To say the planned reboot of The Crow has had a troubled history is a bit of an understatement. Since it was announced in 2008, it’s road to the big screen has been beset with every problem you could think of, losing directora and actors, including Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, and Jack Huston, with alarming regularity. The final nail in the coffin seemed to come just a few weeks ago, when the studio that held the rights, Relativity, filed for bankruptcy. That seemed to be it. No more The Crow. But that doesn’t appear to be the case, with The Crow comic book creator, James O’Barr, stating at Twin Tiers Comic Con in Elmira, New York (via comicbook.com), “It’s still very much a live property”.
O’Barr went onto elaborate on where the rights to the property actually lie right now, saying, “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.”
