The Crow Reboot Reportedly Back in Development

The long-delayed, constant setback-experiencing reboot of The Crow is giving it another go, according to a new report. Bloody Disgusting reports that the film is once again back in active development with Samuel Hadida’s Davis Films, Highland Film Group and Electric Shadow still involved in the project.

The Crow reboot has had a path to the big screen that can only be described as “torturous.” 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.

A new writer and director will be sought for the film, which seeks to re-adapt the James O’Barr graphic novel that became a cult hit in 1994 starring the late Brandon Lee.