Lionsgate has released the first official trailer for The Crow, starring Bill Skarsgård, and locations in Prague can be spotted throughout. Director Rupert Sanders‘ reboot of the classic 1994 film from Alex Proyas and starring Brandon Lee was filmed in the Czech Republic during the summer of 2021.
Distributor Lionsgate announced a release date of June 7 for The Crow two weeks back as they pushed another Prague-shot project, the John Wick spinoff Ballerina starring Ana de Armas and Keanu Reeves, to 2025. Vanity Fair dropped the first photos of The Crow days later, with some fans comparing the Skarsgård’s look in the film to Jared Leto‘s Joker from Suicide Squad.
Czech distributor Vertical Entertainment has confirmed a June 6, 2024 release date for The Crow in Prague and cinemas across the Czech Republic. Along with (and from) the trailer, additional details about the plot of the new film, which roughly follows the earlier movie, have also been made available.
“Soulmates Eric Draven (Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA Twigs) are brutally murdered,” reads The Crow‘s official synopsis. “Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek revenge, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.”
Despite being set in what appears to be an American city, locals will be able spot numerous locations from the Czech capital in trailer for The Crow. The image of Skarsgård in full Crow makeup at the top is on central Prague’s Nekázanka Street, around the corner from busy Na příkopě.
An action scene takes place inside the adjacent Palác Živnostenské Banky building, which was also used for the production of Marvel‘s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier in Prague.
Both interiors and exteriors from the Rudolfinum concert hall, where a major set piece was filmed, can be seen throughout the trailer for The Crow. Exteriors for the National Theatre’s Nová scéna building can be briefly spotted, as well.
The haunting Nákladové nádraží Žižkov freight train station, which ceased operations in 2002 and has since become a national cultural monument, also appears in The Crow‘s trailer during the scenes where Draven meets a mystical character played by Sami Bouajila. Instantly-recognizable Prague metro signage for the C line can be clearly spotted, even though the intended setting is clearly not the Czech capital.
The pink-jumpsuit prison where Draven and Webster first meet is the brutalist Kulturní dům Repre (Repre Cultural Center) in Most, about 70 kilometers northwest of Prague. The Apple TV+ series Foundation also filmed at the same location last year.
The new film also shot in Vrané nad Vltavou, Břežanské údolí, and Mšecké Žehrovice. Studio production of The Crow took place at Barrandov Studio as well as the new Penzing Studios near Munich.
The Crow was adapted by Zach Baylin and William Josef Schneider from the original comic book by James O’Barr. Danny Huston, Laura Birn (Foundation), Jordan Bolger also star in supporting roles.
Catch The Crow in Prague cinemas from June 6, 2024.
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Looks like absolute tosh compared to the original, but love seeing those Prague locations. I wonder if word of its troubled production will surface on release.