John Wick: Chapter 4 and It star Bill Skarsgård will take the lead as Eric Draven in this year’s reimagining of The Crow and has now revealed his deepest regret about his portrayal of the titular antihero. Footage and images from the movie have largely been met with negativity from fans online, and it seems that Skarsgård also has his own reservations about the project, revealing in the latest issue of Empire Magazine that his take on The Crow is far too muscular and should instead have been “really skinny.”
“I felt very strange being in great shape for Eric. I wanted him to be really skinny! He was not a person that worked out, ever. In a perfect world he would have been a lot less fit in the first half of the movie.”
Sporting tattoos all over his body, which is as ripped as any Marvel superhero, Skarsgård revealed that he had just wrapped on the dystopian action flick Boy Kills World, hence why his Eric Draven (who is supposed to be a musician with no time or interest in hitting the gym) is so strapping. Unfortunately, there was nothing Skarsgård could do about his physique in such a short space of time, and it’s something the actor clearly regrets. But, would having a skinnier physique really have convinced the many fans who have already been put off by the reimagining?
Bill Skarsgård Has Some Reservations About the Ending of The Crow
Surprisingly, this is not the first time that Skarsgård has taken issue with an element of The Crow reimagining. The actor recently revealed that he also has regrets about the movie’s ending, and would have preferred something different. As he explained to Esquire…
“I personally preferred something more definitive.”
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Based on the 1989 comic created by James O’Barr, the story of The Crow revolves around a young man named Eric, who is forced to watch his fiancée, Shelly, murdered by a gang of street thugs after their car breaks down. Eric is then shot and later dies in hospital. But he is soon resurrected by a mysterious crow and seeks vengeance on the murderers, stalking and killing them while dealing with the loss of Shelly. You can check out the official synopsis for the reimagining below:
“Soulmates Eric Draven (Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.”
Directed by Rupert Sanders from a screenplay by Zach Baylin and Will Schneider, The Crow stars Bill Skarsgård as Eric Draven, aka The Crow and FKA Twigs as Shelly Webster, as well as Isabella Wei as Zadie, Danny Huston, Laura Birn, Sami Bouajila, and Jordan Bolger.
The Crow
is set to be released on August 23, 2024, and you can check out the trailer below.
