{"id":558,"date":"2026-05-23T15:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2026-05-23T15:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:36:03","slug":"nicolas-winding-refn-sets-maniac-cop-with-mubi-goodfellas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Winding Refn Sets \u2018Maniac Cop\u2019 With Mubi, Goodfellas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nNicolas Winding Refn will direct a new version of \u201cManiac Cop,\u201d with Mubi providing full financing and a wide theatrical release commitment across multiple territories. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=556\">Grizz Chapman, \u201930 Rock\u2019 Actor, Dies at 52<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tGoodfellas is co-producing, and Veterans will oversee sales for the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRefn will direct and produce through his byNWR Originals banner. Christina Erritz\u00f8e and Kimberly Willming serve as executive producers for byNWR; Vincent Maraval executive produces for Goodfellas. Mubi\u2019s distribution footprint takes in North America, Latin America, the U.K. and Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Turkey, and Australia and New Zealand. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tProduction is set to begin in Los Angeles in January 2027, with cast and key creatives yet to be announced. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe original \u201cManiac Cop,\u201d directed by William Lustig from a script by Larry Cohen and released in 1988, centers on a series of murders carried out by a killer in a police uniform across New York City. The perpetrator is eventually revealed to be Matt Cordell, a decorated officer who was framed, imprisoned and left for dead by corrupt officials, and who returns disfigured and vengeful \u2013 targeting the guilty and innocent alike. The film tapped into contemporary anxieties about police brutality and institutional corruption, became a cult phenomenon and spawned two sequels. Refn acquired the rights more than a decade ago and has been developing the project since.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe concept has always appealed to me,\u201d Refn said. \u201cIn today\u2019s political and social climate, the iconography of \u2018Maniac Cop\u2019 alone provokes an immediate, uneasy reaction. I\u2019ve been watching it all unfold while constructing this project in the shadows\u2026 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\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=554\">Netflix Nearing Deal for L\u00e9a Seydoux-Starrer \u2018Gentle Monster\u2019 After Cannes Debut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201c\u2018Maniac Cop\u2019 in Nicolas\u2019s hands is not a remake. It is a resurrection,\u201d added Efe Cakarel, founder and CEO of Mubi. \u201cNicolas has one of the most dangerous imaginations in modern cinema, and he is exactly the filmmaker to reawaken something this iconic. We\u2019re proud to be partnering with him on a film that feels bold, singular and impossible to ignore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe have known Nicolas for a long time, and there is nobody better suited to bring this myth back to life,\u201d said Maraval. \u201cThis is not nostalgia. It is a new nightmare, and with Mubi stepping in so decisively, \u2018Maniac Cop\u2019 becomes the kind of ambitious global genre film that buyers and audiences will want to chase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRefn won the best director prize at Cannes in 2011 for \u201cDrive\u201d and returned to the festival in competition with \u201cOnly God Forgives\u201d (2013) and \u201cThe Neon Demon\u201d (2016). 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