bill skarsgård In this country he is probably best known most recently as the guy under Pennywise’s creepy clown greasepaint it chiller. But that will likely change when audiences get their first look at the Swedish actor-director Rupert Sandersnew arrival on the big screen Crow. Skarsgård steps into the role of goth rocker Eric Draven, who moves in with his lover Shelley (fka twigs), when the demons of Shelley’s past (as a delicious nod) are brutally murdered danny houston) Catch them. Caught in a dilemma between the living and the dead, Eric sets out to avenge their deaths, walking a thin line between the natural world and the supernatural. “What attracted me to it was the opportunity to create a dark romance, something that dealt with loss, grief and the supernatural curtain between life and death and reaching through it,” says Sanders. , whose previous credits include 2012. snow white and the huntsman and 2017 Ghost in the Shell. Realizing he’s starting to sound a little emo, the Brit laughs and says, “Look, I grew up listening to Joy Division and The Cure, and this movie is a bit like the Cure song – The Beauty of Sadness. “
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sanders knows this Crow Heading towards the June 7 release date, much of the pre-release conversation will focus on the 1994 version starring Brandon Lee. And how could it not be? It was on the set of that movie that the strikingly handsome 28-year-old son of late martial-arts legend Bruce Lee was accidentally shot and killed in a firearms stunt — just when he was about to become Hollywood’s next actor. Was on the verge of. star. Three decades later, the original Crow It’s still regarded as a stylish pre-Marvel Studios adaptation of the graphic novel, but there’s definitely something mid-’90s about it, too. The dark, moody cinematography and rain-soaked streets are straight out of an MTV video, and the drops by Stone Temple Pilots and Nine Inch Nails now feel like snapshots of Hollywood domestic style in post-Tim Burton batman Era.
First Crow was a solid box office success ($50.6 million domestically on a $23 million budget), as well as a highly fitting epilogue to Lee’s promising life. Still, Sanders makes it clear that his new film is completely different. James O’BarrAccording to the source material, he also considers it a kind of tribute to Lee’s memory. “Obviously, this was a terrible tragedy, and it’s certainly something that was always on our minds during the making of the film,” he says. “Brandon was an original voice and I think he will always be synonymous with Crow And I hope they’re proud of what we’ve done and how we’ve brought the story back together. His spirit is very alive in this film. There’s a real fragility and beauty to his version of Crowe, and I think Bill feels like he’s his heir.
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While Eric and Shelley’s onscreen deaths occur in the opening minutes of the 1994 version Crow, Sanders says he always wanted his version of the story to have an even greater balance between light and dark. So will we see more of the estranged couple before tragedy strikes to tear them apart, making Eric’s quest for vengeance more emotionally resonant? As far as whether or not audiences will enjoy the romance, Sanders doesn’t seem too concerned. “I never did any testing between Bill and Twigs,” says the director. “When they first arrived (on set) in Prague I invited them over for dinner and I was a somewhat nervous mother-in-law. Was like a father trying to see if there was a spark, because you don’t know. And they were great. They hung out and got straight into it.
As for Skarsgård’s chiseled and menacingly chiseled “man with the dragon tattoo” look in the second half of the film (see the photo of him standing in front of a mirror), Sanders says his inspiration was O’Barr. The graphic novel or Lee’s previous incarnation differs from his own life. “I think the beauty of Bill is that he has a disturbing beauty, and as he changes through his loss, he becomes something that even he can’t control. It’s that famous line: ‘He who fights demons must be careful not to become one.’ That was my look in the 90s, when we were squatting and talking in London, (mixed with some modern influences) like post malone And Lil Peep. I hope that people who are 19 today will look at him and say, ‘That guy is us.'” That image marks the beginning of his transformation into the Crow. “This is the moment when we realize bad things are coming.”
