RoboCop Returns?

[Mr. Credible]

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36002

An interesting press release about MGM seems to confirm the studio's interest in a project we'd heard alluded to a while back. It dropped off the radar for a while (we were all hoping this one would just go away), but now, unfortunately, now it's back.

Here's a snippet from the release:

MGM is planning an exciting fall and winter release schedule. In partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM will bring new installments of two of its tentpole franchises -- the new James Bond movie QUANTUM OF SOLACE and Steve Martin in PINK PANTHER 2. MGM will also release United Artists' international thriller VALKYRIE, starring Tom Cruise on October 3. With the appointment of Parent, MGM will enter its new phase of evolution by focusing on its major movie franchises highlighted by JAMES BOND and PINK PANTHER sequels, THE HOBBIT, THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR 2, THE OUTER LIMITS, ROBOCOP, DEATH WISH and FAME, among others.

Most of the projects listed here ('cept for maybe OUTER LIMITS...don't know what they're doing with that) are already known, or we've already covered.

BUT...

ROBOCOP!?!?!?!

In the past, we've heard rumblings that a new ROBOCOP movie was feasible...but its blatant inclusion in a press release suggests that maneuverings may be further along than we knew.

Needless to say, it's an extremely safe bet that a resurrected ROBOCOP franchise would be nowhere near as ballsy, edgy, or socially satirical as its source material (especially Verhoeven's film)- our age of hyper-sensitivity and over-amped political correctness would never allow it.

You can read the entire release HERE.

This one has trouble written all over it.

BY THE WAY, does anyone out there have a bead on a script for the ORIGINAL sequel (before ROBOCOP 2 came about). It was called ROBOCOP: THE CORPORATE WARS & was really different from the ROBOCOP 2 that we ultimately got.

Unlike ROBOCOP 2, this was written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner (the first film's writers) & featured ROBOCOP being disabled in the film's opening, only to awaken to a radically different world many years later.

If you have access to it or know more, DROP ME A LINE, I'd love to hear from you!

Thanks to Chatolokes for pointing us towards the press release.

 

[Immortalfire]

They should remake RoboCop.

No they shouldn't.

 

[Octoberist]

I'm hope that you're happy Spider-Bat! darn it

 

[The Guard]

They should just make a sequel, not a remake. It can be about an older robocop and his son.

 

[The Purdom]

You'd need a pretty edgy director with a hell of a take on the concept of the character.

 

[tyler-durden]

Has anyone thought of the idea of doing Robocop with a different set of characters, Have it continue the franchise but have a new cop go through the procedure.

 

[oldsboy20]

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36002 BY THE WAY, does anyone out there have a bead on a script for the ORIGINAL sequel (before ROBOCOP 2 came about). It was called ROBOCOP: THE CORPORATE WARS & was really different from the ROBOCOP 2 that we ultimately got. Unlike ROBOCOP 2, this was written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner (the first film's writers) & featured ROBOCOP being disabled in the film's opening, only to awaken to a radically different world many years later.

Man I would love to read that script!

 

[Rac]

There's something here: http://robocoparchive.com/archive/feature-robocop2-cw.htm

 

[Keyser Soze]

Remaking "RoboCop" is cinematic blasphemy, in my eyes. Then again, I said the same thing about "Halloween", and look what happened there...

 

[bullets]

There is just no way they could make a good robocop these days. I still would want to see it though.

 

[The Guard]

They could easily make a good Robocop movie today. Again, there's no reason to remake it. Just make a sequel, and make it relevant.

 

[Spider-Vader]

Remake? *Sobs*
Sequel? Good.
Cross-over with Terminator? PWNage

 

[matrix_ghost]

Remakign Robocop is stupid but a sequel sounds good.
They should get Frank Miller to write the script. He was the one who wrote the script for the 2nd movie but it was just butchered by the studio.
I think it was made into a graphic novel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_2
RoboCop 2 was directed by Irvin Kershner from a script by Frank Miller and Walon Green, although Miller's contributions were muted through rewrites. Miller's original script, deemed "unfilmable" by producers, was later turned into a nine-part comic book series called Frank Miller's RoboCop.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Miller's_RoboCop

 

[Drizzle]

I'd eat a kitten to see a "Robocop vs. Terminator" movie.

 

[tyler-durden]

cooked or uncooked

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

No.

Robocop is a dam fine movie, there's no point.
It's also stood the test of time quite well.

 

[Darkly Dexter]

The other day I sat down and watched all three Robo films.

I think they should revamp and reboot Robocop.

Especially now when they're remaking everything, like Halloween.

Except do it good. I could just see a cgi more slimmed down version of ED-209, that'd be cool, maybe have a knock out fight between he and Murphy. Like maybe have a 209 that's all big and bulky like the old one, but it malfunctions, like in the first movie, so they move on to a new slimmer version, one that is still crazy, but in the big finale OCP uses it to try and bring down RoboCop.

The first Robo was good, but they just kept getting so bad, especially three, YUCK! Funny thing is Frank Miller wrote two and three, and 3 is such garbage.

I wouldn't change Murphy's look too much, just slim him down a bit. And his movements would be a bit robotic, but I'd have it that as he gets more used to his new body his movement becomes more human.

Also as he recovers his memories he gets more of a human tone to his voice. I always felt that as he started to regain his personality he should have sounded more human. It should be that he regains as much of himself as he can, a bit of an "FU" to OPC who tried to keep him down and have him just be their property, when there was clearly a human being there with his own mind, he is still Murphy.

no, they shouldn't.

 

[Two-Face]

Yeah let's get Christian Bale as RoboCop!

 

[tyler-durden]

we probably won't, and this is really bad news, I realy hope it's a new cop, and not a remake.

 

[DBZ2cool]

Spoiler

With mankind’s first uncertain steps into the atomic age comes a warning from beyond the stars: cease your fighting and your wars or you will be destroyed. “The decision rests with you,” Klaatu says by way of farewell at the end of “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” a classic of Cold War science-fiction from 1951.
Fifty years later and Klaatu has a new message for humanity, but one with equally dire consequences should we choose to ignore it, Keanu Reeves, who is playing the alien in Scott Derrickson’s upcoming remake, told MTV News.
“The first one was borne out of the cold war and nuclear détente. Klaatu came and was saying cease and desist with your violence. If you can’t do it yourselves we’re going to do it. That was the film of that day,” Reeves explained. “The version I was just working on, instead of being man against man, it’s more about man against nature. My Klaatu says that if the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the earth survives. I’m a friend to the earth.”
While humanity still engages in a staggering number of international conflicts, the environmental message is one that, not only encompasses wars, and fights, and terrorism, but one that goes beyond constrictions to become a millennial message of “what we are doing and who we are as a species,” Reeves insisted. “We’re trying to reach beyond the idea of [just] environmentalism.”
Among the other changes in the film, none may be more radical than Gort, Klaatu’s robot companion (or leader in some versions), that, let’s face it, looked like the tin-man in 1951. FX should change that, right?
“Hey man, don’t put that tin man down! That was iconoclastic!” Reeves protested. “[But] yes, we have another version of the [robot].”
One thing that won’t change? According to Reeves, he still says the immortal words, “Klaatu barada nikto.”

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/03/2...essage-with-him-in-day-the-earth-stood-still/

I actually like the idea. The themes and message suit more for the present time.

Could see this turning into another boxoffice smash.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[terry78]

I'm waiting for someone to call it tree hugging hippie crap. I'm sure they said the same thing about the first one.

 

[DBZ2cool]

I 100% fully support the message of this movie.

People need to keep the environment clean.

 

[xwolverine2]

i love it...

but why destroy humanity??
its not like it'll hurt other planets....which is what the whole point was with the alien coming.

 

[DBZ2cool]

i love it...

but why destroy humanity??
its not like it'll hurt other planets....which is what the whole point was with the alien coming.

Umm I guess that is what he meant. Klatu cares about earth people and his planets.

He wants everyone to live happily but if earth keeps polluting environment in various ways then he will destory the people of earth.