Comments on: RoboCop Remake is to be a Sequel

By: Mike Mai

Mike Mai — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:28:03 +0000

no fucking way, robocop 3 was fucking horrendous cuz peter weller didn’t reprise his role. peter weller is a fucking legend, he made robocop. if he didnt, nobody would recognize him as robocop, and trust me, many people recognize him. it was funny, a while ago we watched a history show in class and he was the narrator, everyone in my class was like ROBOCOP!!!

By: Rodney

Rodney — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:38:14 +0000

Why do you “need” him. Its not like he made the film. He did his part, but it would have been the same with just about any actor really.

Anyone can wear the suit. and for the better part of the movie all you saw was his lips anyways.

Anyone can be cast as Robocop. However I would like to see the original character involved somehow. But the actor is replaceable.

By: Mike Mai

Mike Mai — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:35:36 +0000

we NEED peter weller!!!!

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:47:49 +0000

This is GREAT news. If you watch the original, it still stands up really well by todays standards. (even the effects… about the only thing really dated is just a little 80s fashion) No need to remake it just so that a few things can seem a little bit more futuristic.

I heard ages ago that Paul Verhoeven wanted to do a sequel, set years after the first film where Robo is bought back online. I was devastated to hear we were getting another stupid remake instead… now it looks like we may be getting the original idea for the sequel after all!

The beauty with something like this, being set so many years after the original, is that it can allow the crappy sequels and TV shows to all still exist as cannon, but not necessarily have to refer back to them at all. Nothing has to be overwritten or started from scratch.

By: leeloo

leeloo — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:35:19 +0000

aronofsky!

By: doug nagy

doug nagy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:27:16 +0000

I hope they can lure Weller back into the suit.

This is glorious news!

By: digitaldrew

digitaldrew — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:21:55 +0000

Hehheh

New (evil) robocop vs Old robocop.
New robocop shoots Old robocop in face.
Old robocop dies.
and scene.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:39:04 +0000

good idea. I don’t think they have to redo the entire first film, nor will they lose any of the references by continuing the story.

The whole idea of outdated technology (Robocop) fighting a new robot (the drug-addicted thing in the sequel) has already been done, so I doubt that is going to be the case.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:31:46 +0000

@ JoJo,
Weller is indeed a history professor teacher, but he does still take on a supporting acting role now and then.

In any case, RoboCop/Murphy has been since recast at least three times (R3, the series, MS Prime Directives) so it would not surprise me if the part was recast yet again.

I do like the idea of having a “new” Robo” program and the idea of several ‘RoboCops’ (or new & improved ED 209’s?) …but I also hope there isn’t a message of ‘out with old model, in with the new’ and have RoboCop come back and take down the newer model.

Why, you ask?
Wasn’t that in RoboCop 2?

By: Jojo

Jojo — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:05:25 +0000

Huge fan of the original series… one and two were solid but three ran out of gas (despite being filmed in my hometown of Atlanta)

Any word on whose playing Murphy? Peter Weller is a history professor now isn’t he?