New Robocop Is Moving Forward, Has Found Its Director
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Back in 2014, Hollywood gave Robocop the reboot treatment, and while the end result did okay commercially, it was met with mixed critical reaction. For a while, a sequel for that reboot was in development, but ultimately nothing ever came of that. Cut to this past January, Ed Neumeier, the writer of the original Robocop movie, revealed that a new Robocop movie was in the works, only this one would be a continuation of 1987's Robocop. Now it's been confirmed that this particular project is moving forward, and District 9's Neil Blomkamp will direct it.
According to Deadline, this new Robocop movie will be called Robocop Returns, and along with Neil Blomkamp in the director's chair, Justin Rhodes, who co-wrote Tim Miller's upcoming Terminator movie, will rewrite the script that Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner (who co-wrote the original Robocop with Neumeier) penned years back. Neumeier and Miner are still attached to this new movie as producer and executive producer, respectively. Originally written to be the sequel to director Paul Verhoeven's Robocop, Robocop Returns will see Robocop making his triumphant return to Detroit to fight crime and corruption as the city's fate hangs in the balance due to anarchy being widespread.
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