We’re starting to think that Neill Blomkamp is a humanist.
The District 9 director has announced his next project and once again it will involve humans being at the mercy of robots.
This time, the South African filmmaker will be helming a reboot of the 1987 film RoboCop.
The science-fiction flick directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner.
Neumeier and Miner will return as producers for the reboot which has been entitled RoboCop Returns, while the screenplay will be based on a sequel script the pair wrote years ago and penned by Justin Rhodes who wrote the forthcoming Terminator film.
Blomkamp expressed his excitement over the film, telling Deadline, “The original definitely had a massive effect on me as a kid. I loved it then and it remains a classic in the end of 20th Century sci-fi catalog, with real meaning under the surface. Hopefully, that is something we can get closer to in making of a sequel. That is my goal here.”
The 38-year-old is expected to take a different approach to the film, focusing on the story’s humanity: “What’s so cool about RoboCop is that like good Westerns, sci-fi films and dramas, the human connection is really important to a story well told. What draws me now is someone searching for their lost identity, taken away at the hands of people who are benefiting from it, and seeing his memory jogged by events.”
It’s likely to make more than a dollar.
