Robocop

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Paul Verhoeven's Robocp (1987) was one of my favorite movies. A few years ago the talk of a reboot started in Hollywood and Darren Aronofsky was supposed to direct it. Indeed a strange decision although I love Daren's movies. Then the financial problems for MGM started and the movie was put on hold. Also Darren moved away from the project.
Now the talks are renewed and it's very probable that the movie will hit theaters in 2013. Again the decision who will direct it is a strange one but I think it could work well. It's the Brazilian Jose Padilha. I think he has a great skill and a unique vision. Here is a trailer of his most famous film Elite Squad.



About the male lead, first MGM were considering Johny Depp, Keanu Reevs and Tom Cruise which I think are bad choices indeed. Now they're considering Chris Pyne, not the best actor but still could work, although he is pretty young compared to Peter Weller. I guess MGM will take the franchise to a completely different direction. I'm anxious to see what will happen.

Here is the Screenrant article about the latest updates for the movie.

http://screenrant.com/chris-pine-rob...schrad-123244/

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Paul Verhoeven's Robocp (1987) was one of my favorite movies. A few years ago the talk of a reboot started in Hollywood and Darren Aronofsky was supposed to direct it. Indeed a strange decision although I love Daren's movies. Then the financial problems for MGM started and the movie was put on hold. Also Darren moved away from the project.
Now the talks are renewed and it's very probable that the movie will hit theaters in 2013. Again the decision who will direct it is a strange one but I think it could work well. It's the Brazilian Jose Padilha. I think he has a great skill and a unique vision. Here is a trailer of his most famous film Elite Squad.

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELlkWtNWyKY

About the male lead, first MGM were considering Johny Depp, Keanu Reevs and Tom Cruise which I think are bad choices indeed. Now they're considering Chris Pyne, not the best actor but still could work, although he is pretty young compared to Peter Weller. I guess MGM will take the franchise to a completely different direction. I'm anxious to see what will happen.

Here is the Screenrant article about the latest updates for the movie.

http://screenrant.com/chris-pine-rob...schrad-123244/

A good actor is not needed to play Robocop, you just have to look good in that helmet.

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A good actor is not needed to play Robocop, you just have to look good in that helmet.

Well in the first movie Peter Weller was without the helmet most of the time with an admirable facial expression.

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Great news about the movie! The director wants Michael Fassbender to play Robocop. That's one of my favorite new young actors. I think he is a perfect match for the role. Also they want to start filming in March. I hope they finish the script in time.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=82494

[MrX]

A good actor is not needed to play Robocop, you just have to look good in that helmet.

I respectfully disagree. You need a good actor in that suit, otherwise he'll just be lumbering around on screen.

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I hope they do a good job of differentiating the Robocop suit from Iron Man's suits. I think people will be comparing the two.

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I hope they do a good job of differentiating the Robocop suit from Iron Man's suits. I think people will be comparing the two.

I don't think they will change the original Robocop suit, at least not with much. And personally I don't see any similarities between Robo's suit and Iron Man's.

[TIMtationX]

I don't think they will change the original Robocop suit, at least not with much. And personally I don't see any similarities between Robo's suit and Iron Man's.

If you compare the original Robocop suit, then yes. But I'm sure the new movie will have an updated suit with better tech.

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If you compare the original Robocop suit, then yes. But I'm sure the new movie will have an updated suit with better tech.

Which is why I kind of hope they go the opposite way than from the original movie. Where most of Murphy's modification was done off-camera, maybe show the transformation this time around. (I feel that Verhoeven's off-camera reveal worked in 1987, but maybe might not be as effective now) While keeping the tech spartan and not load Robo with gadgetry.

So that there's a distinction that this isn't a suit, so much as Murphy himself.

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If you compare the original Robocop suit, then yes. But I'm sure the new movie will have an updated suit with better tech.

Surely they will equip the suit with better tech, but I doubt that they will change the suit significantly especially because there are too many movies, comic books, TV series and toys with this specific look. But who knows.

Also we have to remember that a few years ago there was a teaser poster released for a possible 2010 release of Robocop in which he didn't look much different from the original. At least the helmet.

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Some more news.

Jose Padilha shared some more thoughts about the movie:

"I love the sharpness and political tone of [Verhoeven's] ‘RoboCop’, and I think that such a film is now urgently needed. But I will not repeat what Verhoeven has done so clearly and strongly. Instead I try to make a film that will address topics that Verhoeven [left] untreated. If you are a man [that] changes into a robot, how do you do that? What is the difference between [how] humans and robots [are] developed? What is free will? What does it mean to lose your free will? Those are the [interesting] issues that I think."

This really sounds more and more promising. It's great that Aronofsky is still attached as producer.

http://screenrant.com/robocop-remake...-sandy-133145/

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The director wants Michael Fassbender to play Robocop.

So, Fassbender is playing a droid in Ridley Scott's Prometheus!!! Ringing any bells.

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Another interview with Jose Padilha. Here are the Robocop parts:


What are you going to do with a studio budget on ‘Robocop?’
Spend it. [Laughs] Listen, I always try to make the best film I can. If I can have one year to shoot a film, I want one year to shoot a film. If it’s not possible, I’ll try to make as best as I can in the timeframe that I have. I don’t know exactly, because I’ve never done a movie with a huge budget, but I do know that the producers in this film, the studio are filmmakers. It’s the people from Spyglass, Jon Glickman, Roger [Birnbaum] and Adam [Rosenberg]. They make films. They are not only studio execs. They are producers too. So they know how to make a film and it’s very good for me because it’s pragmatic. Once you give me the budget, whatever the budget is, the most important thing to me is that the money spent goes towards the screen. That’s what counts. If I have a beautiful five star trailer, that doesn’t change anything on the screen. It’s better to have more film, more footage, more takes. It’s that that concerns me and the guys that are making Robocop are very wise this way so it’s cool.


Do you want to redesign Robocop and ED-209?
That I can’t tell otherwise I’m going to give the movie away. We are already doing that, working on the designs so I do already know stuff. Listen, the design has to match the script. You don’t design something out of the blue. You design something that makes sense inside the dramatic universe that you are exploring. So that’s what we’re doing.

Is there any truth to the Chris Pine or Michael Fassbender casting rumors? That’s a new one. I heard the Fassbender casting rumors. I haven’t discussed really casting. What happened was Elite Squad 2 opened in Holland so a journalist from Holland I spoke with wanted to know who’s going to be Robocop because Verhoeven is Dutch. So I said there are many great American actors, for instance Fassbender, Chris Pine and I named a few. Then the web does the rest.


Does anything remain from Darren Aronofsky’s work?
I haven’t read Aronofsky’s script. Aronofsky is a great director. I love his films. I am very proud because I saw Pi in the opening Sundance screening and I loved it. So Aronofsky’s great. I have my own take on Robocop. I know what his take was and it’s totally different. It’s a different thing, different kind of film, even different period in time so I haven’t read his previous work.


It’s interesting you say different period of time. I got the impression from Aronofsky’s take that he was leaning towards modern day and the devices that make us cyborgs now.
Well, some things are constant. A lot of what was great about Robocop, the original one, had to do with the ‘80s. That kind of style of shooting, for one thing, when Robocop was released there was no movie like Robocop. If we do Robocop again, there is at least one.


The original 'Robocop' was very much about the corporations of the ‘80s. Would your take be able to address today’s problems like the banks and mortgage lenders?
[Laughs] Listen, there are the constants and the variables in this world, right? Some things change and some things never change. Corporations controlling people are a constant. It’s the banks now, it’s going to be something else 30 years from now. It was something else before. This is the way economics works. So we’re not making a film about mortgage, that I can tell you.


Will you stick around for ‘Robocop 2 and 3’ to make sure they don’t suck?
That’s funny. Let’s do one first, then we’ll talk about two.


My favorite part is that the corporation creates him and owns him, but he remembers who he was and they can’t own that.
That’s the greatness of the concept. That’s the concept of Robocop in a nutshell. That’s the heart and soul of the film. It’s that conflict between stuff trying to own you and you trying to persevere. That’s the heart of the story and it has to be. Any Robocop that’s worth that name has to talk about that.


Will you still call him Alex Murphy?
Alex Murphy is Alex Murphy, man. You can’t call Batman some other name. Bruce Wayne is Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent is Clark Kent, Alex Murphy is Alex Murphy.


Source: http://www.craveonline.com/film/inte...-elite-squad-2

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Just saying one thing. If they don't re-use the music from the original, then this movie will suck. Period.
Robocop just isn't Robocop without it's classic theme music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7rjLQuW2nQ

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Looks like Fassbender has nothing against playing RoboCop. Hope he likes the script. For me he is a complete match for the role.

Question: Because of all of the success that you’ve had recently, there are lots of rumors that you are attached to all sorts of great projects. Is RoboCop something that you’d like to do?
MICHAEL FASSBENDER: You know, I’m always open. I’ll take a look at the script and sit down with the director and have a conversation. It’s not definitely like, “Oh, I’ve got to play RoboCop before I retire.” I don’t have that about anything. I don’t go, “I have to play the Dane one day, or Hamlet.” I don’t really think like that. I just wait and see what comes up, and I’m always open to it. If I react to the script, then I’m up for anything.
Would you dread wearing a metal suit?
FASSBENDER: No. It could be kind of fun. It could be kind of good to have a helmet that I could hide behind, for most of the film, too. That sounds kind of appealing.

Source: http://collider.com/michael-fassbend...erview/126164/

[Flyingheart]

These movies were sometimes scary for me when i was a kid but they also carry this nostalgia for me, and my uncle in America worked on Robocop 2 i believe he's a photographer (Alex Pietersen) he's kind of old school i try to get him on Twitter and Youtube and stuff but he just don't wanna learn that stuff lol i can remember the day he was here for a week in Europe and told us he'd seen Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was in the elevator when he went up Arnie went down he said we were like "no way!!" XD hhmm.. great times great movies too
Sorry guys lol i'm in a nostalgic mood now :P

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Jose Padilha describes one of the central philosophical dilemmas that will be explored in his RoboCop reboot:
“Wars in the future are going to be fought with drones. We won’t send a plane with a pilot in, it will be drone. It’s getting that way now and ten years from now that’s how wars are going to be fought. But what if a drone goes wrong – who is to blame then? Do you blame the drone? And that problem asks if you can you consider a robot guilty of a crime. Or is it the corporation that made the robot that is guilty? How do you fight back against drones when you don’t have drones?”

I'm anxious to see the cast.

http://screenrant.com/robocop-remake...-sandy-141788/

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Just little off topic. Now I see that there is a Starship Troopers remake in the works.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=84799

Obviously Paul Verhoeven is very popular again. First Total Recall (they almost finished filming) then RoboCop and now Starship Troopers. I just hope they won't make a remake of Basic Instinct too. : rol
Honestly I don't see the point of a Starship Troopers remake. Paul Verhoeven's movie still looks great with awesome CGI. Not to mention that there were two sequels which were pathetic. I guess Hollywood really has problems with finding something original.

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I guess Hollywood really has problems with finding something original.

NO SHIT!!! :head

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Some interesting news.
The writer of Gran Torino Nick Schenk will do the script. He used to work with the director on his previous project Tri-Border so this is good news.
Now the better part - a strange casting rumor was spread by Variety‘s Jeff Sneider. He tweeted the following:

Sure, Russell Crowe, MIGHT star in Aronofsky’s NOAH… but do you know what else he MIGHT star in? Three words: Ro. Bo. Cop.

Russell Crowe is the last man that I can think of as a lead for the movie. And that's why I like the idea. First I though the director wanted a younger lead but this might change.

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Joel Kinnaman offered RoboCop lead?

I'm not sure about this. Never seen this guy acting. Looks like he has some serious movies lately. Thoughts?

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=87439

[frolunda71]

Joel Kinnaman offered RoboCop lead?

I'm not sure about this. Never seen this guy acting. Looks like he has some serious movies lately. Thoughts?

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=87439

He's a Swedish actor who has just recently got his foot in Hollywood. I saw him a while ago in The Darkest Hour. He didn't exactly put on an Oscar winning performance. My thought is this, that Hollywood has some serious problems if they can't find anybody else for the lead part. But then again, no serious Hollywood actor is stupid enough to take the role and fuck up a classic movie with a remake that is most likely gonna flop and is gonna be released straight to DVD/Blu-ray outside the US...

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It's official now. Joel Kinnaman is RoboCop.
I guess I have to trust Jose on this.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=87439

[r-type]

It's official now. Joel Kinnaman is RoboCop.
I guess I have to trust Jose on this.

Yeah, but would you buy that for a dollar?

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August 9th 2013