Comedian Ike Barinholtz has said that a planned reboot of the cult-comedy franchise Police Academy was shelved after the fatal 2014 shooting of Michael Brown rocked the nation.
The Studio’s Emmy-nominated Barinholtz, along with his writing partner David Stassen, was originally hired to pen a screenplay for a revival of the 1980s crime comedy classic, which featured Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Michael Winslow and Bubba Smith as an oddball class of cadets. The project was expected to star and be produced by Key & Peele stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.