“It's appalling to me,” Crowe said in an interview with television show Extra.
“(It) offends me very deeply, so awful that I have to deal with millions of people thinking I would dance on my friend's grave,” Crowe added.
Reports said Crowe was already in talks with Universal about playing Irwin. One story cited an anonymous “insider” who said Crowe once told Irwin that he wanted to play him in a movie version of his life.
Oscar-winner Crowe made a recorded tribute from New York for last week's memorial service for Irwin in Australia that brought the nation to a standstill.
“We have lost a friend, a champion. It will take some time to adjust to that,” Crowe said in the tribute.
Almost 170 old films from the Japanese colonial era have been preserved and repaired, and are currently being digitalized. The collection is expected to serve as an invaluable resource in historical research, the Council for Cultural Affairs said Wednesday.
A team from Tainan National University of the Arts (TNUA) spent three years repairing the 168 films -- released during the 1930s and 1940s when Japan ruled Taiwan. The collection includes documentaries, dramas, and animation, and are being restored under a program sponsored by the National Museum of Taiwan History.
The 70-year-old films were obtained from an antique collector in the southern city of Chiayi in 2003, with each film undergoing a complicated and time-consuming process of examination, repair and digitalization, said TNUA professor Ray Jiing, who headed the special team.
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