THERE WAS INTEREST IN TURNING THE COMIC BOOK INTO A MOVIE EARLY ON. “That became the beginning of the focal point, and the idea that there could be a love so strong that it could transcend death, that it could refuse death, and this soul would not rest until it could set things right.” 2. “I thought it was outlandish, a $30 ring, two lives wasted,” he said in a book about the production called The Crow: The Movie.
Pivotal to his comic book’s plotline was another tragedy O’Barr heard about: A couple killed over an engagement ring. “Eventually I was smart enough to realize that that was a dead end, and so I thought perhaps putting something down on paper I could exorcise some of that anger.” “I tried all the typical angst-ridden outlets, like substance abuse and going to clubs or parties every night and just basically trying to keep yourself numb for as long a period of time as possible,” O’Barr told The Baltimore Sun in 1994. He hoped it would be a healthy way of dealing with the death of his fiancée, who had been killed by a drunk driver. In 1981, 21-year-old James O’Barr was drawing combat manuals in the Marines when he decided to start The Crow. IT’S BASED ON A COMIC BOOK, WHICH WAS INSPIRED BY TWO TRAGEDIES. ( Warning: Violence and profanity in some of the videos below.) 1. Here are a few things you might not have known about the film. The Crow-Alex Proyas's 1994 cult film about a man brought back from the dead to avenge the murder of his fiancée-was marred by tragedy when its star, Brandon Lee, was killed in an on-set accident just days before the film was scheduled to wrap, and not long before he was to be married.