has been a long-time passion project for Refn. It was originally announced as a feature at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. A first-look deal Refn’s Rocket Nation had inked with Vendian Entertainment and Wild Bunch was to provide financing for Space Rocket’s features, starting withParlty based on William Lustig’s 1988 cult classicwas to be directed by Hyams.
“I’ve always been a devoted admirer of John Hyams,” said Refn. “We’ve been talking about a re-imagining of thefilms for a number of years, but as we continued to work on the material, we found ourselves wanting to explore the world we were creating in greater depth. Turninginto a series will allow us to realize our wildest ambitions and to reach an enormous audience though partners HBO and Canal+. This show will be an unadulterated, action-packed horror odyssey.
Refn will serve as showrunner with both Refn and Hyams directing the entire season. In addition to Refn and Hyams, executive producers are Nick Hall, Lene Borglum, Frederic Fiore, Alex Gayner, Efe Cakarel and William Lustig. The series will be shopped by Logical Pictures to foreign broadcasters at the upcoming MIPCOM market.written by Larry Cohen, starred Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, William Smith, Robert Z’Dar, and Sheree North. It did not do particularly well at the boxoffice but eventually became a cult hit, spawning two sequels,Subscribe to
DeadlineNellie Hello, ICYMI Could you write an English article? Still not found these news in English 😩
Bruce Campbell? 😎😎👍👌
skream_kween Oh this is gonna be good! Till then- try out this spooky watch trending now on amazon. Trailer-
This is going to be the most insane thing HBO has ever touched. Also, it would be extra cool if they found a role for GroovyBruce too!
PRAISE
HUGE
Must SEE !
NicolasWR YUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! My all time favorite director!!! I can’t WAIT.
GraceRandolph This is 💯 my thing!
E aqui o trailer do MANIAC COP original pra quem não sacou o que vai rolar...
Husipeixtwiiter
Yooooooo
This could be Dark and lovely
This is random.
brwc Didn't think the PC nutjobs would allow for such a accurate provocateur title. Very 80's. I like.
Cool. I’ll watch whatever that dude makes.
Woah!
DJ_Keyser is shaking in his boots right now!
Whenever I hear Nicolas Winding Refn’s name, I can always picture the most messed up stuff possible like his films. The motel scene and elevator scene in ‘Drive’. The pool scene and ending of ‘The Neon Demon’. And I heard there’s some messed up stuff in ‘Only God Forgives’.
I think?
botticelli_bod
This shit's going to slap
Is there a computer with enough power to replicate Robert Z'Dars chin?
now that is 200 IQ
Holy shit yes!
joeynutcrack
That's just a normal cop.
WHAT? that sounds great
Bless Up.!
NicolasWR thank you Lord Refn.
Didn't know I wanted this
FuckCinephiles NWR ruined the ending of his last show, I'm not watching his works anymore
Hopefully it moves just a hair faster than too old to die young. I have insomnia and that show knocked me out hard.
No Robert Zdar No Maniac Cop
Oh that’s is extremely exciting!
TheChewDefense 'Reboot' so Robert Davi is in it? ...
I definitely gotta check this out
That...could be fun, actually.
Nicolas Winding Refn's Maniac Cop? This should be...different.
Fasten your seatbelts! Oh yeah!
Entertainment Entertainment Latest News, Entertainment Entertainment Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: Variety - 🏆 108. / 63 Read more »