RoboCop Returns

Name: RoboCop Returns
Director: Neill Blomkamp,Abe Forsythe
Released: T00:00:00Z

Set in crime-ridden Detroit.Centers around the cyborg as he is forced to come back to the city and save it from the brink of anarchy.

'Robocop Returns' Lands 'Little Monsters' Director Abe Forsythe (Exclusive)

The project is being developed as a direct sequel to the original 1987 movie released by Orion.

Neill Blomkamp Updates Status Of 'RoboCop Returns' & Says Sequel Will Use The Classic Design Of The Character

Neill Blomkamp is quite obviously a big-time genre film fan. Not only is that apparent in his original work, which features influences galore. However, he was also famously attached to direct “Alien 5,” which would have gone back to the original’s roots for a new story. And after that fell apart, Blomkamp has now found …

Neill Blomkamp's new RoboCop will be using the clunky old suit, not another sleek update

The original RoboCop costume, with its black bodysuit and shiny grey armor, is iconic. It’s cold and emotionless, much like Peter Weller’s RoboCop himself and the vicious powers that birthed him, and it definitely looks well-suited to murdering criminals. For the 2014 remake, though, director José Padilha put star Joel Kinnaman in a sleek, all-black RoboCop suit that made him look like what an evil version of Apple would make if it were creating a robot cop. It was cool, but it was almost too cool. Nobody wants to actually think a cop looks badass. Luckily, the next attempt to revive the RoboCop series, which is coming from Chappie’s Neill Blomkamp, will be going back to the original design.