Call it bad luck, poor
production team, or otherworldly interference, that fact is that the most
recent attempt at adapting James O'Barr's
late 80's graphic novel The Crow to the big screen has been hitting
walls since 2011. Back then, a lawsuit over the rights to the property
threatened the existence of the reboot, and since then we have seen delays push
talent away, which in turn delayed the project even more.
The reboot never really took off the
ground, but a couple of weeks ago news that the studio behind the project, Relativity
Media, had filed for bankruptcy seemed like the final nail in the coffin for
the dying project, but it appears it wasn't.
"It’s still very much a live property," said
O'Barr last weekend during a panel at Twin Tiers Comic Con in Elmira, NY. "The company, Pressman Films, that owns The Crow film and TV rights, licensed it to a
studio named Relativity. And Relativity made like a hundred bad movies and lost
money so now they’re in financial trouble. So the producers are just going to
take it to another studio if Relativity can’t get backing again. It’s going to
happen. I talked to Pressman Films a couple of weeks ago and they said within
two or three weeks, we should have it placed at a new studio. Because the day
Relativity announced that they were having financial problems, there were like
a dozen other studios that called about getting The Crow property. it definitely will
happen."
As far as I
know Corin Hardy is still attached to direct the reboot but we will have to wait to
see what studio picks up the project, and if they want him at the helm.
Source - ComicBook.com
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