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Director Confirms ‘Maniac Cop’ Remake Still Happening

Several years ago, it was announced that a Maniac Cop remake was in the works, but there’s been no update in a long time. Recently during an interview with The Movie Crypt, John Hyams (Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning) who is set to direct the film gave an update. It will be a completely different thing tonally,” Hyams told the show. “I think that’s why I was hired. I think the reason why Nick was interested in me was because he saw what I had done with Universal Soldier, in the sense that I took it and made it my own and went completely off the reservation with it. Nick Refn loves exploitation cinema as much as the next guy, but he also is not interested in paying homage to things. He loves Maniac Cop, he loves the idea of it, he loves everything it represents, but he has no intention of making a tribute story.” We’ve spent the last

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 22, 2018

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‘Maniac Cop’ Is Going To Stalk The Streets Again – A New Reboot Is Coming

Last year we told you that a remake of Maniac Cop was on it’s way. After a long delay, it is finally entering production. The film will be a modern adaption of William Lustig’s 1988 genre classic, with Nicolas Winding Refn (The Neon Demon) and Lene Børglum (The Neon Demon) producing. John Hyams (Z Nation, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning) will be directing from the script penned by Ed Brubaker (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) and Refn, Variety reports. Set in the present day, Maniac Cop follows a L.A. police officer who is determined to reveal the truth about the brutal murders of innocent people by one of her fellow cops. Unlike the original, the reboot of the film will not be pure horror, but more of a “contemporary action thriller”, which will make it very different from the original. In the 1988 version, an ex police officer is killing people on the streets. Jack Forest (Bruce Campbell) finds himself

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 24, 2017

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The Maniac Cop Remake To Begin Filming This Spring

The first promotional art for the remake of ‘Maniac Cop’ has been released and the film is slated to begin filming this spring in New York City. The remake of the 1988 cult classic is being directed by John Hyams (Universal Soldiers: Day of Reckoning), based on the script penned by Ed Brubaker . William Lustig, the director of the original, will be serving as producer for the film. The original film stars the late Robert Z’Dar, along side Bruce Campbell, Tom Atkins, Laurene Landon and Richard Roundtree. The cast for the remake has not been announced at this point, but should released soon. In the 1988 version, people are being murder in plain site by a man in a police uniform. Officer Jack Forrest has been set up and must begin his own investigation to try to clear his name.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Nov 15, 2015

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‘Universal Soldiers’ Director Set To Remake ‘Maniac Cop’

Producer Nicolas Winding Refn announced at Austin’s Fantastic Fest that a remake of 1988’s ‘Maniac Cop’ is now in the works and John Hyams is set to direct. Hyams has quite a bit of experience when it comes to engineered characters, he directed two of the films from the ‘Universal Soldier’ franchise. In ‘Maniac Cop’ an ex police officer has been turned into a killing machine and is killing people on the streets. Jack Forest finds himself the main suspect for the killings, but detective Frank McCrae doesn’t believe it. Together Forrest, his girlfriend and Detective McCrae set out to find the real killer before he can strike again. The original cast includes Bruce Campbell, Tom Atkins, Laurene Landon, Robert Z’Dar, and Richard Roundtree and was directed by William Lustig.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 27, 2015

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