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'Maniac Cop 4' Update, 'Maniac' Remake Announced
Monday, September 22, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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This past Friday director/DVD distributor William Lustig chatted with fans on Fangoria Radio where he revealed that he will not only be working on a fourth MANIAC COP film, but also will be remaking MANIAC, his first genre effort from 1980 where a schizoid serial killer randomly stalks and kills various young women in New York, which he sees as revenge for the mistreatment he got while being raised by his own abusive mother. Read on for the skinny!

"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.

While they work on getting this made, Lustig talked a bit about the progress of MANIAC COP 4:

We’re going to reinvent the series with MANIAC COP 4,” Lustig said, adding that original actor Robet Z’Dar will not be donning the blue uniform again. “We want to start fresh. We replowed the field already.

Source: Fangoria Radio

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thedescent08
5:34pm, September 22, 2008

The only way this could benefit from a remake is if they make it really, really brutal and violent. i doubt that will happen though if it becomes a studio film. Also announced recently were remakes of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER and CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG. Have we really run out of fucking ideas? Seriously...


Butters
5:50pm, September 22, 2008

Ok, seriously; if you have to do a remake, at least do a remake of a film that is in NEED of a remake.


thedescent08
6:00pm, September 22, 2008

Exactly. I have a whole list of movies that would seriously benefit from a remake. If CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST gets remade I am shooting myself in the head.


Evil_Flip
6:28pm, September 22, 2008

it's pathetic really. and I have to say that sequels way to late haven't done well with me either (Indy4, die hard 4). So I'm not getting exited before I see this.


QuietRobert
6:30pm, September 22, 2008

How can they not bring Robert Z'Dar back? The man is Matt Cordell! And the guy could use the work, seriously!!


ziltoid the omniscient
6:47pm, September 22, 2008

Fucking pathetic.


Halloween_Night
6:55pm, September 22, 2008

omg just say you're gonna remake maniac cop 4. Please, "re-invent" things? Wtf? Maniac Cop 4 will be turned into a remake, mark my words.


CJ_01976
8:00pm, September 22, 2008

I can seee a re-invention of "Maniac Cop 4" being the best way to go. After what happened to Cordell in 3, there is no way he could come back for 4.


thedescent08
8:22pm, September 22, 2008

"reinventions/imagins" are even worse than remakes.


thedescent08
8:22pm, September 22, 2008

spelling correction: imagines


Demented D
8:27pm, September 22, 2008

You know they've run out of ideas since there's a Wizard of Gore remake...


thedescent08
8:45pm, September 22, 2008

yep, i agree. it was horribly boring and insult to the original.


Droogie13
12:30am, September 23, 2008

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.


ZombieHunter
12:58am, September 23, 2008

LOL this shit is crazy. if this film gets "remade" who the hell (besides crappy horror movie fans like us) would even watch it? they'll lose money for sure. bring back Campbell!!


korollocke
1:12am, September 23, 2008

i could go for another maniac cop flick.


H666
4:45am, September 23, 2008

what happened at the end of MC3 again?


H200
12:03pm, September 23, 2008

If they're not bringing back Robet Z’Dar, what's the fucking point of making a sequel? Son of Maniac Cop? Fuck it!!


ronfrrll
1:22pm, September 23, 2008

Why not a sequel to Maniac?


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