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After spending more than a decade in development, a long-awaited reboot of "The Crow" franchise finally hit theaters in 2024. But the new film was savaged by critics and rejected by moviegoers, ultimately earning less than half of its reported $50 million production budget worldwide. Now, star Bill Skarsgård is opening up about the movie's disastrous reception. During a recent appearance on the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast, the actor candidly acknowledged what went wrong.
Skarsgård said the experience taught him a valuable lesson: "I think the lesson was that I'm not signing on to anything without a finished script. But it's surprising how common it is that something gets greenlit and then you're struggling with finishing the script because the dates are already set and the studio's already locked everything in motion. And it's like, 'Oh, the script needed...' So that was something that Rupert Sanders and I just struggled with. We were like, 'Okay, the first script came in two months before we started to shoot.' It was an insanely rushed process in that regard. But I don't regret any of the roles that I've done. I think they could be good experiences, they could be bad experiences, but how you learn from them is really what it's about."