RoboCop’ Returns

[Deck Rickard]

Peter Weller is kind of old to be doing this film anyway. Isn't he in his 70s now? Or he's close to 70.

I recall the remake only kept a short motif from the original score, but it sounded awful overall. It was just another example of how the remake didn't get it. Made it PG-13. Awful looking "suit" etc. It was an abomination.

Yes, but remember... NO ONE other than the actor who originated a role can EVER play that character. DID SOLO TEACH US NOTHING?!!!

 

[Guts]

I'm in just for his take on Detroit.

Glad to see some positivity about this. Robocop is a character and franchise that still has a lot of potential.

None of the original movies were filmed in Detroit and the remake only had establishing shots of the downtown area. But for Blomkamp's portrayal of the city and it's abandoned sections, I hope they have tons of overgrown plants everywhere. The real life Detroit has a really good downtown area, but there are plenty of places in the residential neighborhoods that have abandoned homes and vacant lots where you see tons of overgrown plants in the summer. There is an abandoned townhouse down the street from me that has a tree growing out of the roof. I wouldn't mind if the portrayal of Detroit has the downtown area be ultra futuristic with the surrounding residential neighborhoods not being as well off. It would basically be that the Delta City concept only made it to one small part of the city.

 

[TheVileOne]

Yes, but remember... NO ONE other than the actor who originated a role can EVER play that character. DID SOLO TEACH US NOTHING?!!!

I mean everyone else who played the character sucked hard. So your point is lost on me.

 

[OfficerK]

I have liked some of Blomkamps movies but...robocop...why? I mean we just got a new one not that long ago. And it wasn't even that good. Out of all the things he could do, why that? I mean at best this could end up being slightly better than the last one, but I doubt it'll be some modern masterpiece.

 

[rogue trooper]

Why another RoboCop movie ? Just get him to direct a Cyborg movie, which is DC's version of RoboCop. Ray Fisher was a great choice to play him too, plus he brings much better backstory to the character (his background of a football player.)


Lol at people getting excited about another Robocop movie when they disliked the idea of a Cyborg movie, double standards ?

I like Cyborg, though personally I'd fancy a Deathlok movie better, and I'm also looking forward to the planned ROM movie being written by Zak Penn. There's room for more Robo and his metallic ilk.

 

[Aximili86]

None of the original movies were filmed in Detroit and the remake only had establishing shots of the downtown area. But for Blomkamp's portrayal of the city and it's abandoned sections, I hope they have tons of overgrown plants everywhere. The real life Detroit has a really good downtown area, but there are plenty of places in the residential neighborhoods that have abandoned homes and vacant lots where you see tons of overgrown plants in the summer. There is an abandoned townhouse down the street from me that has a tree growing out of the roof. I wouldn't mind if the portrayal of Detroit has the downtown area be ultra futuristic with the surrounding residential neighborhoods not being as well off. It would basically be that the Delta City concept only made it to one small part of the city.

Ehh, I don't know that it should be "real Detroit" either. Should definitely be run-down and a lot of it impoverished like the real deal, but you want to take a little stylistic liberty too.

Only thing I don't like about the Corporate Wars idea and the time jump is they go all Dredd/Mega City One with the locales, and that seems pushing it a bit too far. What's cool about the original (and the sequels too I guess) is it's obviously "heightened" but still basically present, a sort of "near future" like the original X-Men flicks.

It's all about balance. If you've got Blomkamp you probably want to take advantage of that and make it all a little trippier than the reboot's "real city" vibes, but just shooting Detroit-as-Detroit is probably a mistake too. It'd be kinda cool if Delta City eventually went ahead anyway, despite Murphy exposing all the OCP corruption.

 

[StarLord]

 

[Hypestyle]

so what can they do with robocop now? I hope they bypass the origin.

I also hope they don't return him to just the slow walking guy again.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Awesome

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

What are your prime directives ?
- Serve the nerds trust
- Protect the fanboys
- Uphold the mytho
- Directive 4[classified]

 

[Guts]

Ehh, I don't know that it should be "real Detroit" either. Should definitely be run-down and a lot of it impoverished like the real deal, but you want to take a little stylistic liberty too.

Only thing I don't like about the Corporate Wars idea and the time jump is they go all Dredd/Mega City One with the locales, and that seems pushing it a bit too far. What's cool about the original (and the sequels too I guess) is it's obviously "heightened" but still basically present, a sort of "near future" like the original X-Men flicks.

It's all about balance. If you've got Blomkamp you probably want to take advantage of that and make it all a little trippier than the reboot's "real city" vibes, but just shooting Detroit-as-Detroit is probably a mistake too. It'd be kinda cool if Delta City eventually went ahead anyway, despite Murphy exposing all the OCP corruption.

I guess the thought I had in my head wasn't to do it as literal modern day Detroit but a more exaggerated version. The idea I had about overgrown plants covering the abandoned sections would be a bit more similar to what Ryan Gosling did in his movie Lost River which had a fantasy version of the city.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Awesome.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

 

[Kane52630]

It wouldn't be Neill Blomkamp if it wasn't Rated R.

 

[Marvel united]

Harrison Ford was 74 years old when he filmed TFA. Wellers age is not an issue. He doesn't even have to be in the suit

 

[Teelie]

Only thing is you couldn't pay Weller enough money to come back from his past statements.

 

[Drizzle]

Harrison Ford was 74 years old when he filmed TFA. Wellers age is not an issue. He doesn't even have to be in the suit

That's as long as Weller wants to do it. Ford more than likely wasn't 100% down to return as Han Solo either but changed his mind after Disney unloaded a dump truck full of cash on his driveway and promised that it would be his last time playing the character.

And while Weller is nowhere near Ford's status in terms of celebrity status or even the types of films he's been in (Star Trek: Into Darkness has been his only blockbuster since Robocop), MGM still doesn't have Disney money to coax Weller if he doesn't want to come back. This movie won't have an insanely huge budget. All we can do is hope that Weller comes back in some form, be it voicing the character with a lookalike double in the suit or a Marvel-style CGI facelift.

 

[Aximili86]

I guess the thought I had in my head wasn't to do it as literal modern day Detroit but a more exaggerated version. The idea I had about overgrown plants covering the abandoned sections would be a bit more similar to what Ryan Gosling did in his movie Lost River which had a fantasy version of the city.

Yeah. I mean, maybe if they get out into some less urban areas they could take it to that extent, The originals obviously have all the burned-out factories and slum areas and all. Sure they'll keep a more-maintained & serviceable downtown business area though, you don't really want to go all-out The Last Of Us level of urban decay and overgrowth.

Hypestyle, you don't want the slow walk? That's half the iconic Robocop thing! We don't need some agile running-ducking-and-weaving thing here, keep the guy a big mechanized nigh-indestructible tank. Hope we don't get a motorbike either, maybe they could pay a little more attention to the car, like explaining retrofitting and reinforcing a regular one a little so he can actually drive the thing without weighing it down halfway to the asphalt.

 

[Alien Anal]

Has it been considered the film may take place not long after the events of Robocop 1 or has it been said that it will be set however many years after?


Should the film have an 80s aesthetic?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I believe from the story pitch, which has been around a while, Robocop has been out of commission for a number of years and stored in a warehouse. Then he is woken up. So I imagine it would at least be a decade since the first movie.

 

[Aximili86]

It sounds like it's this new guy re-working Corporate Wars, which is the script Neumeier & Miner wrote years ago. The "original Robocop 2" before Frank Miller jumped aboard.

Basically it involves Robo out of commission/"dying", waking up repaired 25 years (fuzzy on the time gap, could be more) in the future and Detroit's all futuristic Mega City One type of deal. Same black humor and snark from the first one, only amplified x1000 with all the media stuff. Corporations with armies, it's all quite a lot more Total Recall type of deal tech-wise.

If they're indeed going this way, I hope they tone it down conceptually a little. Keep the same ideas though, and really get into Murphy's head again psychologically. I could do without such a time jump though, or at least if they do it then don't quite take it to Judge Dreed extent with all the futurism. Some really cool ideas in that script though, it's up online somewhere.

 

[2kt09]

It's Blomkamp, so this is perfect:

to wake up to after a long slumber. OCP must've gone defunct as well.

 

[Guts]

I can't wait to see the in-universe ads for this movie.

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[Binker]

What do you think the story will be about, based on the report that it's using the original Corporate Wars script?

 

[Assassin32]

Harrison Ford was 74 years old when he filmed TFA. Wellers age is not an issue. He doesn't even have to be in the suit

But Han Solo was also 74 years old in TFA. Peter Weller no longer has the same face he had in the late '80s, and this is (according to reports) a direct sequel to the Verhoeven original.