Bill Skarsgård Transforms in First Trailer for The Crow

Bill Skarsgård and FKA twigs lead The Crow from director Rupert Sanders, who reimagines the James O'Barr graphic novel for the big screen.

Following soulmates Eric Draven and Shelly Webster, who are brutally murdered, The Crow sees Eric, who - given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself - set out to seek revenge, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.

The first retelling of The Crow took place in 1994, with Brandon Lee leading the Alex Proyas-directed feature.

Now, Lionsgate has shared the brutal first trailer of Sanders' 2024 adaptation, giving us a taste of the dark undertones and harrowing action flooding the film.

Skarsgård said he "was a huge fan of the original film" and is "honored to take on the role of Eric Draven".

"I felt a responsibility to Eric's story and endeavored to stay true to the spirit of the source material," Skarsgård said. "I can't wait for the world to see the film, and hope it resonates with audiences as strongly as it did with those of us involved."

FKA twigs said, "I am so thrilled to be in The Crow alongside the talented Bill Skarsgård and extraordinary director Rupert Sanders."

"The love Bill and I share on screen is effortless and indicative of the authenticity and ease that I dreamed of bringing to the role of Shelley," she continued. "Eric and Shelley's unbreakable unity is so profound and beautiful, something I hope we all feel at least once as part of the human experience. I am so excited that the trailer is being unveiled and even more excited to have the world see the film this summer."

First-look images from The Crow hit the media last week, showing Skarsgård and FKA twigs in character as Eric and Shelly.

Director Rupert Sanders is thrilled with his actors, saying, "Bill Skarsgard is so committed and vulnerable, monstrously violent and delicately tender, he brings so many layers to the complex emotion of a man consumed with so much love and hate".

He said of FKA twigs, "FKA twigs brings the same unique and wondrous talent that she does to her entire volume of work and her performance and the vacuum created by her absence undoubtedly gives reason for this Crow to be born."

Sanders said of his reimagining, "This story is as universal as an epic poem or Greek myth, it deals with the very primal, naturalistic emotions of love, grief and rage and it also deals with the supernatural and physiological imaginings of heaven and hell, the dead and the undead. It explores the great positive force of love and the great negative force of rage and hate that stands in its shadow, it asks what would we do, but also what would we have become by doing so."

The Crow hits theaters on June 7.