As befits a film series based on a comic book about a man who gets murdered and then really kicks into high gear, killing bad guys and executing vigilante justice while dressed like Marilyn Manson and whatnot, The Crow franchise refuses to go away, despite star Brandon Lee’s infamous on-set death, the most notorious event of its kind this side of The Twilight Zone Movie. 

Swiss actor Vincent Perez stepped into the lead role for 1996’s The Crow: City Of Angels. In 2000, an even more obscure actor tackled the role of an undead goth with anger-management issues when Eric Mabius starred in The Crow: Salvation, while troubled actor Edward Furlong put on the face paint for 2005’s The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which enjoyed a one-week engagement in a single theater before being dumped onto home video. For those keeping track, that’s four different stars for four films, and that doesn’t even count the Canadian television adaptation that ran in 1998 and 1999 and—wait for it—featured yet another new lead, this time in the form of Double Dragon star Mark Dacascos, a sub-Expendables C-list action hero (and Iron Chef America chairman). 

Now Edward R. Pressman, the producer of all of The Crow movies, has announced that the long-rumored remake of The Crow (cleverly titled The Crow) will begin filming next spring with yet another actor taking over the lead role. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Pressman frets, “It still has a big fan base even though it was so long ago. But the generation today doesn’t even know The Crow.” (“These kids today! They know nothing of The Crow, with their baggy pants and dubstep music and Snapchat dick pics!” we imagine him continuing.)

The new Crow movie briefly threatened to become interesting when it was announced musician and filmmaker Nick Cave was working on a screenplay, but the latest reports have Cliff Dorfman (an actor-writer whose resume includes being a staff writer for Entourage and working on the script for the well-liked 2011 drama Warrior) handling that, so adjust your expectations accordingly. And hey, if this one stiffs, they can always make another one with a new lead actor.