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Going into production early next year is Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek 2, the sequel to his Sundance Film Festival selection from 2005 that starred John Jarratt as the creepy Mick Taylor. With AFM kicking off this week, Darclight released the official shooting synopsis: “While seeking an authentic Australian adventure, one unlucky backpacker learns the deepest, darkest secrets of the Outback’s most infamous serial killer.” It looks like we’ll be getting a little history lesson for one Mick Taylor. Jarratt is confirmed to be returning.
Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, The Neon Demon, Her Private Hell) is gearing up to start filming his next movie Maniac Cop, a fresh take on the cult classic slasher from the 1980s.
It could still be several months before the production kicks off, but Nicolas Winding Refn has already taken to social media this week to show off a piece of very early teaser art.
Check out NWR’s Maniac Cop tease below and read on for everything we know.
First conceived as a feature then reworked as a series for HBO, the new take on the 1988 slasher is once again set up as a feature, with MUBI now on board to finance the movie.
From what we understand, a wide theatrical release is planned.
In the original Maniac Cop from director William Lustig, innocent people are brutally killed on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. A young cop, Jack Forrest (Bruce Campbell), finds himself marked as the chief suspect after his wife is murdered.
As Lieutenant Frank McCrae (Tom Atkins) investigates, the death toll rises and he suspects a mysterious police cover-up. This maniac cop (Robert Z’Dar) must be stopped, but it might not be so easy. He seems inhuman, and he’s ready to take on the entire police force.
“The concept has always appealed to me,” Nicolas Winding Refn said in a statement to Deadline last month. “In today’s political and social climate, the iconography of Maniac Cop alone provokes an immediate, uneasy reaction. I’ve been watching it all unfold while constructing this project in the shadows… waiting. Now, that moment has finally arrived.”
“The time has come to unveil a radical new vision where there is no protection, no safety net, only mayhem,” Refn’s official statement continued.
“Maniac Cop in Nicolas’s hands is not a remake. It is a resurrection,” said Efe Cakarel, Founder and CEO of MUBI. “Nicolas has one of the most dangerous imaginations in modern cinema, and he is exactly the filmmaker to reawaken something this iconic. We’re proud to be partnering with him on a film that feels bold, singular and impossible to ignore.”
Expect NWR’s Maniac Cop sometime in 2027.
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