I’m not really that big a fan of The Crow, both the movie and comic book and I always found it’s rise to Goth status-quo to coincide with Goth’s overall decline into the fourth ring of hell AKA Hot Topic. But I do love Nick Cave, I don’t think there is a single other songwriter who’s lyrics i know as intimately as I do Cave’s (Even if it’s mostly what I think the lyrics are).

Like most somewhat successful franchises of old, The Crow is getting a reboot by director Stephen Norrington (who directed the very under-appreciated and campy Blade). Norrington also wrote the original script that the studio didn’t think was all that hot and decided to bring in a new scribe,with a “Red Right Hand” to rewrite it, Nick Cave. If this sounds kind of odd well then you just don’t know Nick Cave that well! He’s actually had a long albeit intermittent career with film, known mostly for penning the 2005′s Australian western, The Proposition.

Now if anyone can make The Crow successfully dark, moody, bloody, melodramatic and full of biblical references it’s Nick Cave. Read more about it at the Wrap.

- My Pal the Crook