RoboCop May Have a Director

RoboCop May Have a Director

Deadline's Mike Flemming has scored an exclusive stating that MGM's reboot of the RoboCop franchise may have found a director in the form of Jose Padilha, who had previously helmed the Portugese crime drama Elite Squad and its sequel.

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By EdGross - Mar 01, 2011 01:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Robocop
Source: Deadline

Says Deadline, "Those films were Portuguese language and didn't play huge in the U.S., but Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within grossed over $60 million in Brazil alone last year, surpassing Avatar, Shrek Forever and Alice in Wonderland in Padilha's home country. The original won a Golden Bear at the 2007 Berlinale. Once Padilha is aboard, they will set a writer who'll work under the director's supervision."

According to the story, the revamped MGM looks at the RoboCop franchise as an important ingredient in the studio's rebuilding.

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Havok89
Havok89 - 3/1/2011, 2:03 PM
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
SeaSerpentine
SeaSerpentine - 3/1/2011, 2:10 PM
[frick] the reboot.
Havok89
Havok89 - 3/1/2011, 2:24 PM
@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)
BuckTonka88
BuckTonka88 - 3/1/2011, 2:40 PM
Before the original Robocop in '87 it seems its Director didn't have a lot of well known movies as well, at least none i'm familiar with. let the new guy take a shot, it can't be any worse than the first three and subsequent mini-series
Havok89
Havok89 - 3/1/2011, 2:55 PM
I would like to see Alfonso Cuaron as director of new RoboCop.
OptimusPrimeTime
OptimusPrimeTime - 3/1/2011, 3:24 PM
You know.......Micheal Bay WILL be available after having left the Transformers franchise.....


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

:P
GIJoeBaroness
GIJoeBaroness - 3/1/2011, 3:30 PM
I live just outside Detroit (but in Canada), and a local radio station started a fund to have a Robocop statue donated to the city. They are almost there!!
comicb00kguy
comicb00kguy - 3/1/2011, 3:33 PM
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!
Gunslinger
Gunslinger - 3/1/2011, 3:35 PM
Just to clarify, José Padilha isn't portuguese (not that we would mind having him in our ranks since he's a talented director). He's brazillian. Speaks portuguese since it's Brazil's official language but that's it.

With that said, Esquadrão de Elite (elite squad) is gritty, brutal and well directed. It shows a corrupted system and how the law is different when dealing with criminals in the favelas (rio's shanty towns). Come to think of it, that kind of backdrop would be perfect for the Judge Dredd reboot as it seems that that's what they're aiming for.

It got international attention and was well deserved. I would rather have a relative unknown who can do gritty and complex violent movies doing a big budget movie than someone with a name in the industry like Brian Singer.
Themanwhosoldtheworld
Themanwhosoldtheworld - 3/1/2011, 4:02 PM
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!!
Spidey1996
Spidey1996 - 3/1/2011, 4:05 PM
Sweet! A Robocop reboot!
Superzero
Superzero - 3/1/2011, 4:21 PM
@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.
safecrash
safecrash - 3/1/2011, 4:22 PM
Padilha is a great director, and I'm not only saying it cause I'm Brazilian. He'd make a terrific Robocop movie.

Y'all should check on his movies (Elite Squad 1 and 2), they're awesome.
Coon
Coon - 3/1/2011, 4:52 PM
What kind of Brazilian says Y'all?
Starlight
Starlight - 3/1/2011, 5:13 PM
The frist 2 movies are SO TIMELESS... I won't like it if they "Matrixize" or "Terminatorize" the new one...
marckos
marckos - 3/1/2011, 6:08 PM
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!
AlSimmons
AlSimmons - 3/1/2011, 8:21 PM
I find it kind of funny that Red from that 70s show is a major villain in robo-cop.
WhiteDragon66
WhiteDragon66 - 3/1/2011, 8:50 PM
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
BlindLemonShemp
BlindLemonShemp - 3/2/2011, 12:25 AM
Dead or Alive, im going to see it
Danilo
Danilo - 3/2/2011, 2:15 AM
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!
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 3/2/2011, 5:16 AM
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.
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 3/2/2011, 5:23 AM
CaptainProg@ Disturbing!;)
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 3/2/2011, 7:12 AM
JIZZ FACE

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