One of the most controversial shows on television returns this Sunday, April 1^st as The Killing begins airing its second season on AMC. The series, which is based on the Danish show Forbrydelsen, follows Detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and her possibly shady partner Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) as they try to solve the mystery of who killed local Seattle teenager Rosie Larsen. The show also revolves around prime suspect and Mayoral candidate Darren Richmond (Billy Campbell), as well as Rosie’s parents (Brent Sexton and Michelle Forbes) who are dealing with the aftermath of their daughter’s death.

The Killing was a bona fide hit last season for AMC, which is also home to such popular series as Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. But The Killing made national news last year when fans of the series were in an uproar after the show’s finale aired. The episode had been advertised as giving final answers to the show’s main mystery, however all it did was offer new questions and no clues to who actually killed Rosie Larsen. Fans of the series took to Twitter in an angry fever relieving their pain by bashing the show’s failure to follow through with answers as promised. While many fans swore to never watch the series again, I have a feeling they will all be returning Sunday night for the second season in hopes that some answers may finally come to light. But don’t expect closure to the show’s main mystery Sunday night as producers have said publicly that Rosie’s killer won’t be revealed until the end of this season.

Earlier this week, along with several other members of the press, I had a chance to sit down with Mireille Enos, Joel Kinnaman, and Billy Campbell to discuss season two of The Killing. The actors talked about the series; it’s controversial season one finale, their surprise at the fan’s outcry, Linden’s engagement, Holder’s true intensions, Richmond’s ultimate fate, how the show’s success has affected the actor’s careers, and just who did kill Rosie Larsen?

After spending some time foraging in the wilds of financial insolvency, MGM is powering ahead with several remakes based upon familiar properties.  Foremost among the upcoming remakes is RoboCop, a new take on director Paul Verhoeven's brilliant 1987 satire masquerading as a cartoonishly brutal action movie.  Joel Kinnaman is set to play the title character, a Detroit cop named Alex Murphy who is turned into a technological commodity after being brutally murdered.

MGM is moving ahead with the long in-development remake of RoboCop, director Paul Verhoeven's audaciously funny, gleefully violent, unstoppably smart 1987 satire.  After emerging from insolvency, MGM hired Jose Padilha to direct a new take on the tale of rampant consumerism and dehumanization, leading to the obvious question of just who would play the new Alex Murphy, an honest cop whose brutal murder leads him to become a robotic husk of a man.  The answer, it seems, might just be Joel Kinnaman, who broke out big with his role on The Killing.

Casting-wise, JJ Abrams already did the heaviest lifting involved in rebooting Star Trek several years back when he rounded up a bunch of young actors who could capably play the familiar crew of the original USS Enterprise.  No mean feat, finding someone with the raw sexual magnetism and peerless line delivery of a William Shatner.  With the sequel, which we're just referring to as Star Trek 2, deep in preproduction before filming starts early next year, Abrams is casting up new roles, though.  The latest actor to sign on for a space-based adventure in the universe created by Gene Roddenberry is none other than Peter Weller.

As a director, the Dutch-born Paul Verhoeven has a wonderfully subversive perversity, one that delivers a whole lot of entertainment while audaciously upending social, political, and sexual mores with glee.  Which makes it odd that two of his biggest movies, Total Recall and RoboCop, have big-budget remakes on the way, neither of which involve the auteur in the slightest.  Those two gems are from 1990 and 1987, respectively, but it looks like Sony Pictures and producer Neal Moritz are taking aim at Verhoeven's 1997's fascist satire Starship Troopers, having hired a pair of familiar screenwriters to tackle a remake that we can only assume is woefully misconceived.

RoboCop, director Paul Verhoeven's 1987 action/science-fiction/satire is brilliant, an audacious and intelligent skewering of dehumanizing American consumer culture that is probably even more relevant now, 24 years later, than it was at the time of its release.  As part of its post-bankruptcy strategy, MGM is moving ahead with a RoboCop remake that has been developing, in several different iterations, for years now.  While nobody can match Verhoeven's lunacy, the studio made an inspired choice with Jose Padilha, the Brazilian director who would make his American debut with the tale of Alex Murphy.  While it's still very early, the director has shared some crucial insight on his approach to RoboCop, and it sounds different enough to stand up as its own cinematic entity.

Jose Padilha, the director responsible for the hugely popular Elite Squad films in his native Brazil, signed on to MGM's RoboCop remake back in March.  Since then, he and screenwriter Josh Zetumer have been collaborating away on a new screenplay that abandons any and all development done under previous would-be remake helmer Darren Aronofsky.  The big question is whether or not the duo will be able to create a worthy successor to Paul Verhoeven's wickedly satirical and staggeringly intelligent 1987 original, but of course the more frequently asked question is , "Who will play RoboCop?"  Padilha himself set off an internet hyperbole-storm on Friday when he mentioned being a fan of Michael Fassbender, but he's now distancing himself from the casting question, while focusing on the more pertinent stuff.

Since emerging from the wilderness of financial insolvency, MGM has pursued a strategy of pillaging its library of identifiable properties to remake.  Among the reboots in development are Carrie, Mr. Mom, Poltergeist, Jose Padhilla's Robocop, and of course the already-completed Red Dawn remake starring Chris Hemsworth, Adrianne Palicki, and Josh Hutcherson.  Though Dawn has yet to see release, the studio is adding another re-do to the ever-growing pile, as Seth Gordon has been hired to direct a remake of the computer-paranoia thriller WarGames.

So MGM is going ahead with their hopeful franchise reboot, a remake of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 action satire RoboCop, which starred Peter Weller as the titular cybernetic law enforcer.  The studio hired Jose Padilha, a director whose Elite Squad films were massively popular in his native Brazil, to direct the remake, and now they've coupled him with a writer by the name of Josh Zetumer.

By now, you've probably heard that Detroit is getting a statue to commemorate its greatest fictitious hero, the cybernetic crime stopper RoboCop.  The whole thing started when Detroit mayor David Bing tweeted that the city had no plans to erect any sort of monument to the good cop turned-super cop, and the internet disagreed with Mayor Bing.  A subsequent crowd-sourced funding of the statue raised $50,000 in no time at all, and all corners of the internet reveled in the surreal beauty of a RoboCop statue becoming real.  Now Peter Weller, the actor who portrayed Alex Murphy in the first two films, is in a video from Funny Or Die, sharing his thoughts on his visage becoming a statue.  Check it out: