The Crow: What Should Have Been

As an artist and a fan of The Crow, I've become very interested in what this film should have been. It's been documented on various websites that the original story of Eric Draven was going to star Brandon Lee in three films, not just one. The undead Draven was to be guided not only by the crow but by an otherworldly authority figure, who would encourage Draven at times but regulate him at others. As the original script was planned, Draven was to question the managers of the afterlife, constantly challenging them as to what he was allowed to do and what was verboten. Towards script's end, Draven, (having ignored his bosses too many times) had his supernatural abiltiies limited and was refused his final rest. The following two Lee/Crow movie's would have deal with his character wandering the earth for decades, handing out his own brand of justice, dead but still alive. In the third film, he was to have been granted his reward and be reunited with his fiancee, Shelley. 
The undead administrator who doles out this judgement on Eric is The Skull Cowboy, a rotting westerner dressed in cowhide. Many scenes with The Skull Cowboy were planned but only a few were actually filmed. Portrayed by horror/sci-fi icon Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes, Tales From The Crypt, Weird Science), the inclusion of this character would have dramatically changed this film. Had all of Berryman's scenes been completed with Lee, their addition to this film would have returned it to its original vision of a much more brutally horrific movie. Unrealized "animated" storyboards, completed, and composite scenes, can be viewed on YouTube and will give fans a taste of what they were denied.