THE CROW Remake Has A Writer/Director Now...

Merrick here...
The occasionally rumored remake of Alex Proyas' THE CROW (based on comic material by James O'Barr) looks to be heating up. Stephen Norrington (who directed the first BLADE movie, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, and had a close call with the CLASH OF THE TITANS remake) will write and direct a "reinvention" / re-interpretation of the CROW concept.

“Whereas Proyas’ original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style,”

...says Norrington in THIS ARTICLE in Variety. While watching Proyas' THE CROW on its opening night, I broke out with a horrible case of the Chickenpox - which is completely irrelevant to this story.