The Crow - Unrated DVDm Cut (* unfinished project *)

This is something I was working on a few years ago and never finished due to a PC death.

The aim:

Take the US theatrical version cut by the MPAA add back in the violence <span style=“font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.2em;”>in the uncut gun battle in the club and the original rebirth scenes.</span>

Sources: UK blu-ray deleted scenes and a few web sourced shots

US Blu-ray (slightly DNR’d and reframed but it will do)

Video 1080p - Undecided if I should take the colour out like James O’Barr wanted, it would match the video better also.

Deleted scenes upscaled no DNR to take away rough edges they are as I found them with a tiny bit of clean up.

Audio - Stereo only, sorry guys but the deleted scenes leave me with little option as they are slightly rough and remixing them was a nightmare as it was

What I will not be adding - The skull cowboy scenes as the audio was never added as ADR it would not work at all.

Target - Hopefully a BD25 with the commentary tracks added

Anyone have any comments on the video colour levels I will be happy to hear them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy7HzpRQUiM

The original gun battle cut I did and this was bleach bypassed but ended up too dark I think, this was in 2011

get the jap bd. it has better overall picture quality.

if you need/want, i have the ld of the movie and could provide the pcm audio. since you're going stereo, this might be an option for you.

The Japanese and UK are the same master almost exactly and the us matches the deleted scenes a little better.

I was thinking about audio but the issue is the deleted scenes may stand out more

The skull cowboy stuff would involve me doing my own adr 

Doctor M said:

Don't do any of the black and white thing. 

James O'barr wrote the comic, not the script.  He did not direct it.  There's a reason he isn't responsible for any artistic choices; he is not a filmmaker.

If Alex Proyas had wanted black and white, he is artistically creative enough to have done it.

Leave the color.

I'd rather you found away to restore the Skull Cowboy.

Turns out Alex wanted it also

Director Alex Proyas originally wanted to shoot the entire movie in "black and white" closer to the comics and only using color in Draven's flash backs scenes with high contrast theme, but the studio executives didn't allow him to experiment with approach. This made Proyas shoot much of the movie in a monochromatic color theme mixed with red and dark gray. 

Put together a little test with the original vision 

http://youtu.be/dInb0YDp89E

dvdmike said:

Put together a little test with the original vision 

 

http://youtu.be/dInb0YDp89E

Looks good.

Up for watching it like this.

Do you have the 'skull cowboy' scene in equal quality? There is just a flash of it in the 'Deleted Footage Montage' on the DVD I have.

It's pretty damn poor, there are two scenes I have both they are bootleg vhs at best

There the ones I have seen.

Neither scenes are in the Workprints I saw either, so looks like it was cut early.

Good look with the project, look forward to seeing it.

Cut very early the make up was not working, so they made the crow his link to the other world and his resurrection