Speaking with
Collider,
The Killing's Joel Kinnaman discusses the anticipated reboot of the
RoboCop franchise. He confirms that filming begins in September, while also saying that he saw the original film many times before taking the title role in José Padilha's reboot. He also discusses the level of interest in the project, as well as working with Gary Oldman (who plays 'Norton' in the movie).
On The Level Of Interest In RoboCop:
It’s like when you say one thing, it’s everywhere, and that’s pretty awesome and a little bit intimidating. It makes you realize you have to think before speaking. That’s a quality I’m continuously evolving. For some reason, it seems like I’m bumping my head into the wall a little bit too many times, but now I think I’m doing alright. It’s fantastic. I used to be like “Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?” But then, we do that all the time in the theater. If we weren’t doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was. I’m not saying that Robocop is Shakespeare, but it’s a way to … we’re retelling. That’s what we do as human beings. We retell our favorite stories. That’s what we’ve done since we were sitting around campfires. It’s a part of the human spirit. It doesn’t have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That’s how you can break new ground by rethinking something that’s already been done. José has a completely different take on this than Verhoeven had, and with all respect, everybody that’s involved in this movie loved the original and we have a lot of respect for it. We’re going to have a lot of throwbacks and there’s going to be a lot of fun stuff for the fans of the first movie. It’s a new story within the old one.
On Working With Gary Oldman:
That feels about as surreal as me being RoboCop. I couldn’t be happier. He’s pretty much the grand master of the game. ... So, I’m very, very excited and we have great scenes that have a lot of the substance that I was talking about. It’s very much a relationship between Gary Oldman’s character and Alex Murphy.
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RoboCop is set to hit theaters August 3rd, 2013.