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Inside the Magic says the 1994 movie, The Crow, which was based on a graphic novel by James o'Barr, looks to be remade 3 decades later, and if this is the news site to report on the topic, it's presumably going to be filmed by one of Disney's affiliates:

Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) conquered pop culture, comic book movies had an up-and-down success rate in Hollywood. DC led the charge with blockbusters like Richard Donner’s Superman (1978) and Tim Burton’s Batman (1989). Then, Marvel would have huge franchises with X-Men (2000) and Spider-Man (2002). This paved the way for the MCU starter Iron Man (2008). However, these hits would lead to an overflow of projects, which has been coined “superhero fatigue” at the box office. One producer now seeks to make the “Anti-Marvel film.”

Comic book movies were not always associated with superheroes. Many studios attempted to pull rich source material from adaptations from various comics. Unfortunately, their lack of a global brand outside the comic book world led to dismal box office numbers. However, many of these movies would become cult classics, like Touchstone’s Dick Tracy (1990), Disney’s The Rocketeer (1991), Universal’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010), and Miramax’s The Crow (1994).

[...] Lee’s death, coupled with the dark tone of the movie did not galvanize moviegoers to watch The Crow when it was released in theaters. However, good word-of-mouth would eventually build a devoted 30-year following that eventually led to Lionsgate acquiring the rights to do a remake. Snow White and the Huntsman director, Rupert Sanders, has helmed the project with It star, Bill Skarsgård, set to play the avenging aberration.

Wait a minute. Is the reason they're covering this news because the director of the live action Snow White remake also directed this adaptation? That can probably spell trouble for even the new take on the Crow, if audiences feel discouraged enough by his involvement, for what if the usual woke politics enters the Crow remake as well as a result of his influence? Also worthy note is that, IIRC, Disney bought out the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's original studio, Miramax, years ago, and so they might have certain rights to producing a new film under their affiliates.

We're way past the point where Disney and their affiliated studio brands can be trusted to deliver a quality adaptation of a creator-owned comic like this, if they're overseeing a remake of the 1994 adaptation. Besides, it's better to just look for reprints of the original GNs anyway. A new take on the comic would amount to little more than an "anti-comic" film, since the recent Marvel movies have only done a disfavor to comicdom itself.

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