Before anyone complains that "this isn't horror", the first ROBOCOP was originally given an X-rating by the MPAA for scenes of “excessive violence.” It's pretty damn bloody, and it's pretty damn disgusting... good enough for me. Today we received word that MGM and Phoenix Pictures are close to pegging Darren Aronofsky to direct the latest "remake", which we also discovered is actually a sequel! Here's the logline: Present day Los Angeles, 20 years after the termination of the RoboCop program, the city decides to reinstate the program. If this all happens, I'd love to introduce Aronofsky to THE DARK KNIGHT, where he can see how to do it right...
You're right -- Robocop isn't a horror movie. Doesn't belong on this site, honestly. If being bloody is the only requirement then you better start covering action films as well.
With Darren attached I'll be less worried, but not relieved. I watched the original again recently and it still stands up 20 years on, only the effects look a little dated, but in a good way - Robocop has aged like a good wine. Leave it alone, but if you really have to make another I guess Darren is the guy for the job.
KM
Kiko, I agree with you when it comes to Robocop's violence as it was an integral part of the story - Detroit had become so violent that they had to tackle violence with violence. If the new film isnt viloent we'll have a brand new Alen vs Predator
KM
Well it's a relief to know that Fred Dekker isn't directing this and this is going to be a sequel. I just hope they don't turn this into something like the Transformers and stay with the ultra violent action like the first one. Though, I still think someone at the studio should kiss Paul Verhoven's butt real hard and get him back.
sweet i hope that it is a sequel wonder if theyll brinb back some of the survivors from the third one? i wish they didnt kill lewis off though....hpefully this will be good!
is good to be a secuel and all that said is not horror stop make coments about batman 2 if Darren Aronofsky make batman you see the real batman not this thing.
also robocop is a great scifi-gore movie
nice new mr. Disgusting
EVERYONE FORGOT THE FOURTH ONE? IT WAS CALLED PRIME DIRECTIVES AND HAD ROBOCOP REPLACED BY A MORE ADVANCED MODEL. OFFICER JOHN CABLE WAS BETRAYED BY HIS WIFE(SARAH CABLE) AND WAS MADE INTO A SHINY NEW ROBOCOP. HE COULD HOLD TWO GUNS AT ONCE, WOWIE.....
No dissing Dekker. He hates it, as well. And the fourth was the TV series, I believe.
Anyway, if anyone can tap into the feel of the original, it would be Aronofsky. Sounds good!
Great to see this will be a sequel. It looks like "sequels" AREN'T totally dead. I think approaching the project as a sequel is more ballsy and gains more of my respect than trying to restart the franchise.
Los Angeles??? If i remember correctly, wasnt Robocop deployed in "Old Detroit"...
Perhaps it is a remake and they are giving it a pretend backstory....
:( its not a Robocop movie without Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen).
I agree with a couple of the other blogs.......ROBOCOP IS NOT HORROR !!!!!
Why is this news on B-D ??? Because it has bloody violence ? So would we call The Godfather, Goodfella's, and Pulp Fiction Horror?? Great movies = YES.
Horror = Duhhhhh, NO FOR FUCKS SAKE !!!
I'm guessing it takes place after the first movie, completely ignoring the first sequel, the second sequel, the cartoon, the live action tv series, the tv miniseries sequel and any comics.
oh my god i still remember watching the TV series when it was first released - still remember the opening scene where Robo stops (i think) a bank robbery.... and he like shoots down the chandelier onto badguys and a whole buncha shit like that... never actually Shooting anyone directly. Worst Show Ever. First two movies kicked ass though... Robo 3 was f*cking crap.
If it's a sequel, then I'm all for it. "Re-makes" are the plague of the motion picture industry. I don't know if they could replace Verhoeven as the director. He was a maestro and I miss his directing savvy (disregarding Showgirls, of course). For the record, Robocop combines Science Fiction/Horror and Action to create one hell of a movie, and it's gorier than most films today, if one says it's not a horror film then they might as well say Alien was a Science Fiction film and not a Horror film, when in fact it was both. That's just my two cents.
Present day LA?
What does LA have to do with RoboCop and OCP in DETROIT ? And it was in modern times? An alternate moderntimes I guess.. LAME!
OCP is a national/worldwide company, but Robo was one of a kind.
Hell yeah! Bring on "RoboCop 4", as long as they don't PG-13 it all to hell again, and they keep it with a solid R-rating!
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