According to this article on aintitcool.
But I still don't mind a "re-imagining." Bottom line, the more different it is from the original, the better the chance I'll be able to watch and enjoy with an open mind.
If they just tried to recast the characters and tell the same story, it'll be a disaster akin to doing a remake of Star Wars, where in this version Luke Skywalker is played by Shia LaBeouf, Han Solo is played by Christian Bale, etc. but doing a blow-by-blow re-enactment.
If the idea is to preserve the intelligence, social commentary and balls-out action of the first RoboCop with a different story and characters, fine... you got my ticket.
Actually -- let's be honest -- they have my ticket unless the reviews are truly, stunningly, Crystal Skull-level awful.
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I hope they pull a Battlestar Galactica on it, or a Batman Begins.
The first Robocop was a great film for its time, but I think it could have used even more humanity/examination of humanity. It could have said more, in just the way that Batman Begins does (over the Burton ones) and the way BSG does over the original series.
And this one could do that. Without slowing it down or pontificating, a good script could work that in.
It would certainly make for a longer movie. The setting is the most important character in RoboCop, which is why the humans are sometimes drowned. Even in the scene where Murphy goes to his old house and has a sad trip down memory lane, there's the obnoxious video real estate agent jabbering at him. It's a world in which, even when you're trying to be a human being, there's no escape from this empty, aggressive capitalism. "Make me an offer!" Which I think is also why the villains get so much screen time... they're by-products of the world, and fit naturally into their surroundings. Whereas Murphy is an abberation.
It's reminiscent of The Road, in a way. The Road is a story that says, even in a world that is dead, hostile and lifeless, love can still exist. RoboCop is a story that says that, even in a world where humanity and the soul are meaningless, it can still exist. But only in these tiny, tiny forms, like the plant in Wall-E. Thus, you don't have big emoting scenes in RoboCop.
This new film could definitely bring in the BSG-type discourse, but it'd be a slightly different setting than the original.
I'm interested to see where this project goes. The first RoboCop was about the concerns of Reagan America. It'll be cool to use the character and setting to talk about Bush America.
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