Bill Skarsgård (Pennywise from IT) will lead The Crow remake

After years of trying, Hollywood is finally going to remake The Crow, with IT’s Bill Skarsgård as the lead.

The Crow, an action movie about a heavy metal guitarist who rises from the grave to get revenge on the gang members who killed him and his finance, made a big splash when it cameo out in theaters way back in 1994, both because audiences responded to its grimdark style and because star Brandon Lee, son of actor Bruce Lee, died in an accident on set, which gave the film a huge boost in publicity. Many sequels were produced over the years to vastly diminishing returns, and Hollywood has been trying to reboot the story in some form for over a decade. All efforts have failed…until now.

The A.V. Club reports that a Crow is reboot is going forward under Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders with a script by Zach Baylin, who was just nominated for an Oscar for King Richard. As for the star, it’s Bill Skarsgård, of the Hollywood Skarsgårds. Skarsgård has a fair number of roles under his belt, but who are we kidding? Pretty much everyone knows him as Pennywise, the child-eating horror clown from the recent IT movies.

Y’know, maybe Pennywise and Eric Draven aren’t as different as they first might appear. Or at least, they both wear a lot of white face paint.

There’s no release date for The Crow remake as of yet.

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