Among all the gritty action movies of the 1980s that featured big men with big muscles, a new hero emerged in 1987 to take the world by storm. Part man, part machine, and all cop, he was the saving ...
It doesn’t feature iPhones, Twitter or an Internet, and yet Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop remains perhaps the most prescient sci-fi effort of the past thirty years — a work from 1987 whose continuing ...
Neill Blomkamp has been linked to a number of in-development projects with renowned sci-fi film franchises over the years, including Aliens, Halo, and RoboCop. Blomkamp addressed the latter in a new ...
Justin Klawans is a freelance News Writer at Collider, covering film and television news. He is currently a Staff Writer at The Week covering U.S. news, global news and general assignment work, mostly ...
While the Robocopfranchise has faltered since the first beloved movie, Upgradeprovided the perfect chance for a remake. Robocop was released in 1987 and followed a hero cop, Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) ...
The original 1987 “RoboCop,” Dutch director Paul Verhoeven’s first Hollywood film, isn’t so much a movie to revere as a bit of brutalism to behold. It had a grim comic vibe, satirizing the savagery of ...
I don’t think anyone was exactly clamoring for a remake of the surprise hit of 1987, “RoboCop.” But given the ways of Hollywood these days, a remake was probably inevitable. And as bad ideas go, we’re ...
The “Robocop” reboot series has assembled quite the crew. The Amazon MGM Studios production now has James Wan attached to executive produce alongside showrunner/writer/EP Peter Ocko, TheWrap has ...
1987’s RoboCop director Paul Verhoeven gives his brutally honest take on Sony‘s 2014 remake. “The problem there, I felt, was that he was really aware that he lost all his legs and arms. He knows it ...