Talk:The Crow: City of Angels

missing subplots

this article references missing subplots.. it'd be nice to know what was included in thses missing parts :) --Frantik 14:22, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

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Plothole in deleted footage

When Ashe shoots himself in the head in deleted footage, he should die, Eric, after all, received harm when it was self-inflicted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.39.189.2 (talk) 17:02, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Budget

IMDB lists the budget as $13 million but IMDB is not a reliable source. Anyone got any alternative sources for that figure? -- 109.78.201.130 (talk) 16:10, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Sources

• Review from Shivers magazine
• Thuy Trang Femme Fatales magazine interview
• Release date news Wizard magazine
• Vincent Perez profile Wizard magazine
• Crow news brief comments from director in Cinefantastique magazine
• Iggy Pop biography p253 ISBN 9781844493289 brief anecdotes related to the film (partial preview, registration required to read more)
• Preview, Perez EW.com
• costumes Kelly Porter set costumer (daughter of Sue Moore costume supervisor) mentions they "are already assembling the wardrobe for the upcoming sequel The Crow: City of Angels." (registration required to read more)
• Cinefantastique C:CoA on the cover, August 1996. story page 16 and multiple other articles.

Was looking through the Archive.org magazine rack and found a few things. Maybe they could be added to the article eventually, maybe not. (Searching for anything relevant is made difficult by many advertisements the video game and the soundtrack and that Meg Ryan film, but I was reasonably pleased to scrape up this much.) I may add some more link to the list as I go along too. -- 109.78.210.152 (talk) 04:53, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Unsourced material

Article has been tagged for needing sources long-term. Feel free to reinsert the below material with appropriate references. DonIago (talk) 15:37, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Production

==Production== After the success of The Crow, Miramax commissioned a sequel, and production began in October 1995. The budget was $13,000,000. Producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein offered directing duties to Tim Pope on the basis of his work on a short film, Phone, he made in 1991. David S. Goyer was brought on to write the script. Wanting to avoid comparisons with the first film and its late star Brandon Lee, Goyer originally intended to have the character of Sarah return as a female crow. Another idea was to set the story in 19th-century England. Eventually, it was decided the story would be centred on two brothers who are murdered in Los Angeles. In that script, Ashe and Danny were the brothers, with Ashe being the one brought back to avenge their deaths. The original script also featured two of the villains from the first film, Grange and Top Dollar, resurrected to fight Ashe. Goyer was unhappy about reviving Grange and Top Dollar and rewrote the script removing them entirely. Alex McDowell, who worked on the previous film and had also worked with Pope on music videos, was brought back as production designer and both aimed to give the film a distinguished look. McDowell took inspiration for the design of Los Angeles by looking at architecture from the 1920s and 1940s. Returning also from the previous film were producers Jeff Most and Edward R. Pressman. Both Goyer and Pope wanted to make the film completely different from the first one, aiming to give it a more tragic feel, and for the characters to have more depth. While working on the film, Goyer was also writing the script for Dark City, which was directed by the previous film's director Alex Proyas. Punk rock legend Iggy Pop was hired to play the villain Curve; Pop had previously been offered the role of Funboy in the first film. Tori Amos turned down the role of Sarah, while Jon Bon Jovi auditioned for the role of Ashe, but Vincent Pérez got that job in the end. Pérez was selected because of his performance in La Reine Margot. For inspiration, Pérez looked to Jim Morrison and Hamlet. Thomas Jane was picked to play the villain Nemo. While the filmmakers and studio originally intended to create a substantially different film from its predecessor (out of respect for Lee), Miramax ordered the film to be re-edited so as to resemble the earlier one as much as possible. Pope refused and he, along with Goyer, eventually disowned the film, as it did not represent their vision.

Home media

==Home media== The film's Blu-ray that was released by Echo Bridge Entertainment has been criticized as not being up to high-definition standards. It was further criticized for being erroneously labeled as 1080p when the film was, in fact, presented in 1080i. The film was released on VHS on December 3, 1996. In 1998, the film was released on DVD. In 2001, a collector's edition was released, labeled "exclusive Director's Cut", which restored 11 minutes of extended footage and included two featurettes and an audio commentary. The film was re-released in 2011 by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment as a double feature, paired up with The Crow: Wicked Prayer. The only special feature was the widescreen format. There was also a single feature release under the same company. The film was released on Blu-ray in May 2011. The film was released as a part of a boxset with The Crow: Salvation in the UK with 1080p picture and DTS-MA 5.1 sound. The only special features were 2 featurettes from the collector's edition. On September 11, 2012, Echo Bridge released another Blu-ray release of the film (once again, a double feature with The Crow: Wicked Prayer). It was already being sold at Walmart stores before its official release date had been reached. This version contained bonus material not present in the original Blu-ray release.

References

DonIago (talk) 15:37, 25 August 2022 (UTC)