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Bradley Cooper exits 'The Crow' remake
Published Tuesday, Aug 16 2011, 10:28 BST | By Simon Reynolds | 14 comments
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The Hangover actor was to have played a rock musician resurrected from the dead in director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo remake, but left the comic book project due to a scheduling conflict.
Cooper will instead star in Silver Linings Playbook for David O Russell and the big budget version of John Milton's Paradise Lost, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The Crow director Fresnadillo and backers Relativity Media are now targeting Mark Wahlberg and Channing Tatum for the lead role. Wahlberg was previously linked to the project before Cooper joined earlier this this year.
James O'Barr's cult comic story was first brought to the screen in 1994 with Brandon Lee in the lead role. Lee tragically died during the making of the supernatural drama when discharge from a blank bullet struck him in the abdomen.
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