Do we need a reboot for RoboCop? The MGM studio hired filmmaker Neill Blomkamp ( District 9 ) to direct RoboCop Returns : official sequel to the original 1987 RoboCop film directed by Paul Verhoeven, according to the Deadline Web site on Wednesday.
The new movie will not be related to the remake of RoboCop launched in 2014directed by Jose Padilha.
RoboCop Returns will be produced by the writers of the original film, Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner, but the plot will be written by Justin Rhodes (in charge of the script of the new Terminator film currently filmed by director Tim Miller). The task of Rhodes is something new: he is rewriting the script of a sequel that Neumeier and Miner conceived years ago to be filmed at the end of the 80s of the last century (but that was never filmed).
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The story of the new movie, according to what Deadline publishes , seems simple: “Anarchy reigns and the fate of Detroit hangs in the balance while RoboCop makes its triumphant return to fight crime and corruption.”
“What’s so cool about RoboCop is that like good Westerns, sci-fi films and dramas, the human connection is really important to a story well told,” Blomkamp told Deadline . “What draws me now is someone searching for their lost identity, taken away at the hands of people who are benefiting from it, and seeing his memory jogged by events. That is most captivating.”
The recent remake of RoboCop in 2014 – which re-told the story of the cyborg policeman who was built to fight crime – did not reach the revenue at the US box office that the studio had foreseen, although it raised an impressive US $ 240 million at a world level.
It is not yet known when RoboCop Returns will be released in cinemas.
