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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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Brilliant filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn is giving genre fans the gift of FREE horror films. The Drive director is launching a free streaming service, byNWR, dedicated to films that have flown under many genre fan’s radar. The service is being described as “an unadulterated expressway for the arts.” In an article he wrote for The Guardian, Refn stated: I want [the future] to be an uncontrolled place of beautiful chaos, where everyone can create their own universe and is free to speak their own mind, without being overseen by big business. A place of free speech and free access,” Refn told the site. “Over recent years, I’ve bought and had restored scores of old movies as a hobby. I wondered what to do with them. Then I realized I should share them for free, so I set up a website where they could be streamed. There’s no catch; you’re not being sold anything. Take it or leave it.” “I hope
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Amazon has released the teaser trailer for Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn‘s upcoming series “Too Old To Die Young“. Refn directed and co-wrote the 10-episode first season with co-writer Ed Brubaker (Westworld, Captain America: Winter Soldier). “The series explores the criminal underbelly of Los Angeles by following characters’ existential journeys from being killers to becoming samurais in the City of Angels.” Miles Teller, Jena Malone, William Baldwin, Celestino Corneille, Nell Tiger Free, John Hawkes, Kegn Matungulu, and Callie Hernandez star. “Too Old To Die Young” is set to premiere next year.
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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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The first trailer for the highly-anticipated arthouse horror film The Neon Demon, from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, has just been released. Nicolas co-wrote the film with Mary Laws and Polly Stenham. Keanu Reeves stars along side Abbey Lee, Jenna Malone, Christina Hendrick, Elle Fanning, and Desmond Harrington, among others. In the film Jesse, a young model, moves to LA and falls victim to a group of parasitic, beauty-obsessed women who will go to any length to stay young and beautiful. The Neon Demon will premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, followed by its theatrical debut this June.
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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
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsStreaming TV
Brilliant filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn is giving genre fans the gift of FREE horror films. The Drive director is launching a free streaming service, byNWR, dedicated to films that have flown under many genre fan’s radar. The service is being described as “an unadulterated expressway for the arts.” In an article he wrote for The Guardian, Refn stated: I want [the future] to be an uncontrolled place of beautiful chaos, where everyone can create their own universe and is free to speak their own mind, without being overseen by big business. A place of free speech and free access,” Refn told the site. “Over recent years, I’ve bought and had restored scores of old movies as a hobby. I wondered what to do with them. Then I realized I should share them for free, so I set up a website where they could be streamed. There’s no catch; you’re not being sold anything. Take it or leave it.” “I hope
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Amazon has released the teaser trailer for Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn‘s upcoming series “Too Old To Die Young“. Refn directed and co-wrote the 10-episode first season with co-writer Ed Brubaker (Westworld, Captain America: Winter Soldier). “The series explores the criminal underbelly of Los Angeles by following characters’ existential journeys from being killers to becoming samurais in the City of Angels.” Miles Teller, Jena Malone, William Baldwin, Celestino Corneille, Nell Tiger Free, John Hawkes, Kegn Matungulu, and Callie Hernandez star. “Too Old To Die Young” is set to premiere next year.
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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
Continue reading →
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The first trailer for the highly-anticipated arthouse horror film The Neon Demon, from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, has just been released. Nicolas co-wrote the film with Mary Laws and Polly Stenham. Keanu Reeves stars along side Abbey Lee, Jenna Malone, Christina Hendrick, Elle Fanning, and Desmond Harrington, among others. In the film Jesse, a young model, moves to LA and falls victim to a group of parasitic, beauty-obsessed women who will go to any length to stay young and beautiful. The Neon Demon will premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, followed by its theatrical debut this June.
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