{"id":11011,"date":"2014-11-06T05:25:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T09:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2014-11-01T10:57:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T14:57:23","slug":"james-obarr-the-crow-and-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11011","title":{"rendered":"James O’Barr: “The Crow” and Much More"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sean CW Korsgaard<\/strong> posted a great interview with The Crow creator James O’Barr<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

O’Barr<\/strong> discusses what got him on board the new Crow<\/strong> movie [O’Barr<\/strong> hated and had nothing to do with the sequels and was against a new Crow<\/strong> film]…<\/p>\n

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…We\u2019re not remaking the movie, we\u2019re readapting the book. My metaphor is that there is a Bela Lugosi Dracula<\/a> and there\u2019s a Francis Ford Coppola Dracula<\/a>, they use the same material, but you still got two entirely different films. This one\u2019s going to be closer to Taxi Driver<\/em> or a John Woo film, and I think there\u2019s room for both of them…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

a new Crow<\/strong> comic that O’Barr<\/strong> is writing and drawing called The Engines of Despair<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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…features a woman who was killed on her wedding day and comes back for revenge…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…a war comic<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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…It\u2019s a true war story from the Korean War, about a group of Marines \u2013 I was in the Marines, and I\u2019d heard about this group called \u201cthe real 300\u2033, Fox Company, 235 of them held a mountaintop in Korea for five days against thousands of well-armed Chinese troops in subzero temperatures. Unlike the Spartans, against all odds, they held the mountain, and 82 of them lived to tell the tale…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…and a pet project O’Barr<\/strong> has been working on called Sundown<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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…it\u2019s a gothic spaghetti-western that I\u2019ve been working on for about five years in my spare time. It\u2019s following four characters, each on a journey across post-Civil War America, each have different motives, goals and back stories, and Sundown<\/em> is like any good story, about their journeys, not their destination. I\u2019d describe it as theWizard of Oz<\/em> if it had been directed by Sergio Leone…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Korsgaard’s O’Barr interview<\/strong><\/a> is really well done and I recommend it to all.<\/p>\n

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