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'Police Academy' series to be relaunched
Published Friday, Mar 5 2010, 09:54 GMT | By Simon Reynolds
Rex Features
The franchise kicked off in 1984 with Steve Guttenberg playing a repeat offender who joins the police force. Kim Cattrall also starred in the movie, which introduced characters such as gentle giant Hightower (Bubba Smith), firearms-obsessed Tackleberry (David Graf) and human sound effects machine Larvell Jones (Michael Winslow).
Later movies in the seven-film series starred stand-up comic Bobcat Goldthwait, Sharon Stone and Claire Forlani.
"It's going to be very worthwhile to the people who remember it and to those who saw it on TV," Maslansky told The Hollywood Reporter of the revived Police Academy, which is to feature a cast of new characters.
He continued: "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."
The Police Academy movies pulled in $240 million at the worldwide box office and later spawned two TV series.
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