Gran Torino screenwriter Nick Schenk was recently hired to pen a new draft of the script for director José Padilha.
At first Joshua Zetumer was hired to write the reboot of the RoboCop franchise that now aims to explore in detail a part of the story that Paul Verhoeven's 1987 classic did not--Alex Murphy's (The Killing star Joel Kinnaman) actual transition from man to machine.
Gary Oldman has been cast as Norton, the scientist who creates Robocop and finds himself torn between the ideals of the machine trying to rediscover its humanity and the callous needs of a corporation. Samuel L. Jackson will play Pat Novak, a charismatic media mogul and a powerful force in the future. Abbie Cornish will play the role of Alex Murphy's wife who thinks she is a widow. Hugh Laurie will play “the cold, sarcastic CEO of Omnicorp, the group behind RoboCop’s creation.”Jennifer Ehle playsa character named Liz Kline which is new to the mythology. Jackie Earle Haley will play Maddox, the man who dispenses the military training to Roboco. Michael Kenneth Williams will play the partner of Murphy who is close with Murphy’s family. Jay Baruchel also stars.
Marc Abraham and Eric Newman will produce the film.
Shooting kicks off in September in Toronto for release on August 9th 2013.
Meantime--Early last week HitFix honcho Drew McWeeny posted review tweets of the film script and the news is not good...
He sums up: "I’ll say this: once the script stops all the winky-winky crap and just starts telling a story, it’s not terrible. But it’s way too late. If you can get past Robocop The Transformer, there are some interesting action beats. And I’m sure Padilla will direct the hell out of it. But overall? Ouch. Ouch. Ohpleasedon’t. Ouch. And a big side order of ouch."
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