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 ...

A 2010s reboot of “Police Academy” was canceled after a tragic real-life incident sparked a national debate about the police use of force. “Years ago, my partner and I got hired to rewrite ‘Police ...

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A planned “Police Academy” reboot featuring comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele was quietly shelved in the mid-2010s, not because of creative friction, but because the fatal police shooting ...

"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 ...