Robocop wasn't supposed to be a documentary

[jmowreader]

So far Rick Snyder hasn't managed to get a cop killed and transplant his brain into a robot, but other than that the privatization theme is coming true.

I wonder when they're going to start building Delta City...

[TheMastersNemesis]

1. You Post Just What I Have Been Thinking For Years. The GOP Wants A Robocop Country.

The movie was actually a prediction. Even Batman was a prediction as the GOP makes every city a Gotham City. Dark and dank and ridden by poverty and crime.

[phantom power]

2. lol, beat me to it

[Bjorn Against]

3. That movie is well worth another watch

I never realized how subversive that movie was when I was younger, watching it again and seeing the anti-corporate it was made me see the movie in a whole new way. Hopefully next here's reboot will retain those subversive themes.

[kentauros]

5. I seriously doubt it.

Paul Verhoeven is an artist. Hollywood doesn't really support directors with a vision, unless it's a vision of mega-millions.

Here are the director and writing credits for the 2014 rebuild of Robocop, and then the same for the original:

RoboCop (2014)
Director: José Padilha

Writing credits
Characters:
Michael Miner, Edward Neumeier
Screenplay:
Nick Schenk, David Self, James Vanderbilt, Joshua Zetumer


RoboCop (1987)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writers: Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner

I see Micheal Miner is back as one of the writers, but not for the screenplay.

From the IMDb trvia page:

Edward Neumeier came up with the idea for RoboCop after he had helped out on the set of Blade Runner, which was about cops hunting robots that looked like humans in the future. Intrigued, Neumeier turned the scenario around into a future where a cop looking like a robot would be hunting human criminals.

The screenplay had been offered (and been rejected by) virtually every big director in Hollywood before Paul Verhoeven got hold of it. He threw it away after reading the first pages, convinced it was just a dumb action movie. However, his wife read it all the way through and convinced him that the story was layered with many satirical and allegorical elements, after which Verhoeven finally decided to direct the film.

[kentauros]

4. Nukem.

Get them before they get you.
(Another quality home game from Butler Brothers.)

"I say good business is where you find it."


Of course, it's interesting that Old Detroit looks more like Dallas than Detroit (since it was filmed there.)

[jmowreader]

6. Remember the businesses OCP was in?

Hospitals and prisons, and they were a huge defense contractor.

Most everyone I knew wanted a Cobra Assault Cannon - the "state-of-the-art bang-bang."

[kentauros]

7. Yes, they had their fingers in everything.

Wasn't the ED-209 also military-grade hardware? Too bad it was stopped by stairs!