The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Audio problem: When Pestilence puts the bug in his mouth, we hear a crunch as if he is chewing it, yet a few seconds later he spits it out and it is not chewed up at all.

Audio problem: When Lucifer runs the comb along his tongue, you hear the clicking of the "spines", yet he is running the other side of the comb along his tongue, so you should hear nothing.

Audio problem: The mine workers are chanting "Save our jobs" in the beginning, yet their mouths never match what they are saying.

Audio problem: Upon finding Lily's dead body, there is a wideshot of Jimmy carrying her, and he is sobbing "Oh my god. Oh my god." But his lips are not moving.

Audio problem: When El Nino is laughing after meeting Satan, when the camera cuts, you can see he is no longer laughing out loud, although his laugh is still heard.

Audio problem: When War gives his first "epic" quote at the beginning of the movie, there is a period of about a second and a half when his lips are not moving, then there is a cut, and they are suddenly moving.

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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