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"Original Police Academy producer Paul Maslansky has announced plans to relaunch the comedy series with studio New Line. The franchise kicked off in 1984 with Steve Guttenberg playing a repeat offender who joins the police force. Kim Cattrall also starred in the movie, which introduced characters such as gentle giant Hightower (Bubba Smith), firearms-obsessed Tackleberry (David Graf) and human sound effects machine Larvell Jones (Michael Winslow). Later movies in the seven-film series starred stand-up comic Bobcat Goldthwait, Sharon Stone and Claire Forlani. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s going to be very worthwhile to the people who remember it and to those who saw it on TV,&amp;quot; Maslansky told The Hollywood Reporter of the revived Police Academy, which is to feature a cast of new characters. He continued: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s going to be a new class. We hope to discover new talent and season it with great comedians. It&amp;#039;ll be anything but another movie with a numeral next to it. And we&amp;#039;ll most probably retain the wonderful musical theme.&amp;quot; The Police Academy movies pulled in $240 million at the worldwide box office and later spawned two TV series. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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