First Look: RoboCop Remake

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A teaser poster for MGM’s RoboCop reboot made an appearance at the NY Licensing Show via AICN. While the above art is not a definitive measure of what to expect, it’s our first look at how faithful the character design will remain to the original. Of course, the above RoboCop could stand atop a trusty hoverboard, wear Tommy Bahama shirts or merely be a disembodied head like Jambi. It’s Hollywood. A director has not been announced. This poster looks PG-13 to me. :P

  • LARRY LEONARDO
    I wonder if this will be as good as the PG-13 ROBOCOP 3!!!!


    Haha, this is probably going to be awful.
  • Peter R
    sweet....gotta go back and re-watch the old ones....
  • doesn't look too bad. it appears theyre gonna go in a completely different direction than the original film. i expect an ass kicking adventure that steers away from the philip k dick stuff. funny how that worked out.
  • Goobity
    Frank Miller!
  • Windmillninja
    Remakes these days are usually the result of a failed franchise (Batman) or a miserable start (Hulk). With that in mind, what the hell is wrong with the original Robocop? Wait...I remembered Robocop 3 as I was typing this. Nevermind. Carry on, MGM.
  • Reggie
    They should call up the guy who played Protocop in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang if there's a scene where Robocop picks up some chocolate chip cookies and then falls over a ledge.
  • Aaron
    Chasing the poster.
  • REMAKE AND BIOPIC FAN
    AWESOME!!!
  • Manuel E. Larios
    I've always wondered how a RoboCop remake would do if ever redone. I've always thought that the RoboCop character / saga would be great now-a-days with Hollywood pretty much consisting of a blue / green screens. Heres to hoping...
  • adman
    fail.
  • Wes_YDKSmovies
    do. not. want.
  • uh
    how does it look pg-13? fucking ridiculous comment.
  • orgcaptainnemo
    How do you release a fucking poster before you've A) Filmed ANYTHING and B) Even have a director?
  • edward
    hey hunter, if you're at the licensing show or know any sources at the licensing show, could you ask them to snap a few tidbits of "Where The Wild Things Are"?

    some people have said that jonze might make an appearance at the licensing show a long with more shots and poster artwork.

    thanks for the peak at the poster, much appreciated. hopefully verhoeven has some say in what's to happen.
  • edward
    double post again!

    i did some digging and found two images on AICN!
    http://www.aintitcool.com/images2007/NYwildthin...
    http://www.aintitcool.com/images2007/NYwildthin...

    and it's more than i wanted/expected. having read the screenplay, the vision jonze is producing is more epic and expressive than i had ever hoped for.

    anything else about WTWA at the licensing show would be much appreciated hunter, keep it up buddy.
  • Lone Star
    Isnt Iron Man technically Robocop haha
  • Captain Awesome
    Since Robocop has bigger balls and actually kills people. His acts of shooting criminals in the dick and turning people into walking noodles is why he owns Iron-Man for days.

    Also, his fist-spike and pistol-machine gun is just awesome.
  • The new youth audience will just think he's a cheap IronMan ripoff. Poor timing for a pointless remake of ROBOCOP.
  • albert brodsky
    I loved the first Robocop. I wonder if I still would today? I seem to remember that some of the stop-motion was a little cluncky. I wonder if the director would ever think about going back over the film and fix up some of the stuff that could have used it. Re-edition on a special DVD or Bluray.

    I need to watch it again. Starship trooper rocks as well. They should be watched back to back. It's the same director right? I could google it, but I'll just let you wacky message board trolls answer it for me.
  • albert brodsky
    And by the way, a Robocop without brutal violence is not worth watching. R or nothing.
  • Scott
    Robocop doesn't need a remake. Like Jaws...theres no reason to re-vamp it.
  • edward
    robocop compared to iron man?
    i don't think will draw that up. both radically different, only thing they have alike is that they're men with metal in or on them.

    goddamn honkies!
  • edward
    robocop compared to iron man?
    i don't think kids will draw that up. both radically different, only thing they have alike is that they're men with metal in or on them.

    goddamn honkies!
  • gocitizen
    Terrible idea. Please, stop remaking films. I wish Hollywood executives would at least TRY to grow a pair and do something original. Just a bunch of bottom line -cover their ass pussies.
  • vmquan
    I'm afraid of the popo.
  • 790
    Nice Captain Awesome, you allways make me laugh.
    But can Robo fly? Yeah I didn't think so.....

    I don't like the lights in the eyes. That looks too much like Shellhead or a Cylon or KITT blah ;-p..
    I don't want a remake I want a re-invision.
    Give us the story after the Murphy version.
    Give us a new Robocop but don't throw out the original. Explain Murphys death and expand on it. (Fricken dorks).

    Make him better, stronger, faster.... we have the technology,,,, !
  • Dear Hunter...

    Please make these fools read your emoticon. It is smiling as it should be.

    Unfortunately, Robocop is smiling in this poster. He should not be smiling.
  • 790
    Yeah what's with the smirk?
  • Captain Awesome
    790,

    He flew in the third film. Which bombed here and was a HUGE hit in Japan!

    Go figure ;)
  • Toaster27
    Your move creep.
  • 790
    Aaaaaahh you got me on that one Captain Awesome.
    I forgot the jetpack. Damm!
    Hahaha.

    Yeah Robo3 was really lame.
    I did like how the OCP, ceo's would rather kill themselves then look for another job.
    Rip Torn was memorable.

    But yeah Frank Miller really should at least be consulted on this new one.
  • 790
    "YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO PUT DOWN THAT WEAPON!!!
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  • Robocop 1 is awesome 2 is good cause its robocop

    after the horrible 3 im dowm for a remake
  • will they bring Peter weller back as the father of Robocop?
  • 790
    Forget that Schotsi, have the new version of RoboCop go after the killers of the original Robo, if you need that closure.
    I don't need a Weller cameo.
  • JFK
    So their remaking Citizen Kane now. Okay.


    FUCK OFF.
  • Cameron Robinson
    I actually think a remake is a good idea. Robocop was very much before my time but having heard so much about it I rented it out the other day.
    It's really not that great, in fact I'd actually call it a bad movie. The effects are terrible in parts and it had way to much of that 80's action movie cheesiness about it. Was Robocop 2 better?
  • mallone
    You're an idiot
  • 790
    You had to (be there) Cameron.
  • @ Cameron

    "..it had way to much of that 80’s action movie cheesiness about it."

    That might have something to do with the decade it was released, perhaps?
  • long. live. camp.
  • danno
    "I don't like remakes....and remakes don't like me!"
  • HAHAHA danno you made my day!
  • krackajap
    I just loved the social commentary in the first Robocop. I very much doubt they'd be able to keep the original feel of the first Robocop movie in a remake.
  • Captain Awesome
    krackajap,

    Considering how PG-13 is the flavor of Hollywood for most anything today. I can assume this will have a planend toyline and videogame in the works as well. Pretty sure this will most likely resemble Die Hard 4.0

    You'd be lucky to get any of that subtle political and social commentary in this remake plus graphic violence.
  • Dan
    Perhaps Jack Black can reprise his role from Be Kind Rewind?
  • What's with the easy bake oven eyes?

    Will Robocop go soft (batch) on us this time around?
  • Pete
    Un-necessary. The first Robocop was a classic, that you can not mess with. That would be like re-making Blade Runner, or Alien. I know that the other two Robocop's were lame, and the tv show was awful, but leave the original alone!
  • They could rip ideas from the cartoon series for their PG plot!
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=GaZGEFE30U0
  • J.D.
    Coming Soon: IRONCOP!

    And Scott: There WILL be a Jaws remake; remember BTTF 2? It'll be in 3-D sometime in 2015.

    I can't wait!
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