Joel Kinnaman will be the next ‘Robocop’

This is still a very early stage project but the rumors have now been confirmed by Deadline, that Joel Kinnaman will be the next Robocop, which will be directed by Jose Padilha.

There isn’t much known about the actual film or plot because rewrites are still being done by Nick Schenk  as we speak. The original script was written by Josh Zetumer, but like most films, changes were needed. It should be interesting to see which route they end up taking with the Robocop story. Will it be a much more violent and darker film or will it follow along the path as the prior films.

Robocop was always a weird franchise to me because it didn’t really fall into a particular category. Its almost a cult film but at the same time it isn’t because it had a huge presence in the late 80’s early 90’s. Padilha might have a challenge on his hands trying to reboot this film and needs to go dark, much like they are doing with the Judge Dredd reboot, Dredd.