Universal Pictures announced Wednesday that it plans to reboot the time travel action movie Timecop in a partnership with production company Global Produce.
Based on Mark Verheiden’s Dark Horse Comics title Time Cop, the original film imagined a world where time travel would be possible and where police regulate its usage. Peter Hyams’ 1994 film starred Jean-Claude Van Damme as an officer who tries to go back in time to save his wife from being killed — and stymie the endemic corruption that has emerged as a result of time-travel technology.
The original film was one of 1994′s top R-rated hits, and even inspired a short-lived hour-long ABC series that aired in 1997. This update will reportedly “re-imagine” the idea of Timecop. Even though it’s somewhat impossible to think of Timecop without Jean-Claude Van Damme’s brutish accented whisper, feeding us lines like “I think you plan too far ahead,” die-hard fans may be disappointed to hear that he will not be involved in the reboot. There is no director or writing team attached to the project yet.
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