#robocop returns

[omercifulheaves]

The direction Robocop Returns is going in is a bit unexpected but I say let’s see where they’re headed with this.

[amazingmrcinema007]

Hearing Neill Blompkamp depart once again from a really interesting film puts a damper on the soul.  Robocop Returns is still happening, just not without him as the director.  How many more great films is he going to be attached to that are inevitably cancelled before one of them becomes a reality?

[animusrox]

Neill Blomkamp to Direct New ‘RoboCop’ Movie, Based on Unmade Sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 Original

Screenwriters Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner never got to make a sequel to 1987’s “Robocop.” That’s all about to change.

MGM is developing a new installment of RoboCop and has set District 9 director Neill Blomkamp to helm the picture, which is titled RoboCop Returns. The studio hopes to revive a franchise that began with the Paul Verhoeven-directed satirical sci-fi action thriller that Orion released in 1987. Original writers Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner are producing and exec producing, respectively. Justin Rhodes, who co-wrote the Terminator film that Tim Miller is shooting, will rewrite the script that Neumeier and Miner wrote years ago as a planned sequel to Verhoeven’s hit, an installment that never happened. That duo is creatively involved in moving forward their creation for the first time since the original.  Blomkamp jumped at the chance to do a RoboCop that harkens back to and picks up the story line from the original film.

[wwprice1]

Robocop by Sean Gordon Murphy.

[mrawkweird]

‘District 9’ director to helm direct sequel to the original 1987 ‘Robocop’

District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp will reportedly helm an upcoming sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1987 sci-fi classic RoboCop, titled RoboCop Returns. The film will ignore the events of 1990's RoboCop 2 in order to reboot the violent cyborg-cop action franchise.

There ain’t no reboot tactics that go harder than “Nope; none of those sequels or reboots happened. THIS is the REAL sequel”. I’m actually really interested in seeing how it turns out.

This is like someone one day coming along, and saying they’re creating a direct sequel to the 1990′s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.....which I would also be curious to see.

[omercifulheaves]

My suggestion: Get Verhoeven back and then get the fuck out of his way.

[omercifulheaves]

Neill Blomkamp Directing 'RoboCop Returns' for MGM; Sequel to the Original Film! - Bloody Disgusting

He's been forced to leave his vision for the Alien franchise behind, but District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp has now found himself at the helm o

Huh. Wow. I’m kind of mixed on Blomkamp’s overall output -- Love District 9 despite some WHOA MAMA “problematic” bits, as the kids say, thought Elysium would have been something special with an extra pass or two at the script and he really needed somebody involved with Chappie that could tell him “NO!”...repeatedly -- buuut this could be interesting, if he’s working from a story by the original screenwriters? If nothing else the overall aesthetic and mechanical designs are gonna be GREAT. Wait and see, I guess.

[mk-wizard]

RoboCop SHOULD Return

I was thinking of making a long post as to why RoboCop should still get a reboot despite its last reboot being a dud, but really I can summarize it in three good reasons.

Number one, you should not give up just because you failed once.

Number two, all the other heroes have been adapted multiple times and struck gold multiple times when the creators understood them and respected the lore. RoboCop deserves that chance too.

Number three, all of the issues that RoboCop satirized and symbolized are still relevant today. Maybe even more so with the technology has evolved. I say, let's give it a chance. I think it could be great, fun and a great chance to expand the lore.