- ROBOCOP
Joel Kinnaman could be RoboCop |
Actor Joel Kinnaman, best known for his starring role in
AMC's The Killing, has just been tapped by MGM to play the title character in
Jose Padilha's upcoming reboot of RoboCop.
Although nothing is official just yet, Deadline reports an
offer has been made. Kinnaman, whose performance in Safe House can be seen now
in theaters alongside Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, is the second actor
to be offered a high profile role at MGM this week. Dwayne Johnson is also in
early talks to join Brett Ratner's Hercules.
"I have my take on it," Padilha told
ComingSoon.net late last year, "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?"
Eric Newman and Marc Abraham of Strike Entertainment are set
to produce the film. Josh Zetumer has penned the screenplay.
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