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Deleted Skeleton Cowboy

posted 6 years ago by abbeyliz20 (14)
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What do you think about them deleting that character from the entire movie?

For those of you who don’t know, there was a skeleton cowboy who told Eric what was happening and warned him not to stray from his path of revenge or be doomed to roam the earth forever (which was gonna be the ending because saving Sarah is a mission of rescue not revenge) and they were going to make two sequels with Brandon Lee (he had actually already signed the contracts before his death) about him roaming the earth until he finally reunited with Shelly in the afterlife.

I like the idea but something about being a skeleton cowboy seems a bit cheesy to me.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

When Lee died, there was no way that they could cast a different actor for the sequels, so the sequels died, too. There was, therefore, no need for the scene you describe.

[–] abbeyliz20 (14) 6 years ago

I know. But they did make sequels with a different character as the crow each time.

[–] AP (5288) 6 years ago

I've seen the raw footage of the Skeleton Cowboy. It looked a bit cheesy and I wouldn't be surprised if they were planning to scrap the idea regardless of Lee's death.

As for sequels, I think Eric's story had a definitive ending and we didn't need to see him roaming the Earth. I preferred showing other people resurrected by the Crow, although I would have preferred if it had been done better. The comic sequels from Dark Horse had different Crows in different time periods and I think that would have been interesting.

[–] newguy33 (354) 6 years ago

I agree, Eric as a vigilante superhero who's running around and saves the day is a weird idea.

The skull cowboy looked badass but also extremely cheesy in the deleted scene, I'm glad they cut him out eventually.

[–] AP (5288) 6 years ago

I should probably clarify. The look of the Cowboy was cool but when he moved around and talked, it looked very much like a prop skeleton moving around. They might have made it look good in post production, but in a movie like this, it could have broken the mood.

Also, I'm not sure if I wanted another supernatural character to give exposition and explain everything that was going on. We get the narration by Sarah at the beginning where she explains that the Crow brings back souls who will not rest so they can get revenge and that was all the explanation I needed. It gave the movie an air of mystique but revealed just enough to let the audience know why he came back.

[–] newguy33 (354) 6 years ago

I agree with you, the character was redundant.

[–] TandyMan (11096) 6 years ago

Interesting. I didn't know these were the plans. This is my maybe my favorite movie ever. I read all the comics and didn't actually like them that much. I thought it was impressive, the way they were able to take ideas from the comics and weave them into this film. If they had kept the cowboy and made sequels, I wouldn't have liked this movie nearly as much. The vaguery of the supernatural aspects of the movie is one of its strengths. If they started spelling out things out, you're suddenly leering into Spawn and Ghost Rider territory and it becomes much more of a fantasy tale, than one that focuses on ghost story standards of unfinished business and revenge.

But that's just for this movie. Unlike most, I actually liked the sequels and quite enjoyed the tv series. Were they to reboot, i'd actually want them to do all that nonsense rather than making a remake of this film. No point in starting over unless you're going to execute the full vision.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4493) 6 years ago

Cheese factor aside, the idea does sound intriguing. Glad it wasn’t in the film though. In the long run I don’t think this would’ve added anything to the story really. The film had the perfect ending.

[–] Moonglum9 (11267) 6 years ago

The skeleton cowboy idea was an improvement on the original plan to have Eric commune with an alien unicorn mummy that would float around and dispense Morgan Freemanesque intel.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

When I saw it, I thought it was photos from the set of House 2: the second story.