RoboCop: a new film by the director of District 9! – News Movie

Long Spoke for him to direct the fifth episode of the Alien saga, but it is to another cult science fiction franchise that Neill Blomkamp will finally devote his next feature film.

Indeed, the director of District 9, Elysium and Chappie was chosen to lead RoboCop Returns, a direct sequel to Paul Verhoeven's famous film in which policeman Alex Murphy, half-man and half-robot after a serious accident, led the law in the streets of Detroit. [19659004] This new feature will not take into account the two sequels made after the original movie or the 2014 remake, and will be based on a script written by Ed Neumeier (Starship Troopers) and Michael Miner in the late 80s for Robocop 2 A script that was not retained at the time and was recently exhumed by the news, as stated by Neumeier at the site Deadline :

"When Trump was on the point of being elected, [le président de la MGM Jon Glickman] called me and said: 'Have you really predicted in your scenario that a reality TV star would run for office and win?' That was the case, so Mike and I wrote a draft and did an interview on the island of Barbados, and I think the only person who read it was Neill Blomkamp, ​​and we started at work. "

    

                    
        
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The South African director, himself a fan of the original feature film and already fascinated by the theme of transhumanism, as his filmography proves, was pbadionate about the history he has taken. was about to tell:

"As I got older, the aspect of the film [original] that really resonated in me was identity, and the search for identity. are there, a good story can work in any period, it's not fixed in any particular place in history, which is great with Robocop, like in good westerns, good SF movies and good dramas, it is the importance of the human connections in the service of a good history. "

A short synopsis of the film was also unveiled: Anarchy reigns and the destiny of the city Detroit is under threat as RoboCop makes a triumphant return to fight crime and corruption.

While waiting for more information on RoboCop Returns, (re) discover the original trailer of the first movie …