| The Crow | |
| Creator: | James O'Barr |
| Origin: | The Crow (1989) |
| Owner: | Film distribution: Paramount Pictures (through Miramax Films): (1–4) (1994–2005) Lionsgate: (5) (2024 reboot) Comics: Image (1989–1998)IDW Publishing (1998–1999) |
| Years: | 1989–present |
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| Tv: | (1998–1999) |
| Vgs: | The Crow: City of Angels (1997) |
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 four released films and a television series.
| Film | U.S. release date | Director | Screenwriter(s) | Producers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Crow | May 13, 1994 | Alex Proyas | David J. Schow and John Shirley | Edward R. Pressman & Jeff Most | |
| August 30, 1996 | Tim Pope | David S. Goyer | |||
| January 23, 2000 | Bharat Nalluri | Chip Johannessen | |||
| July 19, 2005 | Lance Mungia | Lance Mungia, Jeff Most and Sean Hood | |||
| The Crow | August 23, 2024 | Rupert Sanders | Zach Baylin and Will Schneider | Edward R. Pressman, Molly Hassell, Victor Hadida, John Jencks & Samuel Hadida |
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 , 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'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.
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Crow | The Crow: City of Angels | The Crow: Salvation | The Crow: Wicked Prayer | The Crow | The Crow: Stairway to Heaven | ||
| Eric Draven | Brandon Lee | 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 | Sabine Karsenti | |||||
| Darla Mohr | 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 | ||||||
| Vincent Roeg | Danny Huston | ||||||
| Sophia | Josette Simon | ||||||
| Marian | Laura Birn | ||||||
| Kronos | Sami Bouajila | ||||||
| Zadie | Isabella Wei | ||||||
| Chance | Jordan Bolger | ||||||
| Crew | Film | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Crow | The Crow: City of Angels | 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[4] | |
| Editor(s) | Dov Hoenig M. Scott Smith | Howard E. Smith | Dean Holland | Jason Ballantine | ||
| Production company | Dimension Films | |||||
| Distributor | Miramax Films | Dimension Films | ||||
| 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 | [5] [6] |
| The Crow: City of Angels | August 30, 1996 | $17,917,287 | $6,931,174 | $24,848,461 | $13 million | [7] [8] |
| The Crow: Salvation | January 23, 2000 | $10 million | ||||
| The Crow: Wicked Prayer | June 3, 2005 | |||||
| The Crow | August 23, 2024 | $50 million | [9] | |||
| Total | $68,610,416 | $49,931,174 | $118,541,590 | $96 million | ||
| Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic |
|---|---|---|
| The Crow (1994) | 84% (63 reviews)[10] | 71 (14 reviews)[11] |
| The Crow: City of Angels | 11% (36 reviews)[12] | |
| The Crow: Salvation | 18% (11 reviews)[13] | |
| The Crow: Wicked Prayer | 0% (9 reviews)[14] | |
| The Crow (2024) | ||