Ike Barinholtz says he was writing a "dirty, rated-R, modern" version. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele were set to star in a new Police Academy movie, until the 2014 killing of Michael Brown led ...

More than a decade later, Ike Barinholtz is opening up about the Police Academy reboot that was scrapped amid a rise in lethal police brutality. The comedian noted that Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...