Ike Barinholtz says he was writing the film, but the plans were scrapped following the death of Michael Brown. The new Police Academy would have been a "dirty, rated-R, modern" version. "As we were ...

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A 2010s reboot of "Police Academy" was canceled after a tragic real-life incident sparked a national debate about the police use of force. On the June 17 episode of the podcast "Funny You Ask with Ike ...

A reboot of the cult-comedy franchise Police Academy was scrapped after the 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Comedy writer Ike Barinholtz revealed on the Funny You Ask podcast that he was hired ...

Steve Guttenburg, the star of the Police Academy movies, has confirmed that another is in the pipeline. Guttenberg, who played the wise-cracking Officer Carey Mahoney, revealed the plans in a Twitter ...

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Ike Barinholtz says he was writing a "dirty, rated-R, modern" version. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele were set to star in a new Police Academy movie, until the 2014 killing of Michael Brown led ...

"As we were developing the film, Mike Brown got shot, and we were making the movie for Key and Peele," Barinholtz shared. "And all of a sudden people were like, ‘We’re not making a cop comedy right ...