The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Continuity mistake: When War's truck drives out of the mine in the beginning, at first there are protesters a good ten feet away waving signs, but in the closer shot one of the protesters is waving a sign just about a foot or so away from his truck, without having any time to get closer.

Continuity mistake: When the bad guys first go to their hideout, War walks up to Lola. She goes from pulling gloves/bandages off her hands, to suddenly washing her hands between cuts.

Continuity mistake: When Jimmy first applies the black crow makeup, you can quickly see he draws a straight line, then a few shots later, it is a curved line.

Continuity mistake: Almost everyone in the bar disappears, even though it was full moments earlier.

Revealing mistake: When Jimmy and War are fighting over the gun near the end of the movie, you can see that many shots are reversed, as the fire behind them is not burning upwards like regular fire, but appears to be "sucking" downwards, back into the barrels.

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Jimmy Cuervo: Someone owes me two lifetimes and a set of perfect blue eyes.

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Trivia: The original script for this fourth entry in the series was titled "The Crow: Lazarus." It was about a wannabe rapper (who goes by the stage-name "Lazarus") who is murdered in a drive-by, and his journey to piece together the mystery of who set him up to be killed. The film was intended to be the first movie in the series with an African America lead, and controversial rapper Eminem was intended to play the villain. After the project fell apart, the script was hastily re-written to be (very) loosely based around a 2000 novel ("Wicked Prayer") inspired by the series, and the budget was drastically slashed, resulting in this film.

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Question: Originally this fourth "Crow" film was going to be called "The Crow: Lazarus" and be about a black wannabe rapper who is brought back by the crow after a drive-by shooting. Anyone know why this plot was dropped? Because it seemed to fit the material more than a movie about Satan and God.

Answer: As I understand it, it all had to do with a spat between the director of the original Crow movie (Alex Proyas, who had "approval" of all the subsequent Crow movies) the producer of the Crow movie franchise, Jeff Most, and Miramax. Miramax eventually caved in favor of the producer and it was made into a "non-Crow entity" when Miramax reportedly signed Eminem to play the bad guy.

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