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Hugh Laurie Getting Villainous In RoboCop

June 13, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Now that House has finished on TV, Hugh Laurie can do what British actors are supposed to do in American entertainment – play villains! THR reports that he’s now in talks to play the bad guy in MGM’s planned remake of Robocop.

The actor will play the villainous CEO of OmniCorp, the conglomerate responsible for building the title character, played by Joel Kinnaman. The cast also includes Gary Oldman as an OmniCorp scientist, Samuel L. Jackson as a TV mogul, and Abbie Cornish as Joel Kinnaman’s wife, who still thinks he was killed in action.

José Padilha is directing from a screenplay by Joshua Zetumer, with shooting slated to begin later this summer in Toronto.

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ACTORS: Hugh Laurie, Joel Kinnaman  DIRECTORS: Jose Padilha  FILMS: Robocop (2013)  

RoboCop Gets Abbie Cornish

June 9, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Limitless and Sucker Punch star Abbie Cornish is in early talks to join the cast of RoboCop for MGM Studios and director José Padilha, playing the wife of the title character.

In the film Detroit cop Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) is left for dead after being shot on duty. He is turned into the half-man, half-robot crime-fighting machine RoboCop, who goes on a quest to clean up the city’s mean streets.

Cornish will play Murphy’s wife, who thinks her husband is still dead, unaware of his cyborg resurrection, although presumably she’ll find out the truth at some point! She joins a cast that also includes Gary Oldman and Samuel L. Jackson.

José Padilha is directing from a screenplay by Joshua Zetumer. Production is scheduled to begin later this summer in Toronto.

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ACTORS: Abbie Cornish, Joel Kinnaman  DIRECTORS: Jose Padilha  FILMS: Robocop (2013)  

Samuel L. Jackson Joins RoboCop Remake

June 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Samuel L. Jackson continues his mission to try and be in every major franchise going, as the actor has boarded the remake of RoboCop, opposite Joel Kinnaman in the title role. Jackson will play a big shot TV mogul named Pat Novak, a powerful force in the world inhabited by RoboCop.

The original movie featured many interstitial commercials and television parodies edited throughout the opening scenes of Alex J. Murphy’s transformation into a cyborg officer on the Detroit Police Department. This casting news indicates that the reboot might involve similar scenes, or at least make a nod to this particular future’s hyper-evolution in small screen entertainment.

RoboCop begins shooting in Toronto later this summer with Jose Padilha directing. Gary Oldman also stars. (Source: THR)

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ACTORS: Samuel L. Jackson, Joel Kinnaman  DIRECTORS: Jose Padilha  FILMS: Robocop (2013)  

Gary Oldman Joins RoboCop Remake

May 24, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The always dependable Gary Oldman has signed on to star in MGM Studios’ planned remake of the classic half-man half-machine sci-fi RoboCop, which José Padilha (Elite Squad) is set to direct.

In March that The Killing star Joel Kinnaman signed up to play Alex J. Murphy, a Detroit cop who is shot and left for dead on the street. He is rebuilt as the half-man half-robot crime-fighting machine known as RoboCop, who goes on a mission to clean up the mean streets.

Gary Oldman will play Norton, the scientist who created the title character and becomes torn between the morality of this machine trying to reclaim its humanity, and the needs of the corporation he works for. The character was not featured in the original 1987 Robocop, but could be an interesting addition.

The film will shoot in Toronto later this year. (Source: THR)

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ACTORS: Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman  DIRECTORS: Jose Padilha  FILMS: Robocop (2013)  

Joel Kinnaman Says New Robocop Will Have A Face

March 27, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

A Robocop remake has been in the works for years, going through various different scripts and ideas about how to bring the very 80s movie into the modern day. However things are now being pinned down as to exactly what direction they’re taking, as the movie will start shooting later this year, with Jose Padilha directing and The Killing’s Joel Kinnaman in the title role.

Now Kinnaman has been talking about this new version to MTV, saying that, “RoboCop is going to be a lot more human. The first movie is one of my favorite movies. I love it. Of course, Paul Verhoeven has that very special tone, and it’s not going to have that tone. It’s a re-imagination of it. There’s a lot of stuff from the original. There are some details and throwbacks, but this version is a much better acting piece, for Alex Murphy and especially when he is RoboCop. It’s much more challenging. It’s not going to be jaw action. They’re still working on the suit and how it’s going to look, but the visor is going to be see-through. You’re going to see his eyes.”

The actor also says that the movie will be dealing with real science and the study of neurons in the body. “There’s a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, ‘Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?’ and they’re finding out that, no, it’s not like that,” says Kinnaman. “The body has intelligence itself, and we’re much more of an organic creature in that way. It’s not a control tower that does everything.”

One of the more gruesome scenes in the original, which sees Murphy being shot to death, is going to be toned down. There will be no complete on-screen decimation of the man’s hand this time around. “Yeah. It’s going to be different. But it’s very good. I was looking to do a big movie and to show that I can carry a big movie, and I couldn’t be happier that this is going to be one of those big movies, a blockbuster, but that is also a real movie. A movie-movie. It’s going to have a political satire to it too. I’m super stoked. Especially with this director. José Padilha is a badass. He’s the real deal.”

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ACTORS: Joel Kinnaman  DIRECTORS: Jose Padilha  FILMS: Robocop (2013)  
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