Producers Confirm Aronofsky, Theme for RoboCop Reboot

Posted by Adam Sweeney (adam@filmschoolrejects.com) on July 29, 2008

We’ve brought back Rambo and Rocky, isn’t it time we bring back the quickest Gerber baby food shooting cop in the West? Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky thinks so.

Producer Brad Fischer and co-producer Mike Medavoy are denying rumors that the film will be a straight-up sequel, claiming that the next film will be a re-imagining similar to Batman Begins.

“None of the early films are going to be canonical, as a matter of fact,” explained Fischer. “I wouldn’t say it’s a direct sequel.” Hmm, what would be an indirect sequel?

Many people are asking why bring back RoboCop 21 years after the classic Paul Verhoeven original, to which Medavoy explained that “the themes explored in the first film, of fading humanity in the face of corporate and commercial omnipresence, have only become more relevant in the intervening 15 years.”

“The themes of machine and technology, for instance, that’s certainly become even more prevalent today in terms of man giving up certain things to his creations and his technology and his reliance to that. It’s pretty provocative stuff,” Medavoy said.

Aronofsky is one of my favorite directors. I, unlike a lot of people, even liked the Fountain and would love to see what themes he could explore within the film. Plus it’d be bad ass to see an upgraded version of Ed-209. Maybe we will end up with, gasp, a good remake!

You can check out the rest of MTV Movie Blog’s interview with Peter Fischer and Mike Medavoy here.

What do you think of the direction of the RoboCop reboot? How do you feel about Darren Aronofsky as the director?

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