- ROBOCOP
With this new Robocop remake yet to begin filming, what we
hearing about the film doesn’t seem like it will be that great after all.
Recently, HitFix’s Drew McWheeny got his hands on a copy of
the script andhe wasn’t to polite about it, and last week we learned that talks
with Hugh Laurie to play the film’s villain broke down.
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| Jose Padilha |
The most recent report that we getting, via Collider, is
that Director Jose Padilha is having a tough time on getting his ideas across,
as the studios are turning down the majority of his ideas.
The quotes actually come not from Padilha, but from his good
friend Fernando Meirelles (City of God).
Here’s what he had to say to Cinemacom Rapadura (via ScreenCrush):
“I talked to José Padilha for a week by phone. He will begin
filming Robocop. He is saying that it is the worst experience. For every 10
ideas he has, 9 are cut. Whatever he wants, he has to fight… ‘This is hell
here,’ he told me. ‘The film will be good, but I never suffered so much and do
not want to do it again.’ He is bitter, but it’s a fighter.”
This is Padilha’s first major feature film (he previously
directed Elite Squad), so obviously the studio wants to keep a close eye on
him. But, when a studio gets involved in this sort of capacity, the film we get
as a result is never good, and the director will get the abuse for the films
failure, even though it really wasn’t his fault. Lets just hope this turns out
good!
.Joel Kinnaman is set as the lead, with Gary Oldman, Samuel
L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jay Baruchel, Jennifer Ehle and Michael K. Williams
rounding out the supporting cast..
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