If you were a teenager in the 1990s (like me!), few things mattered to you like The Crow. The 1994 film captured goth/grunge cool. From its origins as an indie comic book to its legendary soundtrack to its tragic production, The Crow captured the mood of a generation.
Which is to say that the first look at Bill Skarsgård in the upcoming remake of The Crow might be a bit of a shock. And if you were a teenager in the ’90s, your heart isn’t what it used to be, so you might want to sit down. Have a look at the first image of Skarsgård as the titular anti-hero…
Photo courtesy of Lionsgate
Directed by Rupert Sanders, The Crow stars Skarsgård as Eric Draven, a musician who gets possessed by a spirit of vengeance after criminals brutally beat him and kill his fiancée Shelly (FKA Twigs). The spirit...
Which is to say that the first look at Bill Skarsgård in the upcoming remake of The Crow might be a bit of a shock. And if you were a teenager in the ’90s, your heart isn’t what it used to be, so you might want to sit down. Have a look at the first image of Skarsgård as the titular anti-hero…
Photo courtesy of Lionsgate
Directed by Rupert Sanders, The Crow stars Skarsgård as Eric Draven, a musician who gets possessed by a spirit of vengeance after criminals brutally beat him and kill his fiancée Shelly (FKA Twigs). The spirit...
- 2/28/2024
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
If ever there were ever a book destined to both invite and elude a satisfactory film adaptation indefinitely, Jim Thompson's 1952 pulp magnum opus "The Killer Inside Me" is it.
Much like Walker Percy's 1961 novel "The Moviegoer," the spare prose, snapshot precise detail and intimate first person narration of "Killer" project a film directly into the reader's head more lucid and haunting than anything likely arrive on a movie screen via creative committee.
And, at least as far as Hollywood is concerned, the lead characters in both books (a genial psychopath deputy sheriff in Thompson's, and an emotionally unreachable Korean War veteran in Percy's) aren't exactly the kinds of seize the moment protagonists typically tasked with driving three acts of complications and changes to a satisfying climax that leaves an audience with happily shaking heads when the lights come up.
To my knowledge "The Moviegoer" remains in development limbo as an option contract,...
Much like Walker Percy's 1961 novel "The Moviegoer," the spare prose, snapshot precise detail and intimate first person narration of "Killer" project a film directly into the reader's head more lucid and haunting than anything likely arrive on a movie screen via creative committee.
And, at least as far as Hollywood is concerned, the lead characters in both books (a genial psychopath deputy sheriff in Thompson's, and an emotionally unreachable Korean War veteran in Percy's) aren't exactly the kinds of seize the moment protagonists typically tasked with driving three acts of complications and changes to a satisfying climax that leaves an audience with happily shaking heads when the lights come up.
To my knowledge "The Moviegoer" remains in development limbo as an option contract,...
- 6/16/2010
- by Bruce Bennett
- ifc.com
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