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So, a sequel to Robocop may be coming!!
Zeigeist: RoboCop is very much what you would call a cult classic.
EN: Thank you. I think so.
Z: What was this history behind RoboCop? What conceptualised it in the first place?
EN: I think it was my sense of humour. It was sort of how I look at things and way, way back in the 1980s when I was writing this, you were supposed to write action movies that were exciting, but you werent really supposed to write action movies that were funny or satirical and I always thought you could do that. In the 80s that was kind of a satire about corporate America and a little bit about what was going in law enforcement and policing and stuff like that. Those were topics that I thought I could write about in a fun way and luckily I hooked up with a bunch of talented people and the movie turned out really well.
I was very lucky to have a producer named John Davidson who produced the movie Airplane, which you might have heard of also, so he was a guy who encouraged you to do things that were funny. Then we got Paul Verhoeven who is just a world class filmmaker and he really bought into the whole idea lock, stock and barrel. So it worked out really well that way.
Z: At the time of filming RoboCop did you expect to have the cult following it has now?
EN: No. I dont think you really. I had seen early screenings and people laughed at it so I thought: Oh it might be successful and it was more successful than anybody really knew it would be. I didnt expect to be talking about it thirty years later. It was kind of the start of my career and later we did Starship Troopers which was an enormous movie that took forever. I think all of that came out of that and its nice that people are still interested in RoboCop and they have me working on a new one at MGM right now so maybe well get another one out of it.
Z: Could you give readers some sort of teaser as to what its going to be about?
EN: Well, heres what Ill say. Were not supposed to say too much. Theres been a bunch of other RoboCop movies and there was recently a remake and I would say this would be kind of going back to the old RoboCop we all love and starting there and going forward. So its a continuation really of the first movie. In my mind. So its a little bit more of the old school thing.
Rest of the article is at:
http://www.zgemag.com/biff-2018-interview-ed-neumeier/
If this actually happens, it should be very interesting! Get Peter Weller and Paul Verhoeven
back, if the co-writer of the original is working on this!
Zeigeist: RoboCop is very much what you would call a cult classic.
EN: Thank you. I think so.
Z: What was this history behind RoboCop? What conceptualised it in the first place?
EN: I think it was my sense of humour. It was sort of how I look at things and way, way back in the 1980s when I was writing this, you were supposed to write action movies that were exciting, but you werent really supposed to write action movies that were funny or satirical and I always thought you could do that. In the 80s that was kind of a satire about corporate America and a little bit about what was going in law enforcement and policing and stuff like that. Those were topics that I thought I could write about in a fun way and luckily I hooked up with a bunch of talented people and the movie turned out really well.
I was very lucky to have a producer named John Davidson who produced the movie Airplane, which you might have heard of also, so he was a guy who encouraged you to do things that were funny. Then we got Paul Verhoeven who is just a world class filmmaker and he really bought into the whole idea lock, stock and barrel. So it worked out really well that way.
Z: At the time of filming RoboCop did you expect to have the cult following it has now?
EN: No. I dont think you really. I had seen early screenings and people laughed at it so I thought: Oh it might be successful and it was more successful than anybody really knew it would be. I didnt expect to be talking about it thirty years later. It was kind of the start of my career and later we did Starship Troopers which was an enormous movie that took forever. I think all of that came out of that and its nice that people are still interested in RoboCop and they have me working on a new one at MGM right now so maybe well get another one out of it.
Z: Could you give readers some sort of teaser as to what its going to be about?
EN: Well, heres what Ill say. Were not supposed to say too much. Theres been a bunch of other RoboCop movies and there was recently a remake and I would say this would be kind of going back to the old RoboCop we all love and starting there and going forward. So its a continuation really of the first movie. In my mind. So its a little bit more of the old school thing.
Rest of the article is at:
http://www.zgemag.com/biff-2018-interview-ed-neumeier/
If this actually happens, it should be very interesting! Get Peter Weller and Paul Verhoeven
back, if the co-writer of the original is working on this!
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