So where does the upcoming ROBOCOP reboot rank on your most anticipated list? … That low, huh? I can’t say I blame you. But perhaps today’s news will make you think twice about that… Probably not… but maybe?
You see the guys over at ComingSoon got a chance to chat it up with director Jose Padilha, which is exactly who is in line to direct ROBOCOP. Now the interview was about Padilha’s ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN but the topic quickly changed to ROBOCOP (duh). So what did the director have to say about his vision for this remake? Check it:
“‘RoboCop’ the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of ‘RoboCop’ is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, ‘To when do you lose you humanity?’ The way it does that is by replacing body parts with machine parts, and that’s very smart because guess what? It’s going to happen!
I have my take on it. And I can tell you this: In the first ‘RoboCop’ when Alex Murphy is shot, gunned down, then you see some hospitals and stuff and then you cut to him as RoboCop. My movie is between those two cuts. How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?
Listen, they gave me the job, I’m going to do it my way, so yeah, you’re going to see myself in there. For bad or for good, I’m going to shoot it the way I shoot it.”
So we get somewhat of an origins story on the ‘Robocop’ technology. Sounds exciting…. Not. To be fair I’m entirely against this reboot so it’s going to be hard to see any silver lining here. Perhaps you guys are more open-minded about this one? Do you like what Padilha is selling? Spit some bullets below and let us know!
As always you can bet we’ll be keeping a close eye out for any more ROBOCOP updates as we near it’s start date (Padilha hopes Early 2012) so be sure to check back soon for that!
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