Frank has fully resurrected CrowFans as of this past Wednesday. This is the first step in the old Crow gang getting things back together. I look forward to what CrowFans, Deadman Visits You, CrowColl, ChambeRoom and ABaHB can do in putting this franchise back on track.
You want to know my wish list for this franchise? I would love for the franchise to take a Sin City turn. I know some fans would like to see a female Crow film. But folks, the time is just not right for that. Catwoman, Elektra, Tomb Raider, Blood Rayne etc, the female genre action movie is dead right now. Now is not the time to put a female led Crow film out in the market. The time IS ripe for us to go back to the beginning.
You ask, what do I mean by going back to the beginning? I don't mean a prequel or a re imagining of the first film. I am so sick of the attempts at redoing the original story. I mean the original O'Barr graphic novel needs to be put to film in a literal sense. With the success of SIN CITY, it has been shown that a faithful and literal interpretation of graphic novels can be done right and successfully. The film 300, another Frank Miller graphic novel, is coming to life. The time is right for one of the best graphic novels ever, THE CROW, to be brought to life in a b/w literal interpretation.
I say they get a director that knows the medium of comics and digital technology, pull in O'Barr as a consultant and you film the graphic novel in black & white and you tone down nothing about the themes in it. Once that has been done successfully, then they should go directly to the Kitchen Sink Press archives and do film versions of DEAD TIME, FLESH & BLOOD, WILD JUSTICE & WAKING NIGHTMARES.
Why the KSP comics? To be honest, they are, to date, some of the most original stories that I have read in the Crow universe. No slight against all the fan fiction out there, but none of those or the official movies in the franchise, have offered as varying degree of story line and originality as the KSP series did. The KSP comic series kept to the crow resurrecting mytho of love, death, revenge. However, everything else from the avatar's look, demeanor and abilities/weaknesses were totally different. I think that is exactly what the movies need to be; in the same family but each a totally different take on the mythos. Fans wanting the female lead story would get their wish with the graphic novel FLESH & BLOOD, while the other graphic novels in the series would give us story lines that fall within the same concept of love, death and revenge, but offer up variations to those themes.
Will this ever happen? I don't know, but if we make a loud enough noise, "the god's will notice us again." We have become a weak and silent bunch. The time is ripe that we make some noise and be heard. The technology has caught up now that literal interpretations can be done of graphic novels. The interest by the public is there. All that is needed is some person to grab this franchise by the balls and do with it what needs to be done with it.
Pressman, Dimension, anyone from those offices, are you listening? The franchise isn't dead, it is just time to bury the old way of doing things. Let the franchise flourish as it should.
What are YOUR thoughts? Let me know.
Take care.....
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