Paul Verhoeven's 1987 original is still a relevant text, with outrageous satire that still cuts to the heart of how we live, and while you can't really expect anyone to maintain the same audacious tonal balance as Verhoeven, a RoboCop movie should still have more on its mind than just a superheroic robot cop. Hopefully Omnicorp's manufacture of drones is used to some satirical or rhetorical end. Rather than just doing a meaningless "update," this should be commenting on the current U.S. reliance on drones and morally dubious strikes.
Anyways, you're here for the synopsis, and you'll find it below, thanks to Coming Soon:
In "RoboCop," the year is 2029 and multinational
conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Their drones
are winning American wars around the globe and now they want to bring
this technology to the home front. Alex Murphy is a loving husband,
father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and
corruption in Detroit. After he is critically injured in the line of
duty, OmniCorp utilizes their remarkable science of robotics to save
Alex’s life. He returns to the streets of his beloved city with amazing
new abilities, but with issues a regular man has never had to face
before.
Director
José Padilha ("Elite Squad") reimagines the tale of part man, part
machine, all cop starring Joel Kinnaman ("The Killing") as the title
character, Gary Oldman ("The Dark Knight Rises") as the scientist who
creates RoboCop, and Samuel L. Jackson ("The Avengers") as media mogul
Pat Novak.
The new RoboCop doesn't begin production until September for an August 9, 2013 release date. Sony, which is co-financing and marketing the movie alongside producer MGM, is wasting no time getting the word out, though, so once principal photography starts, expect frequent updates.
To tie this back into Comic-Con, a gathering ostensibly about comic books, let's brood on the fact that comic book luminary Frank Miller, the man behind The Dark Knight Returns, received story and co-writing credits on both unfortunate RoboCop sequels.
