The Crow flying straight to video
Posted on Wed, 1-Dec-2004
Poor old David Boreanaz. What looked like being the former "Angel" star's big jump into multiplexes - "The Crow : Wicked Prayer" - is instead skipping theatres and heading straight to disc.
Bloody Disgusting announced the news today - sourcing the print version of Variety - that the fourth chapter in the winged avenger series is headed the Blockbuster - as, ah, in 'video' - way.
However, this doesn't mean the film's woofer. After all, "The Crow : Salvation", the last entry in the series, skipped cinemas and in was quite good - a significant improvement over the steaming pile that was "Crow : City of Angels" anyway. And surely something with a cast that features Boreanaz, Dennis Hopper, Danny Trejo and Tara Reid has to be atleast worth a look, right? Personally, I look forward to checking it out. Director Lance Mungia's "Six String Samurai" was a treat. If this is half as nifty, It'll be well worth the seven or eight bucks they're charging for rentals these days.
Author Jim Butcher tells fans on his official site that he'd love "Angel" blondie-boy James Marsters to star in the recently announced TV version of his book.
If the actor gets the nod, he'd play "an irascible wizard named Harry Dresden, who regularly gives the magical establishment indigestion — and the police, the same. Take Sam Spade, your Average Joe Underdog Action Star, and toss in some spellcraft, and you get Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden".
Whether that happens or not (not his decision), he sounds confident that the studio behind the new telemovie will do his tale justice. "Sci Fi and Lion's Gate are both very supportive of the series--and they're now planning on doing as much as they can to draw the series directly from the source material--the books! So, the project is still underway, has support, and is being planned as something much like the books rather than being slated for rearranging", says Butcher.
The site reports that, "This is moving fast. Really fast, actually. Hollywood deals -- even for TV shows, setting aside things like movies (to go back to Spider-Man, note, we're looking at the third movie coming out in 2007), are measured in increments of TV seasons or years. We've seen movement on this possibility inside of the first two years after the novels got optioned. Movement of any kind in that timeframe is huge. Any TV possibility has to pass through a veritable gauntlet of review by men in suits with often scant or zero familiarity with the subject at hand. We're doing well so far, and we'll be doing really well if something shows up on television in 2005 (my personal current bet, which is based on nothing whatsoever, would be more like 2006)". Apparently there will be a telemovie first, and if that goes well it could lead to a series.
Meanwhile, Marsters is filming a telemovie called "The Pierre Jewel Heist". In it, Marsters play an amiable bankrobber. It's scheduled to air on the USA network in February.
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