Maniac Cop
TheManiac Copremake seems to be dead , according to serial creator Larry Cohen . Cohen is the prolific director behind B - movie gems likeQ : The Winged Serpent , The StuffandIt ’s Alive . He also wrote the screenplays forPhone Booth , Best Sellerand the originalManiac Coptrilogy . TheManiac Copfilms follow a former extremely decorated police military officer , who was framed by his section and finally murdered in prison house . His hatred makes him come back to life , where he stalks New York and murders both guilty and innocent alike .
All three pic were directed by Bill Lustig , with the 2d movie being considered the good in the series , and is loaded with groovy action setpieces and stuntwork . Drivedirector Nicolas Winding Refn is a particular sports fan of the enfranchisement , and after years of trying to get a remaking off the solid ground it was confirmed in March the task had received a greenlight .
That does n’t seem to be the face any longer - because in a fresh audience withBirth . Movies . decease , Cohen states the moving picture is n’t go ahead after all :
“ As far as I know , that ’s not bechance anymore , and if it is , they might be try out to keep it a mystery , as they ’d owe me $ 250,000 … ”
Cohen is n’t on the button heartbroken about the project stalling either , claiming that he was n’t a lover of the screenplay that had been write byEd Brubaker :
" Ed Brubaker wrote the hand , and I ’ve read the script , and it ’s not very undecomposed . Ed Brubaker is a very skillful author of comic books , I think . But if he ’s pen a good script for a movie , I have n’t record it . I pen six new scene for the picture , based on what I ’d read . And , had I write the whole playscript , the movie would probably be happening , as the script would be good . I wrote three films for Bill Lustig , though they change a lot of [ Maniac Cop 3 : Badge of Silence ] and Bill got discharge from it … and I would ’ve written the fourth movie , had they asked . But they did n’t , and now it ’s not getting made . "
He also briefly describe the account for this new take :
" … It ’s a wad like that Bob Hoskins movie [ Neil Jordan ’s Mona Lisa ( ’ 86 ) ] , where he ’s driving prostitutes around and then expect out in the machine while they do their business in hotel with the Johns . It ’s a direct lift from that , and then turns into a new Maniac Cop … ”
It would be a actual pity of the project has drop dead , because it attracted some bright talent . Would - be - manager John Hyams is creditworthy forUniversal Soldier : RegenerationandUniversal Soldier : 24-hour interval Of figuring ; two of the best straight to DVD activeness movies of the last decade . Brubaker is also the acclaimed writer behindCriminal , Incognitoand a number of famed stories forCaptain AmericaandThe Uncanny ten - Men . The mind of Refn , Hyams and Brubaker collaborating on a gamy thriller sounded amazing , so hopefully it will still come together .
In any result , it seem Cohen wo n’t be mourning the loss of theManiac Copremake as he ’s currently busying prepping a ten - episodeanthology serial , which is being produced by J.J. Abrams .
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