Robocop Reviews, Interviews & More
The remake of Robocop keeps rolling forward, despite casting changes, rampant rumors of a director in over his head, and an utterly underwhelming robotic body that basically looks like Christian Bale’s batsuit with Judge Dredd’s helmet attached. But hey, now he has a motorcycle! You’ve just gotta see it!
Things just seem to be getting worse and worse with the upcoming RoboCop reboot. After news broke of a hilariously bad script, casting negotiation breakdowns, and a production out of the director’s control, pictures have leaked of the new RoboCop suit. And, instead of actually looking like a robot’s body with a face attached to it (like in the excellent original), now it just...
Michael Keaton is back in a big way; his acting is on the rise and now it seems he’s looking to get behind the camera again, as well. Just a week after taking the opportunity to replace Hugh Laurie as the juicy new RoboCop villain, news is out that Keaton’s now attached himself to direct the indie film Buttercup, described as a “dramedy”.
It’s been a rough summer for director Jose Padilha. His upcoming RoboCop reboot has met with almost universal disdain even before production began on the film, thanks to a fervent fanbase dedicated to the original film. Then Hugh Laurie backed out of the film, with rumors flying that his exit was due to a poor script (Laurie was later replaced with Michael Keaton). Then,...
The RoboCop reboot has been taking some lumps lately, with reports of a henpecked and filmmaking-by-committee production that’s out of the director’s control, and then the news that Hugh Laurie was backing out of negotiations to play the villain in an already pretty auspicious cast. Well, the film finally hit another bit of good luck in the casting department—Michael Keaton...
Recently the Robocop remake has had some casting bumps and shuffles, with Hugh Laurie leaving the project, but more damning was the news that the script for the reboot is supposedly terrible. And from recent news, it sounds like director Jose Padihla may agree with that.
José Padilha’s RoboCop remake isn’t exactly having its best month—coming on the heels the script leaking to an entertainment writer who publically bashed the apparently terrible reboot is the news that Hugh Laurie will not be playing the film’s Big Bad after all. Laurie had entered negotiations for the role back in June; however, it appears he will not be...
The modern remake or reboot: typically, it’s a film with rather low expectations attached. Most (but not all) modern remakes are of the clunker variety—lifting the basic plot points of the original, but often with little to no translation of the subtext, chemistry, or intelligence that made the original film so popular in the first place. And while no one seems to be expecting the...
The RoboCop remake—despite initially sounding like yet another studio-mandated attempt to capitalize on a popular ‘80s property by cannibalizing it to the bone in the hope that the foreign markets will yield a profit—gets strangely more intriguing with each and every new casting announcement made for the film. And today, add one more to the remake’s surprisingly impressive...
After eight seasons of playing the stubborn, mean and selfish (yet utterly brilliant) genius that is Dr Gregory House, one might wonder what’s next on the cards for star Hugh Laurie. Well, now we’ve got the answer – he’ll be making a turn as an evil villain in José Padilha‘s upcoming remake for MGM of Paul Verhoeven‘s 1987 sci-fi...
The casting for Jose Padilha's remake of Robocop keeps pouring in. After Gary Oldman and Samuel L. Jackson joined the cast, it's now looking like Abbie Cornish will be playing the wife of Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), who is killed and then transformed into the half-man, half-machine and all cop.
A remake of the Paul Verhoeven 1980s classic RoboCop might strike some as sacrilege—the story of a good cop in the near future who’s killed by thugs, cybernetically revived by science, and forced to star in a series of increasingly bad sequels and a TV series, is cherished by many fans of 80s sci-fi. However, the just-announced addition of Gary Oldman to the...
The world seems to have tired of Russell Crowe as a leading man, but that's not stopping Hollywood from giving him juicy roles. Crowe has recently been rumored for the lead in Darren Aronofsky's Noah, according to Deadline Hollywood, and Vulture recently said he was "in talks" for Akiva Goldsman's Winter's Tale. And now Variety's Jeff Snieder...
Robots! Despite cinema telling us over and over that once we build them, they'll become our mechanized overlords, hell-bent on wiping out humanity -- we can't shake them. It’d still be really cool to have them around to do the dishes, our homework, vacuum, and pay our bills now and again. Right? Our fascination with robots have long been a subject of film, and here at ScreenCrave, we've...
Peter Serafinowicz is a mad man. Best known as the voice of Darth Maul, and as Shaun's less compassionate flatmate in Shaun of the Dead, he's also a UK TV star, with his shows "Look Around You", and "The Peter Serafinowicz Show." Recently he's branched into working stateside with a supporting role on the now-cancelled "Running Wilde," and a humorous part in Couples...
With its recent financial woes, MGM has been at a loss for the past two years delaying the latest James Bond film and leaving both Cabin in the Woods and their Red Dawn remake unreleased. But don't worry, there's hope! Not only does their RoboCop remake now have a director attached, it also has a writer. According to...
If you were born and raised in Detroit, RoboCop isn't just a movie, it's a piece of history. Granted it's a piece of Hollywood-produced history, but the film is set in the city and the backdrop plays an important role in the story. Therefore whenever anyone talks about developments with the reboot my ears perk up! We thought the movie was dead in the water after MGM...
As a native of Detroit (not the metropolitan area but the actual city) I'm ecstatic to report this news. According to the Detroit Free Press, fans of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 sci-fi action film RoboCop have taken matters into their own hands and generated enough money to erect a statue of the title character in the city.
MGM can add another causality to their list of delayed if not canceled films. The Hobbit still hasn't been green lit, James Bond has been put on hold indefinitely, and Joss Whedon said that if Bond is getting that kind of treatment he has no idea when his flick Cabin in the Woods will hit theaters. Now according to a report from Moviehole,...
It's been a while since we've heard about Darren Aronofsky's reboot of the sci-fi film, RoboCop. Last year it seemed like it would move to the top of his "to direct" list after the success of The Wrestler, but instead Black Swan swooped in and took precedence. This left anxious fans wondering if the film was still...
