ROBOCOP Remake Gets A New Writer

ROBOCOP Remake Gets A New Writer

MGM has hired Gran Torino scribe Nick Schenk to work on a new script for their long in development remake of Paul Verhoeven's classic sci-fi flick..

By MarkCassidy - Jan 31, 2012 06:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Robocop
Source: THR

According to THR Schenk will come aboard the movie which still has director Jose Padilha attached. The two had been working together on action thriller Tri-Border



MGM have been working on getting a remake (reboot, re-imagining - whatever word they want to use) of Robocop off the ground for years now but we haven't heard too much about it since Padila was said to have taken the director's chair. Apparently they hope to shoot the movie in the Summer although no actor has been cast in the lead role yet. Here is what Padilha had to say about the movie previously..

Wars in the future are going to be fought with drones. We won’t send a plane with a pilot in, it will be drone. It’s getting that way now and ten years from now that’s how wars are going to be fought. But what if a drone goes wrong – who is to blame then? Do you blame the drone? And that problem asks if you can you consider a robot guilty of a crime. Or is it the corporation that made the robot that is guilty? How do you fight back against drones when you don’t have drones?










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TreyT
TreyT - 1/31/2012, 6:54 PM
Oh. So, they're making iRobot?
Frankie312
Frankie312 - 1/31/2012, 7:06 PM
Michael Fassbender As Robocop!!!
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 1/31/2012, 7:19 PM
No no no

Eddie Murphy as Robocop :)
SageMode
SageMode - 1/31/2012, 7:19 PM
(sighs) SMH............why remake a classic like this?
MisterNiceGuy
MisterNiceGuy - 1/31/2012, 7:27 PM
Cillian murphy for robocop.... and the last name is just a coincidence haha
Alvahnomicron
Alvahnomicron - 1/31/2012, 7:28 PM
This is the worst idea in the long history of bad ideas...
KnobGoblin
KnobGoblin - 1/31/2012, 7:31 PM
The original ripped off Judge Dredd and The Dark Knight Returns so hard. Just because it did it well doesn't make it untouchable. I say bring on the remake. With the right approach it could end up being really great. The idea of melding man and machine has never been more relevant, and the era we live in is rife for satire.
Supes17
Supes17 - 1/31/2012, 8:01 PM
They're rebooting everything nowadays
RyanLantern77
RyanLantern77 - 1/31/2012, 8:01 PM
No Fassbender, he's in everything. Armie Hammer - Tall, deep voice, talented
Supes17
Supes17 - 1/31/2012, 8:05 PM
Reboots, 3D gimmicks. Hollywppd copies everything with success.
Hollywood is full of "Nolanites" and "Cameronites"

Nolan reboots Batman and makes a successful Dark Knight franchise-Hollywood starts rebooting EVERYTHING

James Cameron makes the most successful film in history and makes 3D famous- Hollywood starts releasing everything in eye-gouging 3D.

What's next?
CoLest
CoLest - 1/31/2012, 8:21 PM
I liked the direction Jose Padilha was taking it based on the last robocop article
thewonderer
thewonderer - 1/31/2012, 9:23 PM
@Supes

Nolanites is such a badass term
genesis609
genesis609 - 1/31/2012, 10:17 PM
fassbender please be murray!!!!!!!!
CapA
CapA - 1/31/2012, 10:43 PM
You don't remake The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, you don't remake The Godfather, you don't remake E.T., you don't remake Robocop.
luckylu
luckylu - 1/31/2012, 11:43 PM
dont remake it. just re-release it to theaters
ZombieOverEasy
ZombieOverEasy - 2/1/2012, 2:33 AM
@CapA Shhh, you're giving Hollywood "ideas".
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 2/1/2012, 3:08 AM
People need to stop watching remakes if they want Hollywood to stop making them.
No money! No movie! Simple as that!
But no people are far too curious to do that!

I myself couldnt give a crap anymore what they remake or reboot we are all going straight to hell anyway! -_-
comicb00kguy
comicb00kguy - 2/1/2012, 6:34 AM
Alex: Great point. If these crappy remakes bomb out at the box office, Hollywood will look elsewhere for ideas. The one thing they listen to is money.

SuspenseSmith: Excellent points. Your last line describes most of this recent and current batch of remakes.

mr2324jgf
mr2324jgf - 2/1/2012, 6:57 AM
Irony: Fanboys rebooting conversations about reboots in every reboot post/thread there is. Look, like it or not, it happens. Effin' deal with it. Besides that, your opinion is worthless and I'll explain why... remakes/reboots promote younger audiences discovering old stories. That itself breeds curiosity for older franchises, which in turn can bump sales. When kids find out robocop is being redone, and they ask what it is, and mom/dad goes and rents it for them or redboxes it or whatever... boom! an old movie makes some more cash. Stop b*tching about reboots already. If you don't like the idea, don't click the post. Simple.
drfate
drfate - 2/1/2012, 7:41 AM
wow, Robocop does not need a remake. ridiculous; you can't beat "I'd buy that for a dollar!" or "Can you fly, Bobby?"

I'd rather see a new story for Robocop; remake is a waste.
TurdFergunson
TurdFergunson - 2/1/2012, 11:20 AM
lets just hope they put this happy clip in. watch this and try not to laugh as much as i did. i jus pissed myself

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