The Crow is an American media franchise based on the limited series of the same name by James O'Barr.
The Crow | |
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Created by | James O'Barr |
Original work | The Crow (1989) |
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Film(s) |
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Television series | The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998–1999) |
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Video game(s) | The Crow: City of Angels (1997) |
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Initial development on a third Crow film was announced in August 1997, when Rob Zombie was attached to make a directorial debut with The Crow: 2037.[1] White Zombie covered the KC and the Sunshine Band hit "I'm Your Boogie Man" for the soundtrack of The Crow: City of Angels, and after seeing Rob Zombie's work on the video he produced for the song, Edward Pressman offered Zombie the opportunity to helm the third Crow film.[1] Had the film been made, Zombie planned to shift focus in tone from the revenge angle of the previous two entries, to a more horror based approach. The film would've began in 2010, when a young boy and his mother are murdered on Halloween night by a Satanic priest. A year later, the boy is resurrected as the Crow. Twenty-seven years later, and unaware of his past, he has become a bounty hunter on a collision course with his now all-powerful killer.[1]
In July 2000, rapper DMX had been in discussions with producers about a fourth Crow film titled The Crow: Lazarus about a rapper who chooses to leave the music scene for the love of a woman and is killed during a drive-by shooting. The rapper is then reincarnated as The Crow in order to take revenge on the gang responsible for his death.[2] Production had been slated to begin in November of that year, but the project ultimately never came to be.[3]
Characters | Original Films | Reboot | Television | ||||
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The Crow | The Crow: City of Angels |
The Crow: Salvation |
The Crow: Wicked Prayer |
The Crow | The Crow: Stairway to Heaven | ||
1994 | 1996 | 2000 | 2005 | 2024 | 1998 – 1999 | ||
Eric Draven | Brandon Lee | Mentioned | Bill Skarsgård | Mark Dacascos | |||
Sarah Mohr | Rochelle Davis | Mia Kirshner | Katie Stuart | ||||
Albrecht | Ernie Hudson | Marc Gomes | |||||
Top Dollar | Michael Wincott | John Pyper-Ferguson | |||||
Shelly Webster | Sofia Shinas | FKA Twigs | Sabine Karsenti | ||||
Darla | Anna Levine | Lynda Boyd | |||||
Tin-Tin | Laurence Mason | Darcy Laurie | |||||
Funboy | Michael Massee | Ty Olsson | |||||
Ashe Corven | Vincent Pérez | ||||||
Judah Earl | Richard Brooks | ||||||
Curve | Iggy Pop | ||||||
Alexander Frederick "Alex" Corvis | Eric Mabius | ||||||
Erin Randall | Kirsten Dunst | ||||||
Lauren Randall | Jodi Lyn O'Keefe | ||||||
Nathan Randall | William Atherton | ||||||
Police Captain John L. Book | Fred Ward | ||||||
James "Jimmy" Cuervo | Edward Furlong | ||||||
Luc "Death" Crash | David Boreanaz | ||||||
Lola Byrne | Tara Reid | ||||||
Lilly "Ignites the Dawn" | Emmanuelle Chriqui | ||||||
El Niño | Dennis Hopper |
Crew | Film | ||||
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The Crow | The Crow: City of Angels |
The Crow: Salvation | The Crow: Wicked Prayer |
The Crow | |
1994 | 1996 | 2000 | 2005 | 2024 | |
Director(s) | Alex Proyas | Tim Pope | Bharat Nalluri | Lance Mungia | Rupert Sanders |
Producer(s) | Jeff Most Edward R. Pressman |
Victor Hadida Malcolm Gray Edward R. Pressman Molly Hassell John Jencks | |||
Writer(s) | Screenplay by David J. Schow John Shirley |
David S. Goyer | Chip Johannessen | Screenplay by Lance Mungia Jeff Most Sean Hood |
Zach Baylin Will Schneider |
Composer(s) | Graeme Revell | Marco Beltrami | Jamie Christopherson | Volker Bertelmann | |
Director(s) of photography | Dariusz Wolski | Jean-Yves Escoffier | Carolyn Chen | Kurt Brabbee | Steve Annis |
Editor(s) | Dov Hoenig M. Scott Smith |
Michael N. Knue Anthony Redman |
Howard E. Smith | Dean Holland | Jason Ballantine |
Film | Release date | Box office gross | Budget | Reference | ||
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US/Canada | Other territories |
Worldwide | ||||
The Crow | May 13, 1994 | $50,693,129 | $43,000,000 | $93,693,129 | $23 million | [4][5] |
The Crow: City of Angels | August 30, 1996 | $17,917,287 | $6,931,174 | $24,848,461 | $13 million | [6] [7] |
The Crow: Salvation | January 23, 2000 | — | — | — | $10 million[citation needed] | |
The Crow: Wicked Prayer | June 3, 2005 | — | — | — | — | |
Total | $68,610,416 | $49,931,174 | $118,541,590 | $46 million |
Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic |
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The Crow (1994) | 84% (63 reviews)[8] | 71 (14 reviews)[9] |
The Crow: City of Angels | 11% (36 reviews)[10] | — |
The Crow: Salvation | 18% (11 reviews)[11] | — |
The Crow: Wicked Prayer | 0% (8 reviews)[12] | — |