RoboCop May Have a Director

I hope that is is BS

I don't want to see a newcomer directing such a huge project like RoboCop.
Why not get Jon Chu, while we're at it :D

@Gaston

District 9 was great and much better than Avatar, but I guess I'm just a bit afraid of no-name directors handling such huge projects.
I know that everyone has to start somewhere and this guy (Jose Padilha) is no exception, but maybe MGM should let him direct some crime film or drama at first and than see if he would be sutitable enough to direct something like RoboCop.

Neil Blomkamp is a genius and I can't wait for Elysium to come out (my third most anticipated film of 2012)

I would like to see Alfonso Cuaron as director of new RoboCop.

You know.......Micheal Bay WILL be available after having left the Transformers franchise.....


I'm just sayin.........

:P

Kryptonite: Please allow me to attempt to answer your question. Why don't people want a new Robocop? My two cents on why is because a new Robocop movie is going to be rewritten, and will lose the clever subtle political and social satire that is what made the original film a classic. No, a new film is going to be a lot more like the later ones: dark, mean-spirited, and ugly. I get enough of that crap in everyday life. The original film was a great piece of escapist entertainment, which is what I go to the movies wanting to see. I was out of high school when the original came out, and remember seeing it several times in the theater.

I would probably look a LOT more favorably on this film if it were a sequel, and just saying we're going to retcon everything after the first film out of continuity, and go back to the subtle satire and attitude of the first film, as opposed to remaking the original. Now I'd buy THAT for a dollar!

Well... of course he will surpass all those movies... I mean... it's his country!! his people would back him up... no matter how good the film is. At least that what I would do if a promising director from Panama shows up!!

@baroness

Guess what? They got the dough and the statue is going up! No word if there will be a Clarence Boddicker statue to go along with it though.
If Arronofsky is not involved then neither am I. No doubt this will turn into a watered down, PG-13 affair aimed at anyone not old enough to know that there once was a fantastic, satirical film from 1986 called Robocop.

What kind of Brazilian says Y'all?

i'm brazilian, and those movies
Elite Squad, and Elite Squad 2 are amazing
a realy nice job...
if your see the trailer, you will see

Elite Squad!

Robocop was the closest thing us fanboys had to a superhero movie when i was younger (the ultra violence and satire were an extra treat....."I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR") Im not too sure about this n btw this wouldnt really count as a reboot, this is more in the lines of a remake. They better not screw this up cuz this a sci fi CLASSIC. Another funny lines come from the sequal ("ROBOTS WITH EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS" LMAO) OH ALSO RED FROm THE 70S SHOW MADE A KICK ASS VILLIAN

Eu sou Brasileiro, e espero que ele seja o diretor do remake, quem sabe lá ele vá ensinar aos americanos como é realmente o Brasil, não igual a esses filmes (BS) onde todo Carioca (morador do Rio de janeiro) fala ingles e está relacionado em drogas, onde Brasil é composto por apenas Rio De Janeiro e Amazônia e que qualquer um pode vir aqui e explodir tudo, entre outras coisas onde só americano tem a capacidade de pensar!

Ele fez um grande trabalho no filme TROPA DE ELITE , e espero que faça tambem um grande trabalho com Robocop!

E pelos comentarios dos gringos aqui podemos resumir tudo como uma enorme dor de cotovelo hahahahahahah
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I'm Brazilian, and hope he is the director of the remake, who knows he will teach the Americans how it really is Brazil, not like those movies (BS) where every Carioca (resident of Rio de Janeiro) speaks English and is related to drugs, where Brazil is composed of only Rio De Janeiro and the Amazon and that anyone can come here and blow everything up, among other things where only Americans have the ability to think!

He did a great job in the movie Tropa de Elite, and I hope you also do a great job with Robocop!

dont really know anything about this guy so i cant say is he good or bad choice. But i think Neill Blompkamp would make a great director for the reboot/sequel!
District 9 had a great plot, good acting, awesome action and pretty brutal violence in it. Also it made little bit humor of serious matters like Robocop movies.

Alexander Skarsgård would make a great Alex J. Murphy for the new movie.

JIZZ FACE