{"id":2420,"date":"2012-04-18T17:25:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T23:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2012-04-18T17:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T23:25:04","slug":"new-maniac-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=2420","title":{"rendered":"New Maniac Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNicolas Winding Refn made his name with stylish, arthouse-friendly spins on lurid B-movie material with films like Pusher, Bronson, and, of course, Drive. Now the Daily Grindhouse (via Badass Digest) reports that he may lend some of that same postmodern class to one of the most lurid B-movies to ever tantalize teenagers at the local video store. Writer-director Larry Cohen and producer William Lustig say that Refn is in talks to join the remake of\u2014or as Cohen calls it, \u201cprequel\u201d to\u2014Maniac Cop, their examination of the inherent human flaws in local law enforcement as embodied by a hulking, deranged police officer who kills people in gruesome ways. Cohen admits it\u2019s not yet confirmed that Refn will be involved, nor has the film\u2014which Cohen promises will have \u201ca bigger budget\u201d than the original and its sequels\u2014been \u201c100-percent signed off\u201d on, so at this point it\u2019s all just a bizarrely intriguing suggestion. But given Maniac Cop\u2019s zeal for genre tropes and pulsing synthesizer score, you can see why Refn might be interested. And as with the Evil Dead remake, you can probably expect some premature enthusiasm from Bruce Campbell any minute now.