The Crow is an American media franchise based on the limited comic book series of the same name created by James O'Barr. Since then, there have been five released films and a television series, as well as a video game.
Films FilmU.S. release dateFilm DistributorDirectorScreenwriter(s)Producers The CrowMay 13, 1994DimensionMiramaxAlex ProyasDavid J. Schow and John ShirleyEdward R. Pressman & Jeff Most The Crow: City of AngelsAugust 30, 1996MiramaxTim PopeDavid S. Goyer The Crow: SalvationJanuary 23, 2000DimensionBharat NalluriChip Johannessen The Crow: Wicked PrayerJuly 19, 2005Lance MungiaLance Mungia, Jeff Most and Sean Hood The CrowAugust 23, 2024LionsgateRupert SandersZach Baylin and Will SchneiderEdward R. Pressman, Molly Hassell, Victor Hadida, John Jencks & Samuel Hadida
Television
Cancelled projects The Crow: The Bride In the 90s, James O'Barr wanted to pursue a female-led installment of The Crow called The Crow: The Bride which would have followed a woman killed on her wedding day who would return seeking revenge. O'Barr had been inspired by a news story he had read in which Chicago gangsters robbing a church ended up at a wedding where a shoot out occurred with one of the guests who was an off-duty cop and 13 people were killed. When O'Barr pitched the concept to Miramax it was rejected as they did not believe audiences would pay to see an action film with a female lead.
The Crow: 2037 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. 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. 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 have begun 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. While producers responded favorably to Zombie's proposal for a third "The Crow" film, producers Pressman and Most ultimately decided it wasn't the best fit for a Crow film and was better served as a standalone work. Zombie himself spoke of his frustration with experience after spending 18 months working on the film often dealing with the indecisiveness of the producers who according to him would change their mind as to what they wanted on any given day which ultimately lead to Zombie leaving the project.
The Crow: Lazarus 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. Production had been slated to begin in November of that year, but the project ultimately never came to be.
Cast Characters Original series Reboot Television series The Crow The Crow: City of Angels The Crow: Salvation The Crow: Wicked Prayer The Crow The Crow: Stairway to Heaven Eric Draven/The Crow Brandon Lee Bill Skarsgård Mark Dacascos Sarah Mohr Rochelle Davis Mia Kirshner Katie Stuart Sergeant Albrecht Ernie Hudson Marc Gomes Top Dollar Michael Wincott John Pyper-Ferguson Shelly Webster Sofia Shinas FKA Twigs Sabine Karsenti Darla Mohr Anna Levine Lynda Boyd Tin-Tin Laurence Mason Darcy Laurie Funboy Michael Massee Ty Olsson Ashe Corven/The Crow Vincent Pérez Judah Earl Richard Brooks Curve Iggy Pop Alexander "Alex" Frederick Corvis/The Crow 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/The Crow Edward Furlong Luc "Death" Crash David Boreanaz Lola Byrne Tara Reid Lilly "Ignites the Dawn" Emmanuelle Chriqui El Niño Dennis Hopper Vincent Roeg colspan="4" Danny Huston Sophia Webster colspan="4" Josette Simon Marian colspan="4" Laura Birn Kronos colspan="4" Sami Bouajila Zadie colspan="4" Isabella Wei Chance colspan="4" Jordan Bolger
Crew +Crew for the Crow film and television series Crew Film The Crow The Crow: City of Angels The Crow: Salvation The Crow: Wicked Prayer The Crow Composer Graeme Revell Marco Beltrami Jamie Christopherson Volker Bertelmann Director of Photography Dariusz Wolski Jean-Yves Escoffier Carolyn Chen Kurt Brabbee Steve Annis Editor(s) Dov Hoenig M. Scott Smith Howard E. Smith Dean Holland Jason BallantineProduction companyDimension FilmsDistributorMiramax FilmsDimension Films
Reception Box office performance Film Release date Box office gross Budget Reference US/Canada Other territories Worldwide The Crow May 13, 1994 $50,693,129 $43,000,000 $93,693,129 $23 million The Crow: City of Angels August 30, 1996 $17,917,287 $6,931,174 $24,848,461 $13 million The Crow: Salvation January 23, 2000 $10 million The Crow: Wicked Prayer June 3, 2005 The Crow August 23, 2024 $9,275,659 $14,833,377 $24,109,036 $50 million Total $ $ $ $96 million
Critical response Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic The Crow (1994) 84% (63 reviews) 71 (14 reviews) The Crow: City of Angels 11% (36 reviews) The Crow: Salvation 18% (11 reviews) The Crow: Wicked Prayer 0% (9 reviews) The Crow (2024) 21% (134 reviews) 30 (31 reviews)
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