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Nicolas Winding Refn’s Maniac Cop reboot is dead

October 1, 2017 by Gary Collinson

Having spent several years in development, it was reported earlier this year that the Nicolas Winding Refn-produced Maniac Cop was set to finally move forward this summer under director John Hyams (Universal Soldier: Regeneration) from a script by Ed Brubaker (Captain America: The Winter Soldier).

However, since then we’ve had no further updates, and it seems the project may have fallen apart, with Larry Cohen – screenwriter of the original film – has told Birth.Movies.Death that he believes the remake is dead.

“As far as I know, that’s not happening anymore, and if it is, they might be trying to keep it a secret, as they’d owe me $250,000,” said Cohen. “Ed Brubaker wrote the script, and I’ve read the script, and it’s not very good. Ed Brubaker is a very good writer of comic books, I think. But if he’s written a good script for a movie, I haven’t read it. I wrote six new scenes for the picture, based on what I’d read. And, had I written the whole script, the movie would probably be happening, as the script would be good. I wrote three films for Bill Lustig, though they changed a lot of [Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence] and Bill got fired from it…and I would’ve written the fourth movie, had they asked. But they didn’t, and now it’s not getting made.”

Cohen also went on to blame Refn for the project stalling, adding that: “As far as I know, he was the one trying to get the money raised to make the picture, and he didn’t get it, so now it’s not happening. If it is, I would like to be paid, or I’m going to call my lawyer, and it’s getting shut down.”

Are you disappointed that we won’t be getting a new Maniac Cop movie, or was the project unnecessary from the start?

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Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: John Hyams, Larry Cohen, Nicolas Winding Refn

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