I really don't see how Lustig can have any creative investment in remaking Maniac. Just like us, he can't imagine anybody but Spinell as Zito. And Maniac doesn't have a particularly original plot to begin with, so it's not like he's gonna be "revisioning a a classic story" or anything. Updating it may result in something akin to the original, but it will more than likely end up being severely altered. Of course, they'll have to slap the Maniac title on it in order to sell it to genre fans...fans who don't want it remade in the first place. Ugh.
"The MANIAC remake keeps threatening to happen,” Lustig told Fangoria Radio. “I’ve been talking [with various parties] for nine months to untangle the rights. I think it will happen.” Companies in the U.S. and Europe have been vying to update his gory slasher hit starring Joe Spinell, though Lustig admits that the late actor, who also co-produced the 1981 film, is irreplaceable. “I can’t imagine anyone else in that role,” he said.
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