Jose Padilha, director of the Elite Squad series (none of which I've seen, but #2 is tracking at 100% on Rottentomatoes!), did a little bit of talking about his upcoming Robocop reboot/remake/redo/rewhatever. The guy seems to have a good track record, but I'm not all that convinced that his concept for the character sounds interesting at all:
"I have my take on it. In the first RoboCop, when Alex Murphy is shot, gunned down, then you see some hospitals and stuff and then you cut to him as RoboCop. My movie is between those two cuts."
Wait.
So his movie is...something that was, what, summed up with a simple edit? Constructing RoboCop doesn't sound like a RoboCop movie. It sounds like an idea to explore in a different medium such as comic books. Verhoeven's film was already pretty hamfisted when it comes to the whole "when do we lose humanity?" message; this sounds like it's going to be an even more politicized attack on the issue. Perhaps the story development is still in a very infantile stage right now and that's Padilha's jumping-off point, but if this is coming after some serious time and energy, I don't care how much praise your unheard-of action flick is getting: stay away from RoboCop.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/robocop-remake-jose-padilha-director_n_1083690.html
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