Oldman Will Create Padilha's ROBOCOP

Todd Brown, Founder and Editor

Another major piece has just fallen into place for the Jose Padilha directed remake of Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop. We already knew that The Killing star Joel Kinnaman would play the robotically enhanced crime fighter and now we know that Gary Oldman will build him.

Oldman will play a character called Norton, the science who rebuilds downed police officer Alex Murphy into the cybernetic RoboCop.

Scheduled to shoot in September, the aim is a summer 2013 release.

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Peter Martin

Hehe, the original featured "Bob Morton," played by Miguel Ferrer, as the "creator" of RoboCop, or at least as the nasty corporate exec who pushed the program through after the ED-209 disaster. So a conscience-stricken Oldman should at least bring a slightly different flavor to the remake, though after watching the original again recently, my eyebrows are still raised in skepticism.

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