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 Writer/producer
Ed Neumeier has offered an update on the status of Robocop Returns, a direct
sequel to the original film. The 1987 film followed a cop who, after almost
dying, is used as an experiment to create a new type of cop – half man, half
machine. The idea was for him to fight crime without emotions but for some
reason he remembers his previous life and becomes more that what he was supposed
to be. District 9’s Neill Blomkamp is set to direct the new project from a
script which Justin Rhodes was re-writing from an old script written by the
first film’s writers Neumeier and Michael Miner. Neumeier says the first round
of script revisions are done and is currently getting another pass: “I am a
producer at the moment. We talked about it a couple of years back and I reminded
MGM that we had written a very rough sequel back in 1988 which then was stopped
by the writer’s strike, the same year. And they looked at it and they said ‘oh,
good!’, so we did some more work on that and then Blomkamp found out about it
and he said ‘I have always wanted to do this, this is my dream project’ and MGM
was very pleased to get into business with him. Blomkamp and Justin Rhodes have
done a pass on the script we were writing on and they’re doing another one.” The
new version of the script has changes from the 1988 version. Peter Weller will
be a part of the film but he will not be playing Murphy this time around. |
