RoboCop Reboot Director Reveals More Details

Date: Dec 1, 2011 | Author: David Wharton | Category: Sci-Fi

Assuming we have to have a RoboCop reboot in the first place, it would have been interesting to see what kind of movie Darren Aronofsky would have given us. Sadly, that’s not to be; Aronofsky bailed and Brazilian director Jose Padilha took the helm. Padilha’s resume definitely doesn’t compare to Aronofsky’s, but thanks to some details he has revealed in a new interview with Bleeding Cool, he does at least have an interesting take on the material.

Padilha says his version of RoboCop will be, at its core, the story of “a man being turned into a product by a corporation.” The new film will move away from the original’s themes of police corruption and instead focus on broader technological and ethical concepts. He wants to use the science fiction premise of a man being turned into the future of law enforcement to explore the implications our own imminent future.

Wars in the future are going to be fought with drones. We won’t send a plane with a pilot in, it will be drone. It’s getting that way now and ten years from now that’s how wars are going to be fought. But what if a drone goes wrong — who is to blame then? Do you blame the drone? And that problem asks if you can you consider a robot guilty of a crime. Or is it the corporation that made the robot that is guilty? … How do you fight back against drones when you don’t have drones?

Padilha previously said that his version of the RoboCop story would take focus on the actual process of creating RoboCop, a process that was only briefly touched on in the original film. That certainly tracks with these new details, but no real clue of what to expect Padilha’s RoboCop to look like. I can’t imagine the studio would sign off on a purely cerebral, low-action script, so I’m sure the movie will be more than scenes of engineers screwing parts onto an ex-cop and running test protocols. They’ve got to let him out to shoot some folks before all is said and done.

Either way, it is good to hear that Padilha wants to explore some corners of the RoboCop concept that the original didn’t flesh out fully. Otherwise, what’s the point in remaking it in the first place? (Not that that ever stops Hollywood, but still…)

Comments

Hawaii lover

HOLLYWOOD: STOP WITH THE REMAKES! There’s absolutely NO REASON besides greed to remake this film. You’d think, after all the recent remakes/reboots have all bombed at the boxoffice, that the stupid studio suits would try something different… say, like, an original film. But no; dumbasses continue to remake great films, because they’re lazy, greedy and their studios are nearly bankrupt. And, they’ll continue to bomb, meaning the studios will soon be bankrupt. Good job, morons…
Hobbes716

Further proof the last 20 years have produced people without an imagination. Unless the magical talking boxes tell us what to think, we are lost. As a teacher, I now have to TEACH kids to imagine things. Creative writing is a huge issue as they simply doesn’t know what I mean when I say “Use your imagination”. Obviously Hollywood is now full of people who can’t create things and must steal them from others.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Aaron-C-Jones/1395210862 Aaron C. Jones

A clear sign that the end of the big Hollywood era of filmmaking is coming to an end: The endless cannibalism of old ideas from better minds, by lesser men.
RoboFan

Make it prequel or sequel. I liked The Thing 2011 approach. Create a new story within the universe.

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