10 Comic Book Movies That Will Literally Never Happen
2. The Crow
A remake/reboot of the 1994 cult classic comic book adaptation The Crow was first announced in 2008, with Blade director Stephen Norrington set to helm.
Norrington left the project in 2011, after which a number of different directors danced with it, including Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) and Corin Hardy (The Nun), while the likes of Bradley Cooper, Mark Wahlberg (!), Tom Hiddleston, Alexander Skarsgård, Luke Evans, Jack Huston and Jason Momoa flirted with playing protagonist Eric Draven.
Development was temporarily derailed by Relativity Media's bankruptcy in 2015, and though both Hardy and Momoa were committed to the project for the last few years, they ended up bailing earlier this year.
This shouldn't be a tough project to get off the ground, honestly, given its low budget and somewhat iconic branding, but clearly something just isn't gelling. If it hasn't been made after a decade's worth of attempts, it's probably never going to.