The long and sometimes tragic history of The Crow has begun a new chapter.

After 20 years of false starts, the original story will be told again from the beginning in a new film from Lionsgate, directed by Rupert Sanders from a screenplay by Zach Baylin and Will Schneider.

Bill Skarsgård stars as Eric Draven, who along with his girlfriend Shelly Webster (played by FKA Twigs) is brutally murdered. And then, according the the film’s official synopsis, “Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.”

Danny Huston, Laura Birn, Sami Bouajila and Jordan Bolger also star.

The character, created by James O’Barr in a comic book published in 1989, was first played on film by actor Brandon Lee in 1994, but tragically, Lee was killed on set by a misfiring prop gun. Multiple sequels followed, including The Crow: City of Angels (1996) with Vincent Perez, The Crow: Salvation (2000) with Eric Mabius, and The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005) with Edward Furlong. Each of the sequels was a continuation of the story with different characters returning from the dead as The Crow.

A short-lived TV series starring Mark Dascascos as Eric Draven called The Crow: Stairway to Heaven was a reboot of the original story.

In the new film, when Eric returns from the dead he’s endowed with supernatural powers – undead, he can never be stopped by any weapon. If the trailer is any indication, the movie will be ultraviolent and gory: in one scene, Eric is surprised from behind by an assailant and he shoots through his own chest to kill the attacker.

The Crow flies into theaters on June 7th.