Having gone through a number of directors and leading men over the past few years, production on Relativity Media’s long-gestating remake of The Crow was suspended earlier this month, owing to the company’s bankruptcy. However, according to The Crow creator James O’Barr, the film could find itself resurrected elsewhere, and “definitely will happen.”
“It’s still very much a live property,” said O’Barr at the Twin Tiers Comic Con (via Comic Book). “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.”
Corin Hardy (The Hallow) remains attached to the project as director, although it is currently without a leading man after Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire) vacated the role of Eric Draven.
Originally published August 18, 2015. Updated April 15, 2018.
