Brazilian director Jose Padilha, who will have his highly-anticipated sequel ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN finally opens in U.S. this Friday, has comes forward to share his thought about his version of Paul Verhoeven's much-beloved ROBOCOP (1987). He's hoping to start shooting the highly-anticipated remake early next year and check out his point-of-view right below.
'RoboCop' the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of 'RoboCop' is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'To when do you lose you humanity?' The way it does that is by replacing body parts with machine parts, and that's very smart because guess what? It's going to happen!
I have my take on it. 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?
So what can we expect from Jose Padilha in term of shooting style in ROBOCOP? Will he uses handheld camerawork just like he did in some of his documentary-like movies?
Listen, they gave me the job, I'm going to do it my way, so yeah, you're going to see myself in there. For bad or for good, I'm going to shoot it the way I shoot it.
As for the actor to play Robocop, Padilha has stressed that he is looking for an American actor for the role.
We need an American RoboCop, man. RoboCop is an American guy, his name is Alex Murphy.
Looks like Padilha is heading towards the right direction on the ROBOCOP remake. Let's hope he doesn't screw this up.
