Much like its undead protagonist, The Crow reboot refuses to die. After going through a number of directors and potential stars including Stephen Norrington, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and Bradley Cooper, Relativity Media’s remake was slapped with a lawsuit from The Weinstein Company, who claimed that they owned the screen rights to James O’Barr’s cult comic book. It was starting to look like a new Crow movie just wasn’t meant to be, and I think a lot of people were okay with that. Well, this week that lawsuit has finally been settled, and although the terms were not made public, The Weinsteins and Relativity have confirmed that they will partner up for the film. More importantly, they’ve announced that they already have a new creative team in place with F. Javier Gutiérrez (Before The Fall) lined up to direct the film from a script by Jesse Wigutow.

Before the Fall (Tres Dias) is a Spanish-language film that got a lot of attention on the festival circuit in 2008. It is a post-apocalyptic thriller about the end of the world, but instead of focusing on action and mayhem it is about what people choose to do in the three days before a meteorite hits the planet. It was produced by Antonio Banderas but as far as I know it never received a theatrical release in North America, although it is now available on DVD through MPI Home Video.

As for screenwriter Jesse Wigutow, he wrote the 2003 film It Runs in the Family starring Michael Douglas but doesn’t have many other recognizable films to his name. Supposedly he was involved in the writing of Tron: Legacy, 8 Mile and The Ruins, even though he didn’t ultimately end up getting credit for them. He also recently did a rewrite on an upcoming remake of Robert Ludlum’s The Osterman Weekend.

In the end, I’m not sure that we can deduce much from this information. Both are essentially unknowns, and the real question is who will play Eric Draven? The press release claims that this will be a “gritty reboot” of the iconic character, but based on some of the leaked concept artwork, I don’t see how it could be any less ridiculous than the original. Are you still interested in seeing a remake of The Crow?