Dark Tower adds Writer, Bradley Cooper as the Crow?

Are you a fan of the Dark Tower series? Stephen King’s books are being developed both for the big screen and the small screen, bringing with them all the magic, sci-fi, and gun slinging goodness.

The Movie:

Things have been coming together for the projects. Rumor has it, actor Javier Bardem is closing in to possibly portray the star in the major motion picture.

The Show:

Today we also learned from Deadline.com in an exclusive, that “Mark Verheiden has been tapped to co-write with Akiva Goldsman the NBC TV series The Dark Tower.” Gee, I hope they subtitle the movie or the show soon so we can keep straight which specific project is being reported on.

The project is part of a massive joint deal Universal Pictures and NBC Universal TV Entertainment signed back in September to turn Stephen King’s opus of best-selling novels — which have sold more than 30 million copies — into into a feature film trilogy and a TV series, both of them creatively steered by the Oscar-winning team behind A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code.

The Crow:

That’s not all the paranormal showbiz news that’s fit to print. THR reports The Crow could be returning to a theater near you, and we are not talking re-release here, folks.

The comic book series was created by James O’Barr and was first adapted into a film starring Brandon Lee as Eric Draven, a rock musician who is revived from the dead to avenge his own murder. Lee was killed on the set in a “freak accident,” but in 1996 the sequel, The Crow: City of Angels, hit the big screen. Now the charismatic actor Bradley Cooper is being sought to star in another Crow film.

“The Spanish director of 28 Weeks Later is said to have met with Cooper in Spain recently, where the two hit it off and shared a vision for the character and the film. Relativity would not confirm the talks but sources say Cooper, currently in theaters in Relativity’s hit thriller Limitless, is keen to board the project.”

When we learn more, you will, too!