The long awaited reboot of “The Crow” starring Bill Skarsgard is set for a release date in June with plot details around the film also revealed...
“The Crow” will fly again … sooner than expected.
The upcoming reboot directed by Rupert Sanders will see Bill Skarsgard take on the iconic role of a murdered rocker, who comes back from the dead to take vengeance on the people responsible for killing him and the love of his life. Skarsgard is best known for his role in “It: Chapter One” and “It: Chapter Two” where he played Pennywise the Clown as well as the recent horror hit “Barbarian.”
The original comic from James O’Barr was first released back in 1989 before it was adapted into the iconic yet tragic film in 1994 starring Brandon Lee, who died during filming after he was accidentally shot and killed on set.
The new film will be released on June 7 with Skarsgard taking on the role of Eric Draven — the part that Lee played in the original movie — with musician and actor FKA Twigs playing his doomed girlfriend Shelly Webster.
Plot details for the film were also revealed as “soulmates Eric Draven (Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA Twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.”
That’s a change from both the original comic — where Eric and Shelly are killed by a group of thugs after their car breaks down — and the first film with Eric and Shelly meeting their demise after criminals break into their home and kill the couple for battling the landlord who sought to evict all the residents from the building.
Danny Huston, Laura Birn, Sami Bouajila, and Jordan Bolger also star in “The Crow” reboot.
It’s been an impossibly long road for “The Crow” to finally return to theaters after numerous attempts to resurrect the character in the past have failed. Most famously, “Aquaman” actor Jason Momoa desperately tried to get “The Crow” reboot off the ground so he could portray the lead character but his movie ultimately died in development hell.
Now Sanders will take a stab at his own version of a reboot with Skarsgard taking over the lead role in the upcoming film.
