4. The Crow 2037: A New World Of Gods And Monsters
What Was It: After the failure of The Crow: City of Angels, but before work began on The Crow: Salvation, there was another version of The Crow in the works. This one was to be written and would also have been the directorial debut of Rob Zombie. The movie would have opened in 2010 where a young boy and his mother were murdered on Halloween by a dark priest of the "Fallen One." The boy would have been resurrected by the Crow, but would have forgotten all about the horrors he endured. Twenty-seven years later, the boy would have grown up to become a bounty hunter. After all those years, the painful memories would have resurfaced and finally, The Crow would set foot on his path to revenge. Despite the title, the script had very little connection to the actual Crow mythos and was more of a mash-up of different sci-fi and horror tropes. Which sounds really awesome, but may not have been a fit for The Crow.
What Happened: Zombie was in discussions with Christopher Lee to play the role of the dark priest, but that's really as far as the project ever got. The project was stalled for eighteen months and Zombie backed out. He later reworked the script into something different called Black Rider X, but this has never come to fruition (which is a pity, might have been a lot more awesome as its own thing). As far as The Crow goes, The Crow 2037 was replaced with The Crow: Salvation, so Crow fans were hardly lucky with this turn of events. A later Crow iteration was proposed featuring DMX and Eminem called The Crow: Lazarus that would have swapped the hard rock/punk-influence of The Crow for gangster rap. This movie was also scrapped, but in favor of the god-awful The Crow: Wicked Prayer. So fans got screwed either way.