Robocop
Mining of older material can pay off sometimes, other times it’s going to seem like way too much of a retread but glossied up. With Robocop, it really seems like it’s straddling the line and could fall either way when it comes to the trailer we get here. If anything, the film can be more relevant now than it was before, but if it tries to recreate too much of what came before rather than forging its own path, it loses its own identity. But straying too far will cause the potential built in fan base reject it.
Directed by Jose Padilha and starring Joel Kinnaman, Samuel l. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Gary Oldman, Abbie Cornish, Jay Baruchel, and Jackie Earle Haley, the film is set for a February 7th, 2014 release.
Plot concept: In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years – and it’s meant billions for OmniCorp’s bottom line. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine pursuing justice.