Will a Police Academy remake get Bobcat Goldthwait?
With the news of a Police Academy remake we chatted to Bobcat Goldthwait about his possible return to his role as Zed. Bobcat is a stand-up comedian with an extraordinary on screen persona, a sort of spaced out, wide eyed weirdo screeching, squawking and screaming on stage that was intended as a bit of a parody of the sort of person who should never be a stand up comedian. Nonetheless it saw him offered a role as Zed in the Police Academy films that had started in 1984 and had six subsequent sequels ending in 1994 with Mission To Moscow. Bobcat had appeared firstly in the second film ‘Their First Assignment’ that saw him as a kind of comic bad guy before his character trained to become a cop himself for the third and fourth films before he bowed out in 1987.
A Police Academy remake…
But for some years there’s been talk of the Police Academy franchise being rebooted for a new generation – hardly surprising since the first film had made $81m off a small budget. Inevitably the law of diminishing returns saw each the subsequent films earn less and less with the final film not even making a $1m.
The original cast…
Though Steve Guttenberg is still around the original writer–director Hugh Wilson passed away in 2018 and many of the other cast members are no longer with us either. David Graf who played the gun crazy Tacklberry died way back in 2001, Bubba Smith who played the massive Hightower died back in 2011, George Gaynes who played Commander Lassard died in 2016,
So with rumours still bubbling away of a possible reboot of the comedy franchise we asked Bobcat if he would ever return to the films?
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