THE CROW Will Not Fly With Stephen Norrington...

Merrick here...
Relativity Media's re-adaptation of James O'Barr's THE CROW joins GHOST RIDER, FREDDY VS. JASON movies, and the CLASH OF THE TITANS remake as a project Stephen Norrington could've directed...but didn't. There are probably a few others, but these are the ones that popped to mind. In THIS piece at Mania, Norrington reveals that he's no longer associated with THE CROW project because...

...an unnamed star had gotten involved with the movie. The star supposedly loved Norrington's vision and wanted to work with him, but then rejected the Norrington/Cave script and asked for a completely new take from a completely new writer.

Norrington said...

"As I had gotten involved explicitly as a writer-director my exit was inevitable."

Norrington would not identify the star in question, but the overall tenor of his comments suggest he was not referring to Mark Wahlberg, who rumors say was offered the title role in the picture fairly recently (details HERE). I'm a bit disappointed by this. I loved the style and energy of BLADE, and felt LXG possessed oodles of potential that was never fully realized for a variety of unfortunate reasons. To me, Norrington is one of those directors who is fully capable of, and just waiting to, knock one out of the park in a way that'll take our breath away. Hopefully he'll get a chancre to do just that...someday...
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