‘The Crow’ OG Director Revels In Remake’s “Brutal” Reviews: “Cynical Cash-Grab”
deadline.comAs Rupert Sanders‘ The Crow update suffers the fate that befalls so many remakes, at least one person isn’t so surprised. Alex Proyas, who directed the original 1994 movie based on the James O’Barr graphic novel, seems to be reveling in the $50 million Lionsgate remake’s negative reviews after it bombed at the box office with a $4.6 million opening last weekend.
Directed by Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman, Ghost in the Shell), it follows Eric Draven (Bill Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA Twigs) as they fall in love in a rehabilitation facility and run away together.
But when demons from her past catch up with them and murder the lovers, Eric comes back to life in order to exact his revenge.
Proyas took to Facebook ahead of the movie’s Aug. 23 premiere, posting a monocle emoji with a screenshot of a review about the “unfathomably awful goth remake.” “Wow.
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