I just read over at SuperHeroHype.com that Stephen Norrington has signed on to write and direct a remake of the cult classic goth hit The Crow based on the noir comic creation by James O’Barr.

I’m a little skeptical as to whether or not this needs to be done. Well, let’s face it, this doesn’t need to be done. The Crow is pretty much perfect as-is.

However, in the hands of a master craftsman like Norrington I’m sure a Crow remake couldn’t miss or be a box office flop or spiral into a never ending shitfest of straight-to-DVD productions. He did bring us such cinematic masterworks as Blade and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a movie full of CGI so bad that it makes Disney’s 1928 cartoon classic Steamboat Willie look like The Matrix.

Norrington’s vision is to have this new version of The Crow be a “realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style” film which means that all you goth kids out there can pretty much get out of line for tickets to this one and get back to your poetry slams, cutting and other overly dramatic pleas for attention and acceptance.

Of course, the question you should be asking yourself is “just who exactly is going to play this new Crow, anyway? You know?” I have an idea. Since we’re going for a more realistic, hard-edged, documentary style vibe, I propose Dennis Franz of NYPD Blue fame.