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MANIAC COP Lands At Wild Bunch For Int’l Sales, Shoots This Summer In Los Angeles

Back during Fantastic Fest in 2015, John Hyams, the genius director of Universal Solder sequels – Regeneration and Day Of Reckoning, was attached to direct a forthcoming remake of William Lustig’s 1988 cult horror classic, Maniac Cop. Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, The Neon Demon) launched financing efforts for the film the following year at Cannes while the film still needed backing with all the right pieces and people in place. Thus, the word now is the film has officially been greenlit according to Variety with Wild Bunch handling international sales of the film. Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Angel Of Death scribe Ed Brubaker is penning the script which will trade away Lustig’s horror-toned millieu for a more realistic, contemporary action thriller that will center on a dilligent female Los Angeles detective determined to uncover the mystery behind a spate of murders of innocent people allegedly at the hands […]

Refn Launches Partnership, Financing For Hyams's MANIAC COP Reboot

Lee B. Golden III

Horror fans lit the internet up late last year when it was revealed that filmmaker John Hyams was set up to helm the Maniac Cop revival with Drive and Only God Forgives helmer producing. Nowadays, you’ll find Refn at Cannes promoting his latest horror flick, The Neon Demon, while you can now expect a slate of titles to come from Refn’s latest shared partnetship via his Space Rocket Nation banner with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch. As per Deadline‘s latest report on the matter, the first one out will be the forthcoming remake of William Lustig’s original 1988 horror flick. This time, Ed Brubaker’s script will forsee the story of a female Los Angeles cop bent on uncovering the truth to stop a madman in police uniform from spilling innocent blood. The film is expected to be the first of a trilogy and will roll cameras this summer with Lustig […]

FANTASTIC FEST 2015: John Hyams To Remake MANIAC COP

Lee B. Golden III

If there was ever a director who has proven the ability to reach down the throats of cult fans with sheer cinematic veracity, it would be none other than John Hyams who, in the wake of films like Dragon Eyes and with his father Peter Hyams at the helm for Enemies Closer, garnered much fan fervor for reviving the Universal Soldier franchise in brutal and fantastic fashion. As of late and now with Fantastic Fest in full bloom, the word now is that Nicholas Winding Refn is currently in charge of a remake of the 1988 cult classic, Maniac Cop, for which the younger Hyams is now tapped to direct from a script by Ed Brubaker. William Lustig directed the first film with actor Bruce Campbell in the role of a cop framed for the death of his wife and forced to unfold a police cover-up conspiracy involving a near-invincible […]