We’ve asked before to no avail, but finally director Darren Aronofsky has come out and admitted that his new Robocop movie will not be a sequel to the previous three movies, but a ground-up reboot to the mechanical cop franchise. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that we’ll be robbed of seeing Peter Weller one more time…Talking to Empire Magazine, Aronofsky called the new movie
…[A] real reinvention… Me and David Self are working on the screenplay. He’s a great, great writer and we’re trying to do something new and fresh.
You may recognize Self’s name from Road To Perdition – and he’s also rumored to be working on two Marvel movies, Ghost Rider 2 and Deathlok – which suggests that he’ll have the right kind of comicky take on this particular Judge Dredd rip-off. But don’t take Aronofsky’s talk of a fresh take and reinventing the movie to be any kind of slam on Paul Verhoven’s original movie:
I’m a big fan of the original. It still holds up as an amazing film, and I think it’s more just looking at that same type of material in the 21st century and seeing where it leads us.
Such a fan of the original, in fact, that he’s already hinting at a Peter Weller cameo. Personally, my fingers are crossed that Nancy Allen will manage to make an appearance. Darren Aronofsky Talks RoboCop Remake[Empire]
