That Police Academy reboot now has a director
It’s been nearly a year since any forward progress was made on New Line’s remake of Police Academy, suggesting the studio may have quietly scrapped the project out of deference to the memory of Bubba Smith, or to evade Steve Guttenberg’s phone calls. But it turns out New Line has been spending that interim searching for a director who can lend the proper 21st-century edge to capturing all the summer camp shenanigans that go into creating America’s thin, blue, horny line, and Entertainment Weekly reports that it’s finally found him in Scott Zabielski. Zabielski has helmed several seasons of Comedy Central’s Tosh.0, so he’s familiar with both unoriginal, appropriated material and people getting hit in the balls. More importantly, he also serves as a reserve officer in the West Hollywood police force, so he should be able to bring the exacting procedural verisimilitude that audiences demand from the Police Academy movies.