Director of the new Robocop, Jose Padilha, has been talking up his project a lot lately, and even went as far to float a starring name or two about - Michael Fassbender being the main one that came up. Now, he's going into story details and just how his film will shape up compared to the Paul Verhoeven original.
"In the first 'RoboCop' when Alex Murphy is shot, gunned down, then you see some hospitals and stuff and then you cut to him as RoboCop. My movie is between those two cuts. How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?" he told shocktillyoudrop.com. He added, "RoboCop' the first movie was fantastic, but even if there was no movie, the concept of 'RoboCop' is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'To when do you lose you humanity?' The way it does that is by replacing body parts with machine parts, and that's very smart because guess what? It's going to happen!"
Ominous, Jose, ominous. Nice to see he has an actual concept and isn't just going down the straight up remake route. He's just released his latest film, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within.
