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Set The Reboot-O-Tron To: POLICE ACADEMY!!
Merrick here...
Paul Maslansky, who produced seven POLICE ACADEMY movies between 1984 and 1994 (as well as a 39 episode animated TV series based on the same, and a 26 episode PA live-action series) ain't done yet. He's pulling together a fresh iteration of the concept for New Line.
"It's going to be very worthwhile to the people who remember it and to those who saw it on TV," Maslansky said. "It's going to be a new class. We hope to discover new talent and season it with great comedians. It'll be anything but another movie with a numeral next to it. And we'll most probably retain the wonderful musical theme."
The early entries in the series featured sexual humor, but later films became more kid-friendly. Details of the tone of new movie, which would take the story to its beginnings with new characters, were unavailable.
...says The Hollywood Reporter HERE.
The first two POLICE ACADEMY movies were brought to us by The Ladd Company- who also produced higher-brow fare like THE RIGHT STUFF, OUTLAND, BRAVEHEART, and BLADE RUNNER. I seem to recall hearing that THE RIGHT STUFF was pretty-much a non-starter when released in 1983 (I'm not saying this cruelly - it's my third favorite film of all time behind A CHRISTMAS STORY and THE WIZARD OF OZ), and that the first POLICE ACADEMY film made so much money that it essentially paid off The Ladd Company's RIGHT STUFF deficits...or something like that.
Will the concept be as warmly received this time around? We'll see...
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The early entries in the series featured sexual humor, but later films became more kid-friendly. Details of the tone of new movie, which would take the story to its beginnings with new characters, were unavailable.
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Like a knee-jerk reaction, the Police Academy theme song is playing through my head as I'm reading this article
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It's not the same without him.
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no. Really. No.
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Who knew?
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Well i just hope they can get a good crew of people to make a movie so bad its legendary.
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Then I don't want to have anything to do with it.
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...mommy...mommy...make the bad remakes go away...please mommy....
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Jones.
Larvel Jones.
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That's all I'm saying...
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Perhaps a cameo from someone from the original cast.
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reboot naked gun while you're at it! NO WAIT, I WAS ONLY KIDDING!!!! NOOOOO! WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!?!?
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Mar 05, 2010 9:58:01 AM CST
"Why did I take you to all those 'Police Academy' movies?!"
by anna valerious
"FOR FUN?! You didn't hear anyone else laughing! Well, maybe at the guy who made the sound effects..."
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I was really surprised at the sexual humor in them. I guess most of my memories are from the later moves with Loyd Brawn. Although, they were progressive with the gay humor and the bar "The Blue Oyster".
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Adam Baldwin for Tackleberry!
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And they they can stop remaking them? And by "these" I mean remakes/reboots? I guess if it's some relative unknown like The Crazies or something, or they do something inspired or even just radically different with a timeless story, then I really don't care.Still, if we just support originality, won't the movie execs eventually get the picture and start supporting creativity and new, more original ideas?-Cheers
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according to imdb, Maslansky also wrote many of the episodes of the live-action Police Academy series that starred Joe Flaherty. Yeah, I never saw it either.
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Mar 05, 2010 10:12:39 AM CST
Michael Winslow was probably the greatest class clown
by thebitchuation
ever. I wish I could have been in his elementary school back in the day.
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He's a well-fed guy, so I doubt he'll take the gig.
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Phantasm is on my list, only if they friggin' give us reasons for whats going on...anyone else?
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Part 2 was PG-13 and all subsequent movies were PG. The first Police Academy may be the first R-rated video I ever rented.
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"When I first heard that Marge was joining the police academy, I thought it would be fun and zany, you know like that movie... "Spaceballs". But instead it was dark and disturbing, like that movie "Police Academy."
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Mar 05, 2010 10:15:11 AM CST
First two were great comedies. 3 and 4 were enjoyable.
by hint_of_smegma
Everything else was awful but I've no hope a reboot will be any better. the first four are still played on my DVD spinner yearly and don't deserve the disdain so many seem to hold for them.
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Please>?I'm GOING TO BE THE GUY that decides it's time CEREAL FUCKING CHARACTERS got there shot! Board Games,Disney fucking rides,reboots of 1980's classics...WHY NOT? Coming soon in 2011...The Nautical master finds himself shipwrecked on a mysterious island.There he finds the solace needed to slave over a secret concoction he calls "crunch".While earning mastery over his delicious creation, he stumbles upon a bloodthirsty tribe that have long inhabiated the island.There name? He dubs them "soggies" (cue blaring trumpets)...March 2011, we sail the sees with CAPTAIN Horatio magellan Crunch!!! Will they get his crunch? And furthermore..what's the secret behind the admiral's fancy hat? Find out,when you fucking hire me hollywood!
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He's like the Arthur P. Jacobs of crap.
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Lucky:The Rise of the Charms.
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And David spade
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For over 5 centuries he was pursued.Mistaken for a murderer.Secretly he craved a sweet nectar.They thought he wanted blood.But chocolate was his sustenance...but if he was to lift the curse, he could never reveal his love of the cocoa nectar.
COMING.SOON.
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Stop the madness! Are there no new ideas?
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Officer Achmed
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I guess you can say that of tons of early 80's movies, but these don't hold up well at all.That being said, bring back Guttenberg. Seriously.
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or I wont pay to see it
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Mar 05, 2010 10:29:47 AM CST
IDEAS???>? pfffftttt.. Why bother? We have pre-exsisting
by idrinkyourmilkshake
properties. Uni-blab from the Jetsons? Already being made into a feature. Coco-cripsies? the cereal you fucking ate when you were 6...coming to a theater near you.Frnaken-Berry and the gang too! Yay, rebbots!
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It's inevitable.
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Leslie Easterbrooks tits. MMmmmm. din dins
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I have to admit I love the first film.If you can't laugh at the blowjob scene then you are either a)humourless or b) dead.
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...doin' stupid fuckin' sound effects??? God, NO.
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http://www.facebook.com/groups/edit.php?officers&gid=10150117501950397#!/group.php?gid=10150117501950397
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Would be really crap. But betya they're considering it.
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Howard Stern owns the rights to Porky's and Rock and Roll High School...
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There was a TV series too?
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After all, why the hell not? Nobody's childhood will be raped. It's not like they're remaking a classic of western film.
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ONLY when flipping through the channels, or waiting for somethign else to come on. Not memorable at all. Aside from remembering it was out there.
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...they could reboot Paramedics, or Young Doctors in Love.
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Mar 05, 2010 10:37:23 AM CST
Will the climactic chase feature the CN Tower in background?
by royston lodge
That's a requirement for a Police Academy movie.
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They have potential to be good, real good. BUT if they are gonna water them down like everything after 3, forget it. We want a hard "R" rating. give us dirty jokes, and bathroom humor.
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Knew about RRHS, didn't know about Porky's. Thanks.
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Yeah, the world was really cryin' out for this. The news made me thrash around on the floor, clawing at my face. Originality takes another sucker punch to the groin. You must be at least THIS stupid to rider the crest of the latest retreaded pop wave. I hate this trend worse than I hated algebra and if it had possessed a navel, I would have shit it there. Remakes, BAH! STOP! STOP OR I'LL PEE IN YOUR SHOE!! -
Police Academy 12: Because all our careers died and we're homeless.
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OLD, PENNILESS CAST VS. TIRED, APATHETIC AUDIENCE.
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No, I won't set the reboot-otron. I'm just not that interested. I only saw the first couple PAs anyway. And if they insist with a remake, Guttenberg and Jaws ought to have cameos.
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it should be good
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She's got a sense of humour, right?
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...The ghost of a kid/ cardboard cut out of Danson...
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If it's gonna be a new class, set phasers to sequel. Guttenberg as the new Commandant. Cameo by Kim Cattrall and Leslie Easterbrook's breasts. They should go all out. Is Zed still alive?
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when it doesn't actual say reboot anywhere, if this is a new character torch passing type situation, that makes it a sequel. I think you just love typing reboot-o-tron and pissing people off, though it may be entertaining for you, it's no way to deliver the stale crumbs of news we bareley get around here.
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and bring back Sharon Stone
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I admit, I kinda knee-jerked hated this, but it's not really a property that was a lively pit of invention anyways. This might turn out more in tune with the first movie which was fucking hilarious. As a kid, I liked the sequels, but actively dislike them now. I'll reserve actual judgement on this until I see how the casting goes.
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Wow, we were like five for five this week on retarded remake/adaptation ideas. Impressive even for Hollywood standards. Fucking idiots.
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Let him go all out with extreme vulgarity and this has a chance of success.
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Just no. Please stop plundering. All the decent ideas have already been 'reimagined' and you're simply shit-mining now.Leave the Bolivian marching powder alone for a few days, cut down on the caffeine and regain your inner calm. You'll soon be back in the real world again.
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If Bailey (Fight Club, Band of Brothers) plays Mahoney, it'd be like Guttenberg never left.
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No way will they be able to assemble a cast, script and direction to match those movies. Podium blowjob is classic. I say at least cast Ian McKellan as the chief. I think he could pull that off pretty well.
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I don't need to see Tackleberrys berries
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Mahony Mahony Mahony ... Mahony
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Then, as predicted by the elders, the sun will explode and this planet will die a quick dark death.
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WHY??? WHY????? WHY????
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WEIRD SCIENCE, only this time its two nerdy girls who make Zac Efron on their PC.
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ADAM BALDWIN FOR TACKLEBERRY!
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Not even close. It's just that it's time, money, and effort that could be put into something we have not already seen before. I could care less that they remake movies except that it robs viewers from the chance of seeing something new. This could end up being funny, but it could also deprive us from some other potentially great movie that doesn't have the name recognition.I'd rather support something new and not just a lazy retread of a story that has already been done. If these "reboots" were not going to prevent other movies from being made (which they will) then I would not care. But they will, so I do. It'd be paramount of Shakespeare writing Hamlet, MacBeth, or Romeo & Juliet, he just rehashed somebody else's play and did it as his production. Sure, it might be good, but his stuff was great and never would have been created.-Cheers
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Getting mad at this is like getting mad if they announced a new sequel to Tremors. It's not as though this is some prestigious franchise whose integrity will be soiled by making another entry.
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... that if they keep the unforgettable theme, then they MUST keep the Blue Oyster theme... if, indeed, the Blue Oyster Bar features in this project-because-they've-run-out-of-other-ideas.
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I'm so conflicted.
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In your hearts, you know I'm right.
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i never knew. i used to watch the cartoon every day before school though, my friend even had a few of the action figures.
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Remake some of my favorite drive in experiences of my childhood.Kingdom Of The SpidersWith cgi, they won't have to run over real tarantulas with cars! (it was a different, P.E.T.A.-less time)The Giant Spider InvasionWith um...cgi they won't need to put fake fur and giant metal tubes on a volkswagon to make a giant spider!(I swear to God they did this)Aaahhh...sweet memories of my South Texas Drive In.
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i can totally see it, the presence and body language of Magneto mixed with the absent mindedness of his character from The Shadow.
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Can you imagine McKellan in the blowjob scene?Now...this first SLIDE!!!!
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Of a French movie.
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I used to love these movies as a kid. I could never understand why my father loathed going to them...until I grew up. Then I felt guilt for the pain that was inflicted upon him!
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Mar 05, 2010 11:53:03 AM CST
Speaking of black guys making sound effects...
by shut the fuck up donny
I want a remake of Disorderlies.
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mostly dancing
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Last I heard Howard Stern was making it.
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The first Police Academy was a classic. The rest are shit.
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I laugh every time
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already this is lookin to be an awesome remake!
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What'll they do, ruin it? It's fucking POLICE ACADEMY. This is exactly the sort of thing they ought to be remaking. And I'm done with the "reboot" word games. It's a remake. Call it nothing else.
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It's going to be a very graphic POV shot.
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you know it to be true
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The original was delightfully un-PC and chauvenistic. That's what made it work. Why do I doubt that this remake will be anything close?
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Begins. The horror horse has been so brutally raped and beaten to death. An entire generation has grown up on it. The genre needs to take a vaction. Theres hardly any cool must see horro's in the works. The older fans are trapped in nostalgia land. They have nothing new to feed on so they cling onto the older classics as "the films that got it right"
Now it's time to bend over Comedy's and Hip flicks of the 80's and do the same. But get this. It wont find the same gotta see it response that the horror remakes did. I fucking promise you that! -
Childhood classic. First time I ever saw Bobcat. Have loved him ever since . . .
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Check it out. It'll make your bulls suck back into the fiery chasm from which they came...
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www.imdb.com/title/tt1346302/
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allowed to rent. They pretty much sucked after the first and maybe the second. Too bad someone feels the need to flog a dead horse. What happened to the people with original ideas? Have they all flocked to some other profession?
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Woo Hooo !!!
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Perfect.
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Please, Ricky needs work!
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The revolution in Hollywood has no use for people with original ideas. They were all rounded up and shot. Every time you purchase a ticket, you help defer the costs of the bullets.
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But ................................................... I don't know. It's hard to pull off what Guttenberg did, cuz he did it so damned well. Ryan's a little too stiff for that part. I like him stiff, though.
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Because I tell you, the subway is rife with comedic situations.
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Incompetent people in management positions. Look around your office and tell me I'm wrong.
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Michael Strahan for the role of Hightower!
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People are actually welcoming these remakes now..."why not? nobody's childhood will be raped." Why not? Because there's a million great unproduced scripts sitting in the vaults of every major studio, but they refuse to take chances on any of them. They could turn struggling screenwriter's lives around, yet they choose to remake everything known to mankind. Fuck Hollywood!
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What's it like?
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And he'll suck at it.
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Ugh. Please, give us some good old fashioned R rated humor.
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When they say a new class of comic actors, this who they probably mean.And we all have a right to get pissed off, because even if we don't see it, we'll be inundated by the horrible trailers on TV for a month prior to this abortion's birth.
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Mar 05, 2010 2:17:10 PM CST
I wouldn't mind seeing Leslie Easterbrook's boobs now.
by mastersofnonepodcast
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Louis CK as Tackleberry....
So Weird. When I read the THR article last night I was thinking the exact same thing.
If they can get the right script and cast together this could really work.
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Shame about Tackleberry.
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Now, as long as this isn't a straight up remake, with a new Mahoney and Jones and Tackleberry, then it's fine. I mean you can keep the theme music and maybe have some cameos, but as long as it's a new cast of characters, it could be good. But they need a funny cast, not Jamie Kennedy, Bobby Lee, Paul Scheer, Carmen Electra or anyone like that. Get a good cast and it could be an ok franchise.
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nuff said.
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you know it's going to happen.. George has got to be thikin' about just scratching everything out and redoing it all over again!!
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Given that his last directorial effort was 2002's Oscar worthy classic P.S Your Cat is Dead I think this reboot is in safe hands.
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is actually sorta genius.. but you never know.. they might bring Howard Hessman back.. Halloween 2 was his comeback baby!!
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wouldn't touch this movie with Stifler's dick.. on that same note I bet it'll be Stifler as Mahoney..
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Actually I can. Look, every time someone welcomes something like this, a kitten is run over by a steam roller. Stop it. Just stop it.
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Surprised AICN isn't running that story.
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and that will be one sad day
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Guess I'm too young.
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Then they probably should just scrap GBIII and go directly to a remake/reboot. And why stop there?. Isn't it time to remake Gone With the Wind, with Eddy Murphy as a cool slave lecturing Charlotte (Sandra Bullock? Weaver?) on the evils of capitalism? It could end with all the white people leaving the south and the black left behind to live in harmony with nature.
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Mahoney: Joel McHale
Tackleberry: Danny McBride
Zed: Dan Fogler
Jones: Aziz Asnari
Hightower: Shaq
Hooks: Rashida Jones
Totchi: Bobby Lee
Harris: Gary Cole
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CHARLIE TUNA:rise of the dolphin.
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if this really has to happen.
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right now begging to be involved.
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and Corrdry for Cap Harris.
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So is the return of my breakfast.
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on of these days we will come on this site and it going to say: Godfather remake
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"This next SLIDE.... shows a very... interesting thing." Fuck all haters, the first one is a classic 80's comedy. It's worth it for the blowjob scene alone. This remake, however, will be as forgettable as any of the 1.2 million Police Academy sequels that have already been made. Get ready for some unfunny PG-13 fluff.
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Fuck that shit.
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in the Murray and Raimis roles, respectively. Or maybe Rudd and Segel. Faison Love will be the John Candy role. Bruce Willis will play Sgt. Hulka. Mila KuNips and Elizabeth Banks/Kristen Bell will play the hot chicks they meet up with in Italy (or it'll probably be the Middle East; expect LOTS of Jewish humor!). "Stifler" will play "Francis." Jason Bateman in the John Larroquette role. This thing casts itself.
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There was 27 of them already, the last 23 of them (or so) were freakin' awful. Plus, these films actually perfectly represent the god awful 80's. They deserve to stay there. Very. Bad. Idea.
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I would imagine.
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Fucking YAWN.
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Mar 05, 2010 5:52:59 PM CST
Kicking buttski. Making you laughski. The Academy is backski!
by the_crimson_king
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The man is determined to piss on hismlegacy.
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Why not combine both needless remakes into one film?
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that I have never purchased the DVD for a rebooted series. Hollywood has ZERO creativity these days and I refuse to support it with my hard earned dollars.
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I did buy Star Trek...but that's not necessarily a straight reboot as much as it is a funky sequel/prequel/whatever.
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that was a great part with that cool guy.
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...this.
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I kinda like this idea. I mean come on, it was really crappy the first time but still entertaining and funny. As long as they don't try to get any more serious with it i'm on board...???
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Mar 05, 2010 7:20:36 PM CST
too bad first showing broke this yesterday with exact same headl
by helveticaconspiracy
aint-it-cool news is really sucking on the 'news' part of the site, lately.
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I really hope this doesn't happen, that would be a fucking travesty. Speaking of travesty, why the fuck so we have to go to Latino Review to read about shit like this? AICN is really starting to become pretty lazy. I love all of the TBers on this site. They're are some really funny, talented folks around here. But, I think we're all becoming enablers. It's like we're propping this site up. I don't know. It's easy to say I'll stop posting, then end up writing something tomorrow. But, maybe it's time to send a message. Not out of hate, but out of concern over a once-great institution that is starting to flounder. Kind of like Star Wars.
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...filled with article from "spies" (which is to say talkbackers). Now you rarely see one. AICN has got to find things to post somewhere. Otherwise there would only be a few new articles and reviews each week.
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If they are gonna do it, make it 8... Mahoney (Guttenberg) as Captain recruiting some young scrote into the fold... Have Harris as the commendant, got what he wanted but knowing he can never fire mahoney cos he owes him something... Bring back Zed, Jones and Callahan... and leave it at that... new kids... maybe Kim Cattral as the commish (so there is somethign for Mahoney) and job done..
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best 80's movie song ever? Well, no. But it makes me laugh just thinkin' about it.
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Yamma Yamma Yamma Yammmmmma
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Surely with Brian Backer would have been a better joke than the Leatherface crack they tried...
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Evil thought... Ricky Gervais in this... or even worse RUSSELL BRAND!!! Have to have an english villain after all...
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Mar 05, 2010 7:57:39 PM CST
I would like to see this or the Naked Gun movies remade with an
by oogles
I honestly think they should add a heavy action element to this if they are going to remake.
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Hows that gonna work... Mahoney dies in the first reel? Sweetchuck ends up in a coma?
The closest the series got to real danger was 2... and even then the baddies were inept...
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... and throw in a Bones Brigade reunion.
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Entrainment Weekly is reporting a "Rome" Feature film set in Germany with the original cast
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Mar 05, 2010 10:01:27 PM CST
"Oh Officer Mahoney, come inside, please, have some lemonade"
by beyondthunderdome2girls1cupbillcosby
"I love lemonade, not tart, not ..."
"... not too sweet, just mm mm good"
"glub glub glub braaaap"
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Finally a film franchise worthy of Rob Schneider.
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BEFORE I BLOW YOUR GOD-DAMNED BALLS OFF ASSHOLE!! The first PA was classic, it had vulgarity, humor, and best off all it had boobies. The rest were trash.
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For God's sake add it to your tb's! These boards are crawling with grammar police, which is evident in every tb for your reviews.
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Mar 06, 2010 12:46:20 AM CST
IMO obviously Steve Carrell may be in consideration
by gibsonusa returns
That seems logical
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Mar 06, 2010 12:47:54 AM CST
and get Chyna from the WWF to be the tough cop lady.
by gibsonusa returns
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Mar 06, 2010 1:04:15 AM CST
The first one is actually pretty decent.
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
THAT SAID they do get progressively worse. I do crack up everytime Bobcat screams at the little guy with glasses who's name eludes me at the moment.. Chipmunk, no. Pipsqueek, don't think so. HELP ME PLEASE!
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If we're gonna reboot cheezy 80's shit...based soley on awesome THEME MUSIC...where is my goddamn REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES?!!!
I mean...it said...right there on the final title card "To Be Continued"...and Remo's theme totally kicked Police Academy's ASS!
This is a waste of time. PA & Porky's were lightning in a bottle. Made for a different era...and should remain there.
Still waitin for a Smokey & The Bandit reboot...Ryan Reynolds is the Bandit...Matthew McConahey is the Snowman...Anne Hathaway is Froggy...and Kevin James is Buford T Justice.
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Police Academy. Wow.
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Fuck that makes me laugh.
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I kind of like both of those ideas.
A REMO remake would be great with a better budget and interesting tweaked story.
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We could have Sugar Bear as a '70s blaxploitation pimp.
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The suits in Hollywood have finally resorted to looking for gold below the bottom of the barrel.
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Cant wait for the ACTION JACKSON, COBRA and SPACEHUNTER:ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE remakes. The future is bright kids!
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Only this time let's make him the true unstopable killing machine he was in the books. Someone alert the producers of Kick-Ass.
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Carey Mahoney: Zach Braff
Traddeus Harris: Ben Stiller
Eugene Tackleberry: Adam Baldwin
Moses Hightower: Michael Strahan
Larvell Jones: Michael Winslow
Karen Thompson: Jessica Biel
Debbie Callahan: Kate Beckinsale
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Christina Hendricks for the role of Callahan.
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Yea...I picked Kevin James only for his 'girth'...I was trying to imagine someone a lil pudgier than Gary Cole (who would be awesome). The only other guy I could think of was Jack Black...and I don't think anyone wants to see that. Maybe Louis CK? With Jonah Hill as his son/deputy?
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Would be Jason Segal. I think he could do the character some justice. I have a feeling it will end up being Jack Black thou.
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once we stop paying for this shit maybe Hollywood will actually make ovies that matter, or at least stopo the insanity with the ummm re-boots, re-makes, whatever you want to call them
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And called it Super Troopers.
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Bobcat saying that to his gang who are wrecking the supermarket was ASWESMOE
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This might be better than the Midnight Run sequel.
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Right. And maybe after that monkeys will fly out my butt...
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Stop, just fucking stop. This shit is way outta hand. Does Hollywood need a story, because I got thousands. Are they going to remake Airplane as well? Shit, I just gave a slack-jawed exec his quota.
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Is it just me, or does the theme music for Police Academy sound similar to Jerry Goldsmith's Patton theme?
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Three men and a teenager ... Cocoon:The Returners ... Batteries not required ... Short Circuit ed .... robocop and a 1/2 ... Coming on America .... erm ....
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... parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 were.
Remember part 5, code name Assignment Miami Beach, a typical example of how unfunny this movie was is when Lassard is walking through the airport near the beginning with his golf bag over his shoulders with golf balls falling out, and unbeknown to him, people are falling over them, in a very fake and deliberate fashion. I remember one fall looked so staged ... home alone slipping on micro machines this was not.
Now remember part 6, City under seige? no nor do i. ok i do, but for all the wrong reasons. that movie was so incredibly unfunny that I thought it couldnt get any worse .... it did, with Mission to Moscow, which rightly killed the franchise. and i'm sure Ron Perlman was in it. -
...let's face it, they've always done them. Shit, I think the Maltese Falcon was a remake. Though it's less necessary now that you can pick up the original pretty much anytime you want. I just wish they would stay away from true classics. This? I don't care.
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Hollywood has been remaking movies and adapting material since the beginning. Hell, the 1941 Maltese Falcon was the second time the book was filmed (the first was only ten years earlier). And, of course, the classic movie monsters have been made and remade going all the way back to Thomas Edison's Frankenstein. The difference is that pre-1980s there weren't home videos and 24 hour movie channels to rewatch the "originals" whenever you wanted. Now everyone thinks the version they grew up on is somehow sacrosanct. Or they lack the sense of history to realize that remakes were always going on.
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It'll prolly be fair, but not quite as funny as the originals. Anyone else expect to see Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Ricky Gervais, Paul Rudd, Jason Segul, Justin Long, and Adam Sandler in this? lol
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Mar 07, 2010 5:07:02 PM CST
Must have the random Ninjas like in 3 and 4
by beyondthunderdome2girls1cupbillcosby
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Pretty much nails it right there.
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Let's face it: Goodman's had quite a ancillary career playing variations on Jackie Gleason.
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Not sure who to cast as Dr. Banzai, but I"m guessing that it can be done.
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@OutsideChance: No way! Burt Reynolds as Smokey. He's too old to play Bandit again, but would probably wanna be in it. lol He was still in "The Longest Yard" remake. :p
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Not that four year waste of tv.
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If they used this just as an excuse to have an ensemble team of top comedians doing their thing - ie new characters, new everything... then it might be interesting. But no one of the calibre needed would ever sign up to a Police Academy remake. And they'd better get some world class tits to play Callahan if not.
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I mean, the series has been downhill ever since part two...
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Gotta quote John Lithgow in RAISING CAIN: "Don't be so obvious!"
Ian McKellen as Lassard, however? That's borderline genius. -
Mar 08, 2010 3:01:18 PM CST
How about a remake of Moving Violations with Zach Galifinakis? L
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Great message for kids.
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Will I ever set foot in a cinema again?
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