The new Re-Imagining of ‘The Crow’ is on it’s way to becoming more then just table talk as Director Stephen Norrington offers the role to no other then Mark Wahlberg. To help you picture Mark as the character I created the above photoshopped photo.
I can’t say I’m surprised they have offered the role to Mark Wahlberg for the character is very well in Mark’s acting range. Briefly, the film is about a man who gets murdered along with his girlfriend by bloodthirsty thugs only to be brought back to life in a vampire kinda way by the power of the crows to avenge the death of his girlfriend. Like I said not too far off the Mark Wahlberg tree of acting choices for he’s played those type of characters many times before. He is also a very talented actor which you see more as he does roles like the one he played in ‘I Heart Huckabees’.
What I am sort of surprised about is that they’re even making a re-make of this film. There’s already been several of them and they’ve all been straight to DVD films including:
The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998) (TV Series – 1 Season, 22 Episodes)
The Crow: Salvation (2000)
The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
The Crow vs Batman (Dan’s Imagination)
The film itself has a pretty big cult following and is known for the death of lead actor Brandon Bruce Lee who was shot accidentally on set (explained in detail below).
On March 31, 1993, while making The Crow, the crew filmed a scene in which his character walks into his apartment and discovers his girlfriend being beaten and raped by thugs. Actor Michael Massee, who played one of the film’s villains, was supposed to fire a pistol at Brandon Lee as he walked onto the scene.[citation needed] Because the movie’s second unit was running behind schedule, they decided to make dummy cartridges (cartridges that outwardly appear to be functional but contain no propellant or primers) from real cartridges by pulling out the bullets, dumping out the propellant and reinserting the bullets. However, the team neglected to remove the primers, which, if fired, could still produce just enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel (a squib load.) At some point prior to the fatal scene, the live primer in one of the improperly constructed dummy rounds was discharged by an unknown person while in the pistol, leaving the bullet stuck in the barrel.
This malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was later reloaded with blank cartridges and used in the scene in which Lee was shot. When the first blank cartridge was fired, the stuck bullet was propelled out of the barrel and struck Lee in the abdomen, lodging in his spine. He fell down instantly, and director Alex Proyas shouted “Cut!”. When Lee did not get up, the cast and crew rushed to him and found that he was wounded. He was immediately rushed to the New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington by ambulance, but following a six-hour operation to remove the bullet, Lee was pronounced dead at 1:04 pm on March 31, 1993. He was 28 years old.
