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RoboCop Director José Padilha Reveals New Details

The director of the upcoming RoboCop re-imagining, acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker José Padilha, has come forward with a few more details about the direction he'll be taking with the source material.   read more

Robocop Remake Gets Closer to Reality

The prospect of a remake of the 1987 sci-fi film Robocop has been discussed for a number of years now with critically-acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky once at the helm, but it was put on the back burner when MGM starting suffering from financial issues. However, perhaps due to renewed interest in the character in the form of a public outcry—nay, demand—for a Robocop statue in the city of Detroit, the remake is becoming more of a possibility....  read more

Robocop Statue Update: It's Happening

Last week, a tweet intended in jest to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing sparked an internet campaign to bring a Robocop statue to Detroit. Last we heard, fans had rallied behind the idea, setting up a Kickstarter page for the project, pledging to raise $50,000 to fund the statue....  read more

Detroit Artists Work to Fund RoboCop Statue

What started off as a simple joke has now become a movement to erect a statue of RoboCop in Detroit....  read more

Darren Aronofsky actually adapting Robocop?!

After the trio of prestige art films (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain), most people thought they had Darren Aronofsky pegged. Then this year he decided to make a film called The Wrestler, and cast seemingly washed-up actor Mickey Rourke in the title role. The film earned rave reviews at last week's Toronto International Film Festival, and won the top award at the Venice Film Festival. But turns out that was just the beginning of the surprises Aronofosky has in store for us. According to reports, Aronofsky has finished up his script for an original version of Robocop. As...  read more

Robocop to be reinvented by Darren Aronofsky

For the past several weeks, it's been floating around that Darren Aronofsky would be taking over Robocop and restarting the franchise. Frankly, we were too skeptical about the whole thing to report on it, since the whole thing sounded more like rumor than fact. But as strange as it sounds, it is indeed true. With David Self (Road to Perdition) writing the screenplay, the new Robocop  movie is being fast-tracked for release in 2010....  read more