Bill Skarsgård is disappointed by the ending of The Crow reboot

Rupert Sanders and the studios may have taken a liberty that could change the situation.

Even if some remain impatient to discover it, many people have expressed some doubts about this remake of the film by Rupert SandersAnd Alex Proyasthe director of the original film, the first, who considers his 1994 version to be “a testament, a work designed to pay homage to (the) tragic loss (of Brandon Lee, who died on the set of the film), to his light that we lost”.

Today it's Bill Skarsgard who expresses some concerns around this reboot of The Crow. The Swedish actor was chosen to take over as Brandon Lee in the skin of the raven, this man who sees his girlfriend murdered at the same time as him, and who returns from the dead to take revenge. In an interview given to the American media EsquireBill Skarsgård expressed some apprehension regarding the ending of the film:

“Personally, I preferred something more definitive,” he declares, suggesting that this new film could end with an open ending. Nowadays in Hollywood, open endings do not necessarily serve any plot purpose, but rather leave the door open to a possible “franchising” stories or characters, which allows studios to bet on the long term.

However, it is important to remember that in the graphic novel imagined by James O'Barr, which inspired this story by Alex Proyas in the 1990s, the character of Eric Draven eliminates his fiancée's assassins one by one before being able to find her by accessing eternal rest. The same is true in the 1994 adaptation, in The Crow: City of Angels (1996), The Crow: Salvation (2000), The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005), but also in the Canadian miniseries broadcast between 1998 and 1999.

None of these adaptations are sequel on the other, and in each of them, the raven, Eric Draven, carries out his revenge to find rest with his loved one in scenarios independent of each other. The Crow Will 2.0 undermine this narrative pattern? Response on August 21 in cinemas, the release of the film having been postponed.

Here is the trailer for the film: