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Originally Posted by Kazanne

No one could beat Peter Weller in the original Robocop,my brother and I loved that film.

Sure
thats a Great Film.



I am getting this sent on BluRay DTSHD 7.1 Sound.


Some parts of America are so down
and bankrupt like Detroit
so in the Future
Robot police could happen
in my Worldwide View

[Scarlett.]

I agree, the versions with Peter Weller can't be topped, but I did like this remake in a different way.

[James]

They are making a new one - a followup to the original 1987 film.

'Robocop Returns' Lands 'Little Monsters' Director Abe Forsythe (Exclusive)
NOVEMBER 20, 2019 2:44PM by Borys Kit

MGM has tapped rising filmmaker Forsythe, the helmer of the Lupita Nyong’o zombie comedy Little Monsters, to direct Robocop Returns.

The project is being developed as a direct follow-up to the 1987 movie released by Orion.

Atlas Entertainment’s Richard Suckle, along with Ed Neumier and Michael Miner, the screenwriters of the original film who are considered its co-creators, are producing.

Directed by Paul Verhoeven, Robocop centered on a police officer who, on death’s doorstep, is used as an experiment to create a new type of patrolman, one that is half man, half machine (but "all cop," as the poster said). The new creation then struggled with resurfacing memories and corrupt city officials.

Sequels followed in 1990 and 1993, with MGM, which acquired Orion in 1997, first attempting a reboot in 2014 with a modern take directed by Jose Padilha.

Neumeier and Miner wrote the script for the sequel years ago with Justin Rhodes, who worked on the recent Terminator: Dark Fate, writing on the project on a recent draft that had, in 2018, Neill Blomkamp attached to direct.

Forsyth will rewrite the script penned by Rhodes.

Robocop is a major step in terms of scale for Forsythe, who was an actor before turning to directing shorts and TV shows in his native Australia. Little Monsters, a low-budget indie co-financed by Screen Australia, gained strong notices when it bowed in October in a limited release before streaming on Hulu.

Forsythe is repped by CAA, Grandview and Hansen Jacobson.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...rsythe-1256699

Even though these recent sequels / remakes haven't done well - Men in Black, Child’s Play, Doctor Sleep, Terminator: Dark Fate, Charlie's Angels.

[Amy Jade]

I thought Childs Play did okay considering it's budget.

[James]

Yeah, that one ended up doing okay for it's budget, now I look.

I thought more people would go see a Shining sequel. The others I'm not surprised at.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by James

Even though these recent sequels / remakes haven't done well - Men in Black, Child’s Play, Doctor Sleep, Terminator: Dark Fate, Charlie's Angels.

Indeed... I read an article about this the other day (it was mainly about Dark Fate and Blade Runner 2049). Certain films have performed below expectation and the article basically argued that it's not even about the quality of the films... it's that they're direct sequels to films from decades ago that were aimed at adults THEN and thus relying on the nostalgia of that audience to drive them - but the bulk of the audience doesn't remember them from the first time round. I was the sort of little weirdo (with liberal parents ) who WAS watching Robocop and Terminator when I was 9 or 10 but most people even my age (mid 30's) didn't have these movies as part of their childhood and definitely not younger. 18-35 is just too much of a key demographic for the box office.

As a contrast - Jurassic Park sequels have worked because A) The core audience for the original in the 90's were kids, not adults like for Terminator or RoboCop and B) They started with a "loose enough" sequel to draw in a new young audience that doesn't really need to know the original. They teased nostalgia in the 2nd on and are going all out with it in the 3rd part, because then they have the old AND new audience locked in.

Half of a new audience walking into a RoboCop direct sequel is going to have no idea what's going on.