Tom Hiddleston could be The Crow

Tom Hiddleston is in early talks to star in Relativity’s reboot of The Crow, according to The Wrap.

Hiddleston, best known as Loki from The Avengers and Thor, has broken bread with the pic’s producers, and even submitted to them a home-made make-up test (which we’re going to need copies of, okay producers?).

Should he sign up for the flick, it will be the first spot of good news for this plagued production in some time.

Firstly – and most famously – this film follows in the footsteps of the 1994 feature in which star Brandon Lee was accidentally killed.

In April of 2011, the Weinstein Company – who distributed the original – sued Relativity for supposedly unlawfully shopping around this remake’s international distribution rights.

They dropped the suit in January of 2012, but by then, two directors (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and Stephen Norrington) and one star (Bradley Cooper) had already walked away.

F. Javier Gutierrez is now set to helm.

The Crow is based on James O’Barr’s comic series of the same name, concerning a man who returns from the dead to avenge the death of his girlfriend.