Hollywood Announces It's Officially Given Up*

New Line reviving 'Police Academy':
New Line is looking for recruits for a relaunched "Police Academy" movie. Original producer Paul Maslansky is back for the new iteration, which has no writer or director attached.

"Academy" was a seven-film lowbrow comedy series from Warner Bros. that saw a city throw open the doors of its police force to any recruit, much to the chagrin of its serious officers. The misfit officers band together and, of course, save the city.

..."It's going to be very worthwhile to the people who remember it and to those who saw it on TV," Maslansky said. "It's going to be a new class. We hope to discover new talent and season it with great comedians. It'll be anything but another movie with a numeral next to it. And we'll most probably retain the wonderful musical theme."
In case you've not had the, ahem, pleasure of viewing any of the Police Academy canon, "lowbrow" means: overtly sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, disablist, ageist, xenophobic, fat-hating, and exploitative, with gratuitous naked titty shots.

Have I mentioned in the last six seconds that we're in the middle of a heinous backlash against anything that doesn't conform to the kyriarchy's rigid standards...?

* Again.

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