detroit or Pittsburgh or something like that."

Well apparently Norrington's take wasn't quite "terrific" enough, as Pressman recently told TheWrap that none other than iconic musician and acclaimed screenwriter Nick Cave has come on to rewrite the script.

Hiring Cave to rewrite Norrington's script is a bold move, but it may prove to be worth it in the long run, as Cave may be the perfect choice to help resurrect the fading franchise.

He made his screenwriting debut with John Hillcoat's 1988 prison drama "Ghosts … of the Civil Dead," but what really has this lifelong "Crow" fan excited is Cave's impressive work on Hillcoat's gritty Australian Western "The Proposition," which was awesome.

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/exclusive-nick-cave-rewrite-crow-remake-19578

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Wed Jul-28-10 07:06 AM
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1. fading franchise!!!

Edited on Wed Jul-28-10 07:07 AM by CBGLuthier

The "franchise" was DOA as soon as its star was killed. One more vengeful ghost story isn't what the world needs. None of them can top High Plains Drifter any way.

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Wed Jul-28-10 07:19 AM
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2. ??

from the same article:

And before that, Russell Crowe asked Cave to write a sequel to "Gladiator," which would have ended with "a 20-minute war sequence that ended up in Vietnam, and then in a toilet in the Pentagon, with as this rage-fueled eternal warrior." Unfortunately, the studio rejected the script, as it proved impossible to finance.

:wtf:
:rofl:

sorry, that totally distracted me.

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