Attention: Crow Fans: Audio Commentary is On!

The issues have been worked out. Tomorrow Mark Dacascos and I will be recording the audio commentary for the July 24 DVD release of "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven." The company producing the DVD is Hart Sharp Video out of New York.

In preparation, I've been having a Crow Film Festival at my house. I'd forgotten how hard we worked, how many small details we sweated and how good the series was overall. We did it on a budget, with a lot of obstacles, but it came out great.

The trio of actors -- Mark Dacascos (as Eric Draven/The Crow), Marc Gomes (as Det. Daryl Albrecht), and Katie Stuart (as Sarah Mohr) -- really were great individually and as a team. They came across so authentically real in scene after scene.

Let me tell you a sidebar -- it also illustrates why you can't believe everything you see on Wikipedia. I'm looking at their entry about the series and it gives break-out directing credit to a guy who did one episode (not even the pilot which was done by Kari Skogland), mentions our Canadian line producer Gordon Mark (a great guy, by the way) as the sole producer, implying he was also the creative producer when even he would tell you he wasn't, and  doesn't even mention a single writer anywhere. My name isn't even mentioned in this box but I wrote the pilot and wrote or re-wrote most of the episodes and executive produced the series. It also says "The series was intended as a follow-up to the 1994 film" which is just not true. We started the Eric Draven storyline from the beginning and changed a great many things. Remember that Eric Draven was first in the comics, then in the films and, with STH, also on television: each version was different.

Back to doing the commentary. I'm looking forward to it. Obviously lots to talk about...