It was announced just yesterday that Corin Hardy will be directing the latest adaptation of James O’Barr’s The Crow, making him the third director attached in the past few years.
Now, it looks as if the reboot needs to find a new star, again.
While Dracula Untold‘s Luke Evans was to play Eric Draven, it now sounds as if Relativity will need to start yet another search.
“It’s not [progressing], no,” Evans told Den of Geek. “No, at the minute The Crow is not, not for me, I think it’s a little… I mean I’m sure it’s going to go ahead at some point, but I have other projects that are greenlit and ready to go and projects that I’m very interested in and you know, I can’t wait much longer!”
Evans exiting the adaptation would mean he’ll be joining the likes of Mark Wahlberg and even Bradley Cooper, who were both at one point attached. Tom Hiddleston still would have been the best choice (go see Only Lovers Left Alive).
“The Crow” is about a murdered man who comes back for revenge, which was first brought to the screen by director Alex Proyas and the late actor Brandon Lee.
