The Crow Reboot Moving Forward With Bill Skarsgard

The long-gestating reboot of The Crow is back from the dead again, with Bill Skarsgard set to star. THR reports that the actor, who played Pennywise in the IT films, is set to star as Eric Draven in the reboot with Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) set to direct.

This will be the latest movement on a project that has been in development for almost a decade and a half. The project was first announced back in 2008 when Stephen Norrington announced that he would write and direct a “reinvention” of the film, which would have been “realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style.” Relativity Media picked up the rights for the film but Norrington left in 2011.

Since then, the film has been a constant stream of starts and stops with a revolving cast and crew. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later), Francisco Javier Gutiérrez (Before the Fall), and Corin Hardy (The Hallow) have all been attached to write and direct over the years while Bradley Cooper, Mark Wahlberg, Luke Evans, Jack Huston, and Jason Momoa were all set to play the lead at times. The film went through issues with Relativity’s bankruptcy and was revived afterward, only to be on hold after Momoa and Hardy exited the project in May of 2018.

It was reported in January of 2020 that the film was back in development with Samuel Hadida’s Davis Films, Highland Film Group and Electric Shadow still involved in the project. Zach Baylin, who was nominated for an Oscar for King Richard, wrote the script for the new film.

The film is currently in preproduction with a June start date set in Prague and Munich, with the budget reportedly in the $50 million range.