“The original’s still there,” Rupert Sanders tells EW.
“I haven’t recorded over anyone’s VHS…
This is my version of that text.”
Bill Skarsgard as Eric Draven in ‘The Crow’.Lionsgate
Perhaps it comes from experience.
I haven’t recorded over anyone’s VHS," he says.
This is my version of that text.
Concept art of Eric Draven’s opera auditorium scene in ‘The Crow’.David Honz/Lionsgate
It was my adaptation of James’s graphic novel, which I loved."
There are even stark departures from the source material.
“This is not a remake.
The finished opera scene in ‘The Crow’.Lionsgate
It is wildly different,” Sanders remarks.
“It is a wild ride, and it’s for the audience of today.”
Sanders was drawn more to the romance.
Concept art of Eric Draven in ‘The Crow’.Jeremy Hanna/Lionsgate
“I wanted to make a dark romantic love story, like a Cure song,” he says.
FKA twigsstars opposite Skarsgard as Shelly.
Then they go on the run when Vincent’s henchmen close in on her location.
“The gore is in service of a love story.
It’s not just nihilistic, splatter gore just for the sake of it.
Every scene of action and violence is a scene of emotional empathy with the lead actor.”
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That’s the audience that I feel this film is for.
The Crowopens in theaters this Friday.
