Neill Blomkamp Remaking Robocop
 

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Oh Christ.


How the hell is Blomkamp still getting work?

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So will this be before or after Greenland? Either way, I'd be interested in seeing it. The special effects alone are going to be bonkers.

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First glimpses at the new RoboCop suit...


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This is going to be a piece of ****

OMG:eek: Please...tell me that's a joke! If that's the new Robocop, ugh! What a wimpy looking outfit. I hope that's just robocop's flame retardant underwear.

What's next? a remake of Starship Troopers with the Nazi's as the bad guys:rolleyes:

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So it's a brand new sequel, not a remake or remake of a previous sequel. Could be interesting.

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Well this was his Alien concept http://bloody-disgusting.com/wp-cont...kampalien7.jpg


Wouldn't be surprised if his Police Force in RoboCop looked like this:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2gRU-QVEAE_eC5.jpg

I thought Neill was doing a Sequel for District 9?

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The thread title is rather misleading if this is actually a sequel to the original rather than yet another remake.

I thought that as well, I would be alright with calling it a "reboot" though, on the order of the new Halloween.

I'm not a big fan of RoboCop. I own the original film on DVD and I didn't find a whole lot to say about it. Then, I watched the remake and I thought it was decent, but, once more, nothing to write home about. I wouldn't be against it, but I'd say I definitely don't have the enthusiasm some do in-regards to this news. A random thought is how much I'd love to see Dredd 2.

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Will Sharlto Copley be the immoral business man or the crazed future gangster?

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With that accent, the latter. :lol:

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I guess we can go ahead and add Die Antwoord as his cronies.

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I thuoght neill was doing a sequel to district 9?

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Funny though. I didn't care for uh... Chappie? But I thought Yo-Landi held her own considering I expected absolutely nothing from them. Maybe it was just the low contrast from the rest of the cast? It was kind of fun to see Hugh Jackman in shorts though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1gB4cq0Wr8

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Twist: this is the District 9 sequel. District 10 falls under the same sedition as it’s preceding internment camp and the heartless executives at OmniCorp supply corrupt South African authorities with weaponry to further oppress the prawns. With the return of Christopher Johnson impending, Wikus must seek out the one man who can end the violence and help get stranded aliens back to their home world... one man, part machine, but all cop.

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Cool. That movie stands on its own but i can handle that.

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From what I've read about it being a sequel to the original movies, is that it is going to completely ignore RoboCop 2 and 3 and be a direct sequel to the first film, and the first film only.
Blomkamp was going to do the same with Alien a few years back and make a fan boy fan movie that just ditches all established cannon.


Said this before about Bumkrap... he's a total hack.
He made 1 half decent film with District 9... the rest of his stuff is either fan fiction or S&M body-dysmorphia fetish movies.

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Oh bugger. That doesnt look foo good, rattus.

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In fairness, I don't think the idea of ditching RoboCop's existing canon is as bad as ditching the post-Aliens canon because the RoboCop movies are already much more episodic than the Alien movies so it doesn't really matter so much if a new film disregards all two of the sequels (neither of which is held in the same esteem as Aliens, which is the only sequel that would've been kept in that instance). That being said, I do agree with the idea that it would be a little too close to bad fanfic, especially when Chappie already came across as a RoboCop knock-off.

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Honestly Elysium is one of my guilty pleasures - like it quite a bit so I don’t mind the director but have not seen chappie. The pic rodent posted though...surely that’s a joke lol...because that is a gimp outfit and robo cop is a cop not a robo sexdoll which are probably the future btw. I’m going to think about investing in a robo sex doll company.....

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Came in here thinking there was a remake, only to be led astray...

https://www.breizh-info.com/wp-conte...-fake-news.jpg

Well, we had that one crappy remake recently. :sick:

d o e s a n y o n e e v e n r e m e m b e r
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https://screenrant.com/neill-blomkam...-peter-weller/


Blomkamp wants Peter Weller to return to play RoboCop

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So now this is becoming a trend in Hollywood. Make direct sequels to the original franchise film while ignoring the past sequels. Halloween, The Terminator, and now RoboCop.


I'll ONLY be interested in seeing this IF Peter Weller returns as Murphy/RoboCop. If he bails, then so will I.

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Hope they bring back Nancy Allen as Lewis while they're at it.

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Weller is 71. Not sure if this is a good idea.

They killed her off in part 3. But they also killed off Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) in Terminator 3 and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in Halloween Resurrection, so...yeah, they can bring her back from the dead, too.

Yeah, but Stallone is 72 and he's back as both Rocky and Rambo. Arnold is 72 and he's back as T-1000. Peter obviously belongs to the same league of old badasses who refuse to age :)

They can fix her. They can fix anything.

(also I clearly forgot that part of #3, but there was a lot to forget in that damn movie)

I admit that I have no idea about Weller's current physical condition. Stallone's probably in decent condition still but Arnold should retire (he looks like an old man now, not an action star). I'm just afraid it's going to be a stuntman in the suit and Weller's face added with CGI or something.

I wish I could forget the flying scene :rolleyes:

You mean this scene?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REItHTPjCF4

Yeah, that ***** was horrible! UGHHH!

Exactly that :D

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RoboCop 3 was heavily influenced by the TV series tbh.
Even with Nancy Allen and Robert DoQui returning, I don't really see it as an official RoboCop movie... it's more an extension of the TV show.


At least RoboCop 2 was half decent. If Weller is back they can't disregard RoboCop 2.
It'll be sad if Hacky McBumkrap totally disregards RoboCop 2 imho.

I liked RoboCop 2. The kid hanging with the bad guys was really good. The bad guy who becomes "Robocop 2" was great, too.


The movie overall was cheesy, funny, and good fun.

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I had such a crush on Paul Weller's Robocop. :blush:

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Yeah, RoboCop 2 is surprisingly good for a sequel, and a sequel to a Verhoeven movie too for that matter.


Ever seen the Starship Troopers sequels? Or Basic Instinct 2?
Ugh.


Written by Frank Miller (who also played a role in the movie), though the finished movie gladly swayed from his vision a lot of the time (his original script was garbage tbh)... and Kershner has a knack for making decent sequels.
Ok, so 2 isn't as hard edged as the original, and they had to tone the gore down to something that looked more comicbook but this was down to the first film being a hit with kids... but the action is definitely on par if not better than the first movie.
Solid cast too with the additions of Tom Noonan, Galyn Gorg, Tzi Ma, Wanda De Jesus, Mark Rolston, with John Glover making a cameo too.
And I totally agree about the kid. Gabriel Damien's "Hob" was a really good addition. Made a decent angle to the bad guys.

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Don't knock stuntmen...they're amazing. <3

So they're completely neglecting the remake?

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https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/...bocop-returns/

Blomkamp wants Peter Weller to reprise his role as Alex Murphy/Robocop.

If Weller agrees and returns, I'm all for this sequel.

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Yeah, he said the same thing a few months back and that was already linked on the previous page. I think this should wait until there's actually something substantial to report like Weller actually agreeing to return.

The date of the report is January 23 so I figured it was new.

I sure hope Weller signs on. I mean I doubt he's got something better to do considering he's been out of the limelight since Robocop 2.

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Eh, I'm not so sure. He did more or less quit movies to be an academic so I can understand him not taking his acting career too seriously these days, though I guess he did show up in Star Trek Into Darkness a while back so you never know.

I think it’s been said here already that Robocop wouldn’t be much strain on Weller anyways. You just need him for some close-ups without the top of the helmet.

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The remake is ****e, there i said it

No he s done a couple of films, like leviathan xd lol, mind the sarcasm

He had the movement down though.
Weller's miming and the work he put into the character's gait is the only reason the concept even worked.


Sure they could get some stunt man involved and maybe CGI the mouth to look right... but it wouldn't be the same.


I think they'd probably need to have Weller's RoboCop die or go out of commission and they have to build a new one.

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Actually, maybe the route of having an S on the title could work in that respect...


Neill Blomkamp's RoboCops (2020).

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Abe Forsythe, son of satirical Aussie actor Drew Forsythe, is now directing.


Abe's known for directing a controversial black comedy based on the 2005 Cronulla Riots called Down Under, and acting in a handful of parody movies when he was a child.
He's also acted in a couple satirical stage plays when he was a kid.



The only directing credit I can find is 2019's Little Monsters which went under the radar, and got mixed reactions.



Things are not looking good.


Doesn't really make much sense to give something like RoboCop to a complete nobody... whose only experience is the fact that their dad has acted in a handful of satirical movies.

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Isn't that just standard practice for franchise films nowadays? That you pick an up-and-coming director who just needs to point a camera at characters talking while the second unit takes care of the actual action? That certainly sums up Colin Trevorrow making the jump from a low-budget indie like Safety Not Guaranteed to a blockbuster sequel like Jurassic World. At least with the remake it made sense to get the guy who made the Elite Squad movies because he at least had a history with directing police movies that managed to include both action and at least some criticism of the police as an institution (even if that didn't ultimately translate into the remake being a good movie).

In any case, I have seen Down Under and Little Monsters. The former is a fairly decent little black comedy - think along the lines of Four Lions - that would imply that Forsythe could handle the satirical bent that really makes RoboCop what it is. On the other hand, I thought Little Monsters was an atrocious excuse for a quirky zombie comedy (imagine Life is Beautiful but it's a teacher convincing her class that a zombie outbreak is just part of a game they're all playing) that doesn't manage to be fun or poignant or razor-sharp or anything you'd hope from either a zombie movie or a RoboCop movie. It might actually be the worst zombie movie I've ever seen and that's saying something. So yeah, that definitely makes the news worse.

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