The long planned reboot of The Crow is looking to garner an R-rating, according its executive producer.
While there have been plenty of false starts for the project, Rings director F. Javier Gutierrez is still attached to the movie, albeit as executive producer, having vacated the director’s chair back in 2014.
The reboot of the comic, which was also a Brandon Lee film, will reportedly cost $40 million to produce, and in a interview with Forbes, Gutierrez was asked about the movie’s rating.
“With The Crow, I haven’t talked to them in a while so I don’t know what is going on with that, but we are going to do an R-rated movie. I come from Europe, I’m very dark so I’m going to go for it. If any movie has to be R-rated then it’s The Crow. That’s how I got James O’Barr, the creator of The Crow, involved in the project because he said that if R-rated is the way that I wanted to go, he’s in. Even though I’m not directing it now, when I was going to be doing that I explained to the producers that they had to read and understand the comic book and not make the film a PG-13 version because it would make no sense. Some movies are for young people, I get it and maybe you can do it, but this movie is not necessarily for those young people and toning it down would give you a ghost of what The Crow should be.”
And while Gutierrez doesn’t sound entirely certain about the status of the project, fans of the material will surely be excited to hear about the film’s dark aspirations should it ever get made.
Originally published May 2, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
