Back in May it was reported that Nicholas Winding Refn, the filmmaker behind movies like Valhalla Rising, Bronson, and Drive, was in talks to direct a horror movie titled The Bringing that would be based on the mysterious and disturbing death of a Canadian student named Elisa Lam.

Unfortunately Refn’s involvement in the project didn’t work out, and so a new director had to be found and hired by Sony Pictures. That director is Jeremy Lovering, whose previous credits include the psychological horror In Fear, the documentary Killing Hitler, and episodes of the TV series MI:5 and Sherlock (“The Empty Hearse”).

The 1988 action-horror flick Maniac Cop remains a cult favorite after more than two decades for several reasons, not limited to its badass cast of schlock legends — Tom Atkins, Robert Z’Dar, Richard Roundtree, William Smith, and a young Bruce Campbell in his first leading role outside the Evil Dead movies — and its memorable tagline: “You have the right to remain silent. Forever.” The movie also gave horror fans who were growing tired of the slasher shenanigans of Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger a new unstoppable super killer to root for: Matt Cordell (Z’Dar), a dedicated New York cop who was wrongly convicted, killed in prison, and returned from the dead hungry for vengeance.

The original Maniac Cop was successful enough to spawn two sequels before the would-be franchise petered out in the early 1990s. Now it looks like Officer Cordell is coming back to screens hardcore and he’ll have a major filmmaking talent in his corner.