First Trailer for the 'RoboCop' Remake!

RoboCop (2014)

 

Directed by Jose Padilha

 

Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Samuel L. Jackson and Jay Baruchel

 

 

 

 

 

For fun, below is the trailer for the 1987 original:

 

"RoboCop" Remake Gets Release Date

Sony has announced that the remake of RoboCop is set to hit theaters on August 9th, 2013.

The remake will be directed by Jose Padilha (Elite Squad) with a script written by Joshua Zetumer. Playing the title role will be Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) who, just recently, closed the deal with MGM.

For fun, I've posted the trailer for the original RoboCop from 1987:



Lead for "RoboCop" Remake Found

Deadline is reporting that MGM has found their lead for the remake of RoboCop. Joel Kinnaman (The Killing and Safe House) has accepted the offer to play the title role that was originated by Peter Weller in the 1987 original directed by Paul Verhoeven.

Set to direct is Jose Padilha with a script written by Josh Zetumer. Eric Newman and Marc Abraham, Strike Entertainment partners, will produce.

Writer for RoboCop Remake Found

Source: Deadline

It has been announced that MGM has hired Josh Zetumer to write the script for the upcoming remake of RoboCop.

While Zetumer may not be a high-profile writer, he does have some experience when it comes to writing scripts. He wrote a script for the remake of Dune when Peter Berg was still attached as director and he also wrote a script for a fourth Jason Bourne movie until those plans were put on the back burner. His first script, Infiltrator, made the Black List (a list for Hollywood's hottest unproduced scripts) and is set at Warner Bros. studios. It's a spy thriller with Leonardo DiCaprio set to star.

With Jose Padilha on board as director, the studio has announced that he will work closely with Zetumer in developing the remake.

Director Found For RoboCop Remake?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a director may have been found for the upcoming remake of RoboCop.

Last week, MGM met with directors, which included Robert Rodriguez (Desperado and Machete) and David Slade (Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night), but emerging to the top of the list was Jose Padilha and he's currently in talks with the company to direct the remake of the 1987 film directed by Paul Verhoeven.

Who is Jose Padilha? He is best known for writing and directing the Elite Squad films. In fact, Elite Squad 2, which was released in 2010, became the highest grossing film in Brazil's box office history.

After a director is signed on, MGM will then move on to finding a writer or writers to pen the script. The budget for the film will be around $80 million.

I'm now very interested in Padilha's films and have just added Elite Squad to my Netflix queue. No release date for the sequel has been announced, yet.

Here is the original trailer for RoboCop: