“The Crow,” a mature comic book film released in 1994, has seen a handful of soft reboots/remakes over the years with three follow-up installments and a Canadian television series “The Crow: Stairway To Heaven” led by actor Mark Dacascos (“John Wick 3”) that looked to first reboot the Eric Draven story. Played by the late Brandon Lee in the original film, Draven is an aspiring musician who is killed alongside his fiancee and is returned to the land of the living (via a supernatural crow) to get revenge against a local group of gangsters/thugs in Detroit. The long-gestating feature film reboot finally getting made was only just a matter of time and has gone through various stages over the years such as having actors like Jack Huston (“Boardwalk Empire”) and Jason Momoa (“Game of Thrones”) attached at different points to play the lead before eventually Swedish actor Bill Skarsgård (“IT”) landed the part for director Rupert Sanders (“Ghost In The Shell”).

The film had been seeking distribution partners and Deadline has revealed that Lionsgate has made a deal to handle the film’s domestic distribution as part of the film market linked to the Toronto International Film Festival with CAA Media Finance putting this eight-figure deal together.

Skarsgård had recently played the main villain of Lionsgate’s “John Wick 4” and joined the cast of Robert Eggers’ vampire pic, “Nosferatu.” Other actors among the cast of “The Crow” include FKA Twigs, Danny Huston, Laura Birn, Sami Bouajila, and Jordan Bolger. Production on the remake took place in Prague, Czech Republic, and Munich, Germany.

A release date wasn’t mentioned in the report, but it’s assumed that it could come out sometime in 2024.

Below is the logline for the original 1994 film:

The night before his wedding, musician Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his fiancée are brutally murdered by members of a violent inner-city gang. On the anniversary of their death, Eric rises from the grave and assumes the gothic mantle of the Crow, a supernatural avenger. Tracking down the thugs responsible for the crimes and mercilessly murdering them, Eric eventually confronts head gangster Top Dollar (Michael Wincott) to complete his macabre mission.

SOURCE: DEADLINE