While he’s wouldn’t exactly be everybody’s choice for the role, Mark Wahlberg has officially been offered the lead role in a remake of Alex Proyas’s seminal 1994 comic book adaptation, The Crow. This news comes from Bloody Disgusting, who suspect that Wahlberg will most likely decline the offer, and I’d suspect there are plenty of fans of the comic out there hoping he will too.
Relativity Media is behind this remake, which revolves around a rock musician named Eric Draven who is brought back from the dead to avenge his own murder. The franchise has spawned three sequels and a TV series. Producer Edward R. Pressman having commented about the remake that, “The setting is the southwest the Mexico/Arizona area and an urban [setting], Detroit or Pittsburgh or something like that There are two locations that the film is set. Its initial platform is in the southwest and then it moves to the big city in the north, middle or eastern America, and then back. The Crow itself is a creature in this movie its not just a bird Its got a personality and a character. Not like Godzilla exactly, but its very different [and has] a more active role in the story.”
Rock legend and actor Nick Cave is said to be rewriting the script for this new The Crow remake, with Blade’s Stephen Norrington set to direct.