"Dead or alive, you're coming with me." So are the words of Alex Murphy, this time played by Joel Kinnaman and not Peter Weller, in next year's remake of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 sci-fi satire. OmniCorp and ED-209 obviously make an appearance in RoboCop, with Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman and Abbie Cornish (of last year's Seven Psychopaths) rounding out a notable cast for the February 2014 film. However, this incarnation of RoboCop is rated PG-13—so it remains to be seen if Murphy's transformation into a law-enforcing cyborg (after falling victim to a car bomb) will be as visceral as watching Weller's version being brutally gunned down by Clarence Boddicker and his gang 26 years ago. Whatever, I'll watch this film...as a 7-dollar matinee at the local theater most likely.
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