Corin Hardy Flies In The Director's Chair For THE CROW Reboot
It’s been twenty years since filmmaker Alex Proyas’s The Crow drew worldwide success at the box-office. Now, Relativity Media is amid efforts to reboot the original film since plans were intially announced in 2008, plans which have had their share of stops and starts between writers and directors coming and going.
This week however, award-winning filmmaker, music video director and multifaceted artist Corin Hardy is being reported to helm the project for Relativity with producers Ed Pressman, Kevin Misher, Ryan Kavanaugh, Jeff Waxman and Jeff Most, the latter who served as producer for the original film. The plan is to start shooting in Spring with Dracula Untold star, actor Luke Evans currently inheriting the lead role of Eric Draven with a script by Cliff Dorman, while other actors are still pending for other characters.
Based on graphic novel author James O’Barr’s 1989 comic of the same name, the first film featured lead actor and martial artist Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee, in the title role of Eric Draven, whose body reawakens, empowered by a mystical crow, to avenge his own death and that of his beloved in order to set the wrong things right. The film subsequently drew an immense cult following and worldwide box office success, purported mostly by news of Lee’s untimely death on the set of the film during a scene after filming most of the movie. Lee was 28.
Other actors to play the title role were Vincent Perez in the theatrical sequel, actors Eric Mabuis and Edward Furlong in the two direct-to-video movies that followed, and martial artist and actor Mark Dacascos in a televised expansion of the role Lee played.
The Ring helmer F. Javier Gutierrez, formally attached to direct, will be executive producing instead along with Tucker Tooley, Bob and Harvey Weinstein and Dan Farah, while O’Barr is currently on board as creative consultant. Hardy’s directorial debut, The Hallow, is set for release next year. In the meantime, you can read more about him at his official website by clicking here.
H/T: Deadline
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