RoboCop Reboot - Part 3

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I can only assume at this point it'll be pg-13 I don't see them pulling a Dredd, they want this franchise to make money again. I love the uber violence of the original but we all know we won't be seeing that here.

 

[Teelie]

The last I remember they were going for an R rating but that probably has changed since the budget is $100 million.

 

[Tanin]

Maybe we will get lucky and get the R rated version on Blu-Ray if they are forced to cut back to PG-13

 

[Van Petrol]

Hoping we get some footage and a leak at the panel on Friday.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

just go all Dredd on this and aim for an R rating

 

[Tanin]

just go all Dredd on this and aim for an R rating

Did you see Dredd's box office numbers? That could be suicide.

 

[culver3vlr22]

Robocop is 15x more popular of a character in a America is crazy to think and dredd movie with no name actors in it cod make blockbuster numbers.

This film has a great cast that alone with get some ppl to go come on ppl. Not everyone will see the trailer and go "omg my favorite movie ever is being remade omg no kill yourself"... "Omg robocop looks horrible and not like robocop I'm never seeing this horrible movie"... "I hate remakes nope."

It's going to make money it has to !

 

[Tanin]

After Star Trek I wouldn't call Karl Urban a no name. Complete A lister no... but not no name.

It has a crazy new design that has the fandom here and several other places I chat at split in half, new actor playing the part so it isn't a sequel, Probably PG-13, no marketing, no nothing. All going against it with hardcore fans and the GA

At this pace it will fail harder then Pacific Rim

 

[culver3vlr22]

It comes out in feb. what marketing is there suppose to be ??

 

[Teelie]

Did you see Dredd's box office numbers? That could be suicide.

Not if it were given marketing, which Dredd was not.

 

[Tanin]

It comes out in feb. what marketing is there suppose to be ??

A poster maybe

 

[culver3vlr22]

We will have a poster soon. Comic con will give us the teaser. It most usually does if I recall they had a poster up at last years comic con so I'd expect a teaser poster soon.

It's still early IMO.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

Did you see Dredd's box office numbers? That could be suicide.

i blame the idiot marketing department for that

Dredd is f***ing awesome and such an underrated flick

it would have done better with better marketing which i hope MGM does with Robocop

 

[MadVillainy]

i dont see what was bad about Dredd's marketing, but really people wanting this to be like Dredd are having pretty silly thinking.

Dont make it like Dredd. Make it it's own, hopefully successful thing. Spending 100 mill and making it R would be a risky, and imo a pretty stupid movie.

 

[Teelie]

Dredd went virtually unmarketed so no one outside of the core fanbase even knew what to make of it except at best to associate it with the previous Dredd film with Stallone. At worst, they had no idea what it was or even existed.

Robocop will have a similar although more acceptable history of people linking it to the original Robocop franchise. There are similarties to be had (The original Robocop was literally Judge Dredd before it's rewrite) so that's unavoidable but it doesn't mean the movies are going to suffer A same fate.

Making it rated R will be fine if they give it to an audience who knows what to expect and that it exists in the first place as a reboot of the series.

 

[Paradox1]

Is it fair to call it reboot when the original is made in the 80's? I think it's more fair to call this film a remake of the original film. I think a pg-13 rating will be more than fine for this film. At the time of the original release it seemed like nearly every action flick was getting an R rating. A lot has changed since that time in nearly every aspect that makes the R rated action flick a bigger risk to the bottom line.

 

[Wookie-Balls]

Judging by the leaked script this will be a PG-13 all the way...

 

[Octoberist]

It's somewhat weird to think as time goes on, the less balls certain franchises that should have balls have.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I have to say, if this does not at least have the over the top violence or biting dark humor of the original I think I and many others will be unhappy. Of course if this comes out and getts younger audience members to discover the original then at least it will have done that. Btw, I have no prob with the new suit and think it has a hell of a cast. A full trailer will give us a better idea about tone I guess.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Dredd flopped because people don't care about Judge Dredd. It's really that simple. Most of the people in the U.S. only know the character from the awful Stallone movie, and they weren't going to return for another installment of something like that.

True, the marketing wasn't that great, but even if we'd been bombarded with TV spots and tie-ins, I don't think it would have had that much effect on the box office.

Robocop at least has a lot more name recognition than Dredd. However, the bad sequels and the fact that it's been a long time since the beloved original might keep it from appealing to the masses. Additionally, fans of the original might swear off the new one (some already have) simply because they don't want to see it remade.

 

[MadVillainy]

They really need to start advertising this I think. At least some official images, keep it in people's minds until the release date. This movie has an uphill battle since it seems that it doesn't have that much positive hype for it

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

At this point a teaser trailer and poster sounds about right.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I think a that mimics the original theatrical poster to a T and a trailer that gives us a handle on tone would go a long way.

 

[MadVillainy]

they should put oout that comic con footage that comes out tomorrow if it's an official trailer

 

[dark_b]

they are not that smart.