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Cave to pen Crow?

Nick Cave
Jul 29, 2010 Updated Jul 30, 2010

A remake of the 1994 action thriller The Crow has ditched its writer and rumour has it Nick Cave will step in.

Entertainment news site The Wrap reports that the project's producer Ed Pressman has appealed to Cave's Gothic sensibilities after the previous screenplay wasn’t up to scratch.

Cave had success with the screenplays to two John Hillcoat films - 1988’s Ghosts Of The Civil Dead and 2005’s The Proposition - and in 2006, he was listed as one of Variety magazines ‘Ten Screenwriters To Watch’.

But all that was before Nick's Gladiator sequel screenplay which saw Russell Crowe's character Maximus encounter the pantheon of Roman gods, lead tanks in World War II and fight in the Vietnam before ending up in a toilet in The Pentagon.

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Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor. He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1983, a group known for its eclectic influences and musical styles. Before that, he had fronted the group The Birthday...

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