Warning: Contains spoilers for The Crow!
Contains discussions of murder and sexual assault.
Summary
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Both the 1994 and 2024 The Crow movies changed Eric Draven’s origin story, with the latter adaptation taking a new spin on the iconic character.
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The brutal nature of Eric and Shelly’s deaths in the comics is likely why the Crow movies altered their origin stories for a wider audience appeal.
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Despite the changes, all versions of The Crow still follow Eric seeking revenge for the murders of himself and his soulmate, Shelly.
A whole new movie in The Crow Franchise is here, and it proves that the film series after 30 years still did not get the start of Eric Draven. In the years since the original The Crow The graphic novel has been released, several adaptations have put their own spin on the iconic story. Unfortunately, none of the stories managed to get Eric’s origins right, and it’s already clear that 2024 The Crow Didn’t go to or from the first trailer.
2024s The Crow is putting a fresh spin on the beloved graphic novel, with it being the biggest adaptation of the story since the 1994 original. 2024s The Crow Clearly took some liberties When you bring his version of the story to the big screen, with elements such as the look of Bill SkarsgÃ¥rd’s Eric and the Crow being wildly different. One of the biggest changes in the new movie has to do with Eric’s death, again not being anything like his death in the comics.
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Both the Crow movies changed Eric Draven’s origin story from the comics
Even though all three end up with Eric & Shelly dead
Both 1994 and 2024 The Crow Movies have altered Eric Draven’s origin story, with no film giving an accurate adaptation of the character’s death. In the 1994 film, Eric and Shelly are attacked in their apartment, with both of them dying there. in 2024 The CrowEric and Shelly are strangled to death, with this being the least violent method of killing yet.
While Eric and Shelly were killed in the original The Crow graphic novel, It is played very differently than in the movie adaptations. In the comics, Eric and Shelly’s car breaks down while they are driving home from a vacation. A group of thugs arrive and shoot Eric, paralyzing him. They then force Eric to watch while they sexually assault and beat Shelly to death, with Eric then dying on the way to the hospital.
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Why the Crow movies keep changing Eric Draven’s origin
The original origins may be too dark
Since all three of these The Crow Origin stories end with both characters being killed off, some have wondered why the movies keep changing Eric Draven’s origin. The changes are mostly likely to do with how brutal Eric and Shelly’s comic book deaths were. Although The Crow Movies are R-rated, depicting the violence of their comic book deaths could push the film’s rating to an NC-17.
moreover, The brutality of their murders doesn’t make that much of a difference in the grand scheme of things. All the killings still set Eric up to seek revenge on the killers. Because of this, the teams behind The Crow Kino may have simply decided it wasn’t worth the trouble to deal with the overly brutal murders.