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- Neill Blomkamp's RoboCop Returns will be a sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1987 sci-fi classic.
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Oct 19, 2023 · However, multiple issues eventually sank the project back in the '80s. First, Verhoeven didn't want to direct a sequel. Second, Neumeier and Miner were busy working on a screenplay...
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Trivia. This movie will be a direct sequel of RoboCop (1987) that ignores RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993), as well as the remake RoboCop (2014).
The new film, reportedly titled Robocop Returns, will be directed by Abe Forsythe, and will ignore the whole franchise except the 1987 original.
Sep 16, 2020 · The upcoming sequel (the fourth at this point), RoboCop Returns seems like it couldn't come a moment too soon.
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The Detroit policeman (or ‘cop’) who is killed by criminals and brought back as a cyborg (or ‘robot’). Inspired by Judge Dredd, only the bottom half of his face is visible under his helmet. The franchise is famed for its over-the-top violence, Christ allegories and satire of corporations and mass media.
RoboCop (1987): The original and best, this is the installment where Murphy becomes RoboCop, a van drives through a person, the dad from That ‘70s Showswears a lot, Miguel Ferrer does loads of coca...RoboCop: The Animated Series (1988):Quite a few films from the ‘80s that absolutely weren’t suitable for children but were suitable for toy manufacturers had animated spin-offs. This was set in the...RoboCop 2 (1989): Despite being directed by The Empire Strikes Back’s Irwin Kershner, this one is a mixed bag, but deserves credit for one of the characters, the baddie, actually being named ‘Roboc...RoboCop 3 (1993):RoboCop is played by someone else in this one, co-written by Sin Citycreator Frank Miller. This is the first one to be deliberately toned down in order to appeal to children. It’s...Ed Neumier and Michael Miner wrote both the original and the remake, and they’re both good. The good news is, they (or at least Neumeier) is involved in the new one too.
Ed Neumeier, co-creator of RoboCop and co-writer of both the good films (as well as all the Starship Troopers movies) is currently holed up working on a new one. He told Barbados’ Zeitgeist Magazine: “It’s nice that people are still interested in RoboCop. They have me working on a new one at MGM right now so maybe we’ll get another one out of it.”
Neumeier continued: “We’re not supposed to say too much. There’s been a bunch of other RoboCop movies and there was recently a remake, and I would say this would be kind of going back to the old RoboCopwe all love and starting there and going forward. So it’s a continuation really of the first movie. In my mind. So it’s a little bit more of the old...
Setting it 30 years later would seem to make sense, showing how the crime-addled Detroit of the original has deteriorated. If they could get Peter Weller back in the armour, that could be pretty awesome - his Wikipedia picturemakes him look like the friendliest man in the world so he’d almost certainly say yes. They’d have to explain how, despite b...
As yet, nothing has been announced. It sounds like it’s in such early stages that it’s at least a few years off - it’d be amazing to see it before 2021.
Nov 21, 2019 · RoboCop Returns will be a direct sequel to the original 1987 RoboCop, and originally Neil Blomkamp was attached to direct.
Sep 26, 2024 · Instead, MGM began development on an entirely new direction for the series – RoboCop Returns, which would have ignored both the 2014 reboot and the two 1990s sequels, and served as a direct sequel to the 1987 original.
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