Relativity Media’s long-in-development reboot of The Crow, based on James O’Barr‘s 1989 independent comic book miniseries, has seen its fair share of talent attach and detach from this troubled project since it was first announced nearly three years ago.

First Stephen Norrington, the director of Blade and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, was given the directing reigns with screenwriter/musician Nick Cave (The Proposition) on scripting duty, but both left the project when the development stalled.

Last we heard, the planned remake of the 1994 Alexander Proyas title starring Brandon Lee, The Crow, was facing its possible demise by way of legal battles after The Weinstein Company presented to the court their case for owning full rights to distribute the movie globally, and seeking that production be halted on the project.

Since then the two parties have been going back and forth (we’ll touch more on that below), but none of this is preventing Relativity Media from continuing to put their pieces together on the film. It’s being reported that the studio has hired screenwriter Alex Tse to work on the script, which would follow his work on the Zack Snyder adaptation of the classic Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons graphic novel, Watchmen.

Tse joins director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Days Later), and yes, Bradley Cooper (Midnight Meat Train, The Hangover), who is still attached to star in the remake should the Weinsteins lose their case.

Fans of Anime films will be thrilled to learn that Warner Bros. has announced their intentions to bring a live-action Ninja Scroll movie to life with Alex Tse — who also wrote Watchmen — taking the writing duties. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is producing the film.

Yoshiaki Kawajiri‘s Ninja Scroll follows a ninja who saves a girl from captivity from a giant man with rock-hard skin who took the girl after killing the group of ninja she was with while they were investigating a strange plague. After these events, the ninja and the girl embark on a journey that includes fighting demons, crisis and the previously mentioned plague.