Looks like the remake of “The Crow” is picking up steam! The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Bradley Cooper has been approached to take on the title role. According to the article, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo met with Cooper in Spain and talked over the film and the character. Sources have said that Cooper is “keen” to come aboard the film. If he signs on, Cooper will take on the role Brandon Lee left behind after a tragic and freaky on-set accident which took his life. Last week, it was reported that Fresnadillo, who has also directed “28 Days Week Later”, had been signed on as the director of the…

Relativity Media’s President of Worldwide Production Tucker Tooley and “The Crow” franchise producer Edward R. Pressman have handed the reigns to “28 Days Later” director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to direct a reinvention of “The Crow”. Fresnadillo will collaborate with the writer once a writer has been chosen for the project. Relativity and Pressman will also work with Spain’s Apaches Entertainment on the production. Filming is set to start fall 2011. “Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is an incredibly talented and imaginative filmmaker,” Tooley is stated to say in the press release. “We are thrilled to have him at the helm and are excited to work with both Pressman and Apaches on what…

Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who last directed “28 Weeks Later” in 2007, the sequel to the British horror hit, has been attached to help develop a remake of sorts of the classic “X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes” with MGM. Lou Arkoff will be executive produce the project, and Mandeville Films partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman will be producing with Enrique Lopez Lavigne. “X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes”, also known simply as “X”, is a science fiction/horror movie from 1963. It was directed by Roger Corman, from a script by Ray Russell and Robert Dillon and starred Ray Milland as Dr. James Xavier, a scientist…