As crazy as it may seem, The Crow 3 was about to go a completely different direction. Originally, it would have been directed by Rob Zombie himself and it was going to be his directorial debut. The film would have been titled The Crow 2037 and it would follow a more futuristic story. Check out more about the film and what Rob Zombie said about it below.
The film’s story would have started in the year “2010, when a young boy and his mother are murdered on Halloween night by a Satanic priest. A year later, the boy is resurrected as the Crow. Twenty-seven years later, and unaware of his past, he has become a bounty hunter on a collision course with his now all-powerful killer.”
In an interview with Cinefantastique, Zombie said “I did write The Crow 3, and I was supposed to direct it, and I worked on it for 18 months or so. The producers and the people behind it were so schizophrenic with what they wanted that I just bailed because I could see that it was going nowhere fast. They changed their minds every day about what they wanted. I had wasted enough time and gave up. I would never get back in that situation again.”
Once Rob Zombie left the project, we instead got The Crow: Salvation (2000). This movie was directed by Bharat Nalluri who is known for Spooks: The Greater Good (2015). The Crow: Salvation follows the story of “Alex Corvis, who was framed for the murder of his girlfriend and is then executed for the crime. He is then brought back from the dead by a mysterious crow and discovers that a corrupt police force is behind her murder. He then seeks out revenge against his girlfriend’s killers.” This film would have a limited theatrical run and then go direct to video. It currently sits at 18% Critic and 43% Audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
It would have been interesting to see how Rob Zombie’s version of The Crow 3 would have turned out, but then again, we may have never gotten his film House of 1000 Corpses. Do you wish we would have gotten to see his film The Crow 2037 or was it better it never happened? Let us know in the comments below. Also, check out the trailer for the new reboot titled The Crow set to debut in theaters on August 23rd of this year.
