‘RoboCop’ Coming Back
July 25th, 2008 in Action, Adventure, Directors, Movie News, Sci-Fi, Sequels, The Movie Biz, remakes
Darren Aronofsky is set to direct the next RoboCop the movie about hero who’s “part man, part machine and all cop.”
MGM is bringing the film to the screen and is keeping the logline under wraps, but insiders say it will take the sci-fi vigilante classic in more of a noir direction, according to Variety.
To bring you up to date the original films centered on a fatally wounded cop who returns to the police force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories. After 1987’s RoboCop and its two sequels hit the big screen, both films are solid earners for MGM’s film library as DVDs.
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July 25th, 2008 at 5:08 am
What the hell is up with Darren Aronofsky? After making three brilliant and distinct movies, he’s now making two sports films (a wrestling and a boxing flick), and reviving a series that simply does not need reviving. Is this punishment for The Fountain’s box office failure?
July 25th, 2008 at 10:02 am
If you take a look at Aronofsky’s path to film making, he takes on projects that never quite make it to the screen.
The Fountain had a heck of a time getting produced and then failed. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchet were attached, with movie sets in place, Pitt bowed out.
The Fighter’s path is similar.
Not only does Aronofsky have RoboCop, but he also has a handful of other film projects. Who knows how the production will play out to the screen.
The wrestling film sounds like a sure in for a money making venture — it’s a biopic — and could prove fruitful.
I am not interested in wrestling, but it’s very popular overall and brought in $486 billion 2007 in the US alone with a net profit of $52 million. Those numbers say a lot when you are looking for an audience.
July 25th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Yes, but is he being forced into a biopic because he signed a contract with Warner when making The Fountain, and now he’s being regarded as genre-trash making because his vision does not equate to big bucks. You have to admit that the profundity of his previous films will not be matched with a wrestling and boxing pic.
July 25th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Yes. You are right, the films are not the same. But, having a money making venture does create the right effect for a director to make the movies he wants to make.
July 25th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Sorry to but in here guys but my mum always told me that if you failed at something you just try try again. I think he’ll will make a comeback soon.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
You’re mum was right.