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The Crowmovie reboot has lost its hotshot Jason Momoa and director Corin Hardy . If that judgment of conviction sound familiar , it ’s because this is far from the first sentence the project has fall back its fundamental creatives ; this is n’t even the first clip that Hardy has exited the picture . However , despite its well documented struggles to get off the footing , The Crowreboot was closer than ever to becoming a real thing in recent months . The plan was for Hardy to start shooting the film in Budapest this summer , witha Fall 2019 freeing datein mind and Momoa starring as the hit player turned revengeful specter , Eric Draven .
James O’Barr ’s 1989 comedian bookThe Crowfirst made the leap to the big screen in 1994 with Alex Proyas ' cult hit film version star Brandon Lee ( who was infamously killed by a defective blank shell during production ) . Three critically - derided sequels to Proyas ' movie were secrete over the decade that followed , before plan were made to boot the serial from the ground - up . Filmmakers Juan Carlos Fresnadillo ( 28 Weeks Later ) and F. Javier Gutiérrez ( Rings ) were attached to the project in the years before Hardy signed on , with several actors - Bradley Cooper , Luke Evans , and Jack Huston among them - circling and then start out the reboot , over that same period of time .
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Momoa and Hardy apparently came close than anyone before them to breaking this cycle onThe Crowreboot , but they too have now left the project with its wheels spin . According toDeadline , their departure was motivated by originative and fiscal departure with the reboot ’s financier Samuel Hadida , the head of Davis Films . Hadida had yet to shut a hand with Sony to distribute the film worldwide andDeadlinesays the studio was on the verge of provide the project , which in bit spur Momoa and Hardy to move onto green lea . Whether that was the case or not , the end resolution putsThe Crowback at square one ( again ) .
UPDATE : Momoa has further reassert his expiration fromThe Corvus , via the followingInstagrampost :
Both Momoa and Hardy will be hold on busy later on this class promoting their new projection ; Momoa is star in James Wan’sAquamansolo film in December , whereas Hardy hasThe ConjuringspinoffThe Nundue to open in field of operations in September . At the same time , the pair now have big openings in their 2018 schedules , assuming thatThe Crowdoesn’t manage to make a providential last - minute recovery ( which , give the reboot ’s unknown history , is n’t out of the question either ) . Hardy is very much an up and comer and Momoa remains an in - need lead , so their fans can expect to learn more about their new plan in the foreseeable future .
As forThe Crowreboot : after so many start and stops , one has to wonder what it will take for studio apartment to finally spell off this speculation as a lost grounds . Fans of both O’Barr ’s source comic and Proyas ' movie version have never exactly been chomping at the moment ( in large turn , anyway ) for a reboot andThe Crowhas always been a craze prop , not one with mainstream appeal . That ’s reason enough for Hollywood to let this one rest in peace of mind and move on but , as the history of the labor itself is a testament too , the odds are n’t necessarily in favor of that bechance here .
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