January 25, 2012

Is The Crow ready to fly once more?

Plans to remake and reboot the film franchise based on the cult favourite comic book The Crow are once again in the works now that a lawsuit over the property has been settled.

Industry trade magazine Variety reports that the legal battle between Relativity Media and The Weinstein Company over distribution rights to the movie has been settled out of court. The two companies have now agreed to once again work together on the picture.

Very shortly after that announcement was made, Relativity revealed that both a new writer and director have been hired to work on the flick.

Spanish filmmaker F. Javier Gutierrez, director of Before the Fall will now helm the picture, working from a script by Eragon scribe Jesse Wigutow. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gutierrez had been in talks for some time to take the gig until it was put on hold to sort out the legal tangles.

Based on James O'Barr's 1989 comic, The Crow tells the story of a Detroit musician who comes back from the dead to seek revenge on the murderous thugs who killed him and his fiancée.

A previous film adaptation of the story was a hit back in 1994 starring the late Brandon Lee, who was accidentally killed on the film's set.

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