ELITE SQUAD and ELITE SQUAD: THE EMEMY WITHIN helmer Jose Padilha has been giving details on how he will approach his next feature, the rebooted ROBOCOP franchise. Fans familiar with his previous films will know he is a great choice to tackle Paul Verhoeven’s iconic Detroit deliverer of justice, with police corruption and gritty low level politics embedded throughout his features.
The director, known for his documentary background that he brought into his feature films, has given a taster on what his ROBOCOP approach will be:-
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!
I have my take on it, and I can tell you this: 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?Listen, they gave me the job, I’m going to do it my way, so yeah, you’re going to see myself in there. For bad or for good, I’m going to shoot it the way I shoot it. We need an American RoboCop, man. RoboCop is an American guy, his name is Alex Murphy.
Source: Edward Douglas, Comingsoon.net
