The First "ROBOCOP" Trailer Is Finally Here!

FINALLY!!!!!! Fans get the first official teaser trailer for next years highly-anticipated sci-fi reboot of the much loved 80's/90's franchise, "ROBOCOP". I have been begging for a first trailer for ages and was so bummed out when fans at this years San Diego Comic-Con got to see the trailer.
The trailer is actually pretty damn amazing to be quite honest. Very cool logo, very cool action, very cool CGI, very cool casting, very cool new RoboCop and all just very cool in general. I loved all 2 mins and 20 odd secs of the trailer. Fans of the original film WILL probably hate it but I'm a fan and I bloody love what I see so fan. In a nut shell, change is good if done right and from what we're seeing so far........THIS CHANGE IS AWESOME!!!
From what we can see in the trailer, it looks like we're going to see a bit more of how Alex Murphy felt when he went from human to machine. Also, it looks like we're going to see a lot more of Alex Murphy - Family Man than just beginning with Murphy heading straight into the Police Station that day and then a few minutes later getting shot down. We're going to see a lot more of the human side to Murphy too. The hand is a good choice to make when designing the suit because it shows that there's not just a head and a brain that's in the suit, there's also lots more human parts to him than just wires, screws and armour. Here's a few more official stills from the film.

I am loving the homage to the original suit in the image above. Its looks like there's going to be a lot of action at first with the updated version of the old suit before turning to the final black version which is under the title of Mark 4. What's interesting about the suits is the visor.......it DOES come down for a sort of combat mode which looks pretty awesome.
Anyway, I'm going to shut up now and just post the link to the trailer and guys, gals, machines, aliens, whatever.......JUST ENJOY!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ukwHdACDw

COMIC-CON: New Official Images From "ROBOCOP" 2014 Reboot Plus Official Logo!

New On-Set Image From "ROBOCOP" 2014 Remake!

This new image has surfaced on the official "ROBOCOP" remake Facebook page. It's being described as "EM-208 (humanoid drones) or version 1 of Robocop". It's supposedly another one of the four armors that will appear in the upcoming highly-anticipated reboot/remake. 

First Look At Gary Oldman & Michael Williams's Characters In "ROBOCOP"

Gary Oldman plays Robert Norton, who is the doctor that resurrects Alex Murphy and makes him into RoboCop. Michael Williams is playing Murphy's partner before he is turned into Robo.

Here's One Of The Other RoboCop Suits From 2014 Reboot!

So above is reportedly one of the other suits that Joel Kinnaman will wear when portraying the new rebooted version of RoboCop in the 2014 film. It's unclear which one this is, if it's the last version or one of the versions leading up to the pure black suit.

On-Set Pics From Robo's Launch Day!

Another New Teaesr Poster For "ROBOCOP"

Here's another teaser poster for the new 2013 "RoboCop" film. I really think that the pic above is part of Robo himself. Like the back of his arm and back. Maybe this IS a glimpse at the FINAL FINAL version of the new suit. This could mean that the suit in the on-set pics is just one of the rumored four versions.

Batman VS RoboCop!

Batman aka Michael Keaton has officially signed on as the evil CEO of OCP, Reymond Sellars in the 2013 reboot of the "RoboCop" franchise.

This was the character that Hugh Laurie was originally rumored to have been cast as. Clive Owen was then rumored to be on the top of MGM's list to take over the role when it was confirmed that Laurie was nowhere near signing on to the 2013 reboot. Director Jose Padilha had this to say about casting Keaton in the role, 

"Michael is the final addition to the amazing cast we have assembled for this film and it is so great to have the last puzzle piece in place. It is thrilling that everything has come together to bring this innovative new vision of RoboCop to life. We’ve got a great script, a great cast, some killer ED-209’s and I can’t wait to get Alex Murphy back on the streets,"

House Isn't In "ROBOCOP" But King Arthur Could Be!

It's been widely confirmed that "House" star Hugh Laurie will not be playing the OCP villain in the new 2013 reboot of "RoboCop". It was said that he was set to play the Dick Jones type character in the Jose Padihla directed film, but it now turns out he was no where near signing for the role. It was just a rumor, but was set up to look real a few months back.
Now it's been reported that Clive Owen is on the top of MGM's list to take over the role. There's been no confirmation, but if this is real, then confirmation will happen soon seeing as the fillm is set to begin filming next month.

Detroit Police Department Gets It's Chief!

"Without A trace" star Marianne Jean-Baptiste is the newest cast member to join the still very growing cast of Jose Padilha's 2013 reboot of 80 & 90's "ROBOCOP" franchise. She has been cast as Karen Dean, the Police Chief of Detroit Police Department, where Alex Murphy aka RoboCop is stationed.

RoboCop To Go Through Four Different Armors In 2013 Reboot?

Drew McWeeny over Hitfix.com is reporting that the new RoboCop will go through 3 armors before getting to the right one, the 4th. The armors will consist of an updated version of the classic 80's armor to highly technical futuristic version, which is where the film is set.
Basically the new Robo has been tagged as a "Transformer" on quite a few movie rant sites. Below also tells us that there's definitely going to be a few more changes to the characters, like Lewis now being a male character, but still Murphy's partner though.
Here's McWeeny's quotes on the new armors and the parts of the script,

In the film, when Murphy is turned into Robocop 1.0, it’s described “a high-tech version of the ’80s suit.” Then they show a focus group scene where criminals laugh at the design. “He looks like a toy from the ’80s!” So they redesign him to look “meaner” as Robocop 2.0, who passes focus group approval. So they not only make sure to include the original design, they also point out it’s dated and stupid.
Hold onto your sides for more hilarious “Robocop” details. They outsource his construction to China.
And we meet the ED-209s in the field in Iran, where they’re used to subdue suicide bombers.
Ahhh… now they just dropped Robocop 3.0 onto an Al Queda training camp to see what he does. “He should be programmed to incapacitate in all scenarios.” “Agreed. Let’s keep him PG-13, Dr. Norton.” No. No. No. No.
By page 54, they are already onto Robocop 4.0, who looks like a “cop on steroids painted metallic blue.” Oh, god… oh dear god… Robocop is a Transformer. He goes from “social mode” to “combat mode” and back. Full transformation.
It’s tough to determine tone on the page, but “satire” seems low on their list of priorities.
Okay… the two “best” lines in the script. First up is at the unveiling ceremony for Robocop in Detroit, from a TV reporter covering it. “I think it’s safe to say that Alex Murphy is now part man, part machine, ALL COP!” Yes, I too remember the original poster, asshat.
Second, after the traumatic first meeting with his father, Alex’s son retreats to the apartment of Lewis, Murphy’s male partner. The scene ends with the action line “David sits, catatonic, looks at the TV — MGM REMAKE TBD.” It means “to be determined.” They haven’t decided which of their other movies to plug with that clip.
Someone shows Pope, head of the OCP project, some mock-ups for Robocop action figures. “Are you kidding? I wouldn’t buy that for a dollar!”
I’ll say this: once the script stops all the winky-winky crap and just starts telling a story, it’s not terrible. But it’s way too late.If you can get past Robocop The Transformer, there are some interesting action beats. And I’m sure Padilha will direct the hell out of it.

In a way, I like the change up. This means that no one can really compare it to the 80's original, because this is totally a different film in every way, shape and form. The setting is in the 2020 something, Lewis is a guy, every other characters names are different, the look and feel will be different, RoboCop himself is going to look dfferent.......I like it!!!

My "Dark Knight Rises" Review!

It's been like two weeks or so since I saw Christopher Nolan's final chapter in the EPIC "Dark Knight" trilogy, which I know consider it as "THE TRILOGY". I saw it on the first day it was released, as I usually do with all BIG films.
Obviously the build up to it was amazing. It looked so EPIC, but a part of me was still asking, "Can Nolan pull this one off after the last film?" and now that I've seen it, I can say that it was a brilliant film, with so much action, breath-taking fight scenes, sad moments, great acting and a well deserved ending to end the trilogy off in an extremely satisfying way, but it wasn't "The Dark Knight". Bane was a good villain to end the three films, but he wasn't thee villain. Heath Ledger's Joker was thee villain of the reboot franchise. Bane was sadistic as fuck, well more than the Joker, but the Joker had something that Bane never, good lines, the shock factor and the scare factor. The Joker was messed up. Bane took down Batman physically whereas the Joker took batman down mentally. You didn't know what was coming next, whereas Bane, you began to know what was coming next, and that is something you don't want. His voice was the best part, like I said, he never had great lines, some were good, but not as cringe worthy as Jokers, but just that voice.......FUCK ME!!!
Story wise, it starts off with "hermit" Bruce Wayne hidden away in his mansion wanting nothing to do with the world. Then he realises that he must rise up and become Batman again because Bane's rolled into town wanting to cause chaos. Batman rises and meets Bane, Batman falls. Batman goes away for a while and learns how to rise again, but this time........stronger! He does and returns to plan his next move on how to take Bane on in round 2. Batman falls slightly again. Batman thinks "FUCK YOU BANE!!!" and comes back for the final round which leads to a triumphant ending. Finally Batman...........well I think I've said too much on that. That's not what the films only about, there are other parts to the film. I'm just saying this so I don't have to type up every bit of detail. You get the just from this. Some sites are doing a full-on spoiler review and telling people not to read it whereas I'm do a short review, without any spoilers at all, which is hard to do with this film. I really can't say much about the story without giving much away. There were times where you did think, "fucking hurry up and get to the point" and I wasn't the only person thinking this, but yes it still was a brilliant film, but it wasn't the best. Now I don't want to give much away if you still haven't seen it yet. You'll know what I mean when I said that it's not "The Dark Knight" but is still really good, I mean Nolan could never do what he did with the last film to this film, it's highly impossible.
At points, the story does drag on which gets really annoying, but then fans are hit with lots of action that make up for the slow parts. And the film is pretty long, like 2 hours and 40 something minutes. Bit more than the last one. It's a good thing and a bad thing. You want to keep seeing more and you wish it never ends, then you're hit with the slow boring parts and then you think the film should've been shorter.
Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne/Batman is trying so hard in this film. He truly is fighting for Gotham in this one, I will give him that. There are times where he just gives up and you think, "Get the fuck up!!!" but yeah, Bale is at his best this time round. The scenes with Bane are the breath-taking moments in the film. That and the "rise again" moments, which some times did drag on though, but they got better. He went through shit in this film. He was put to the test from the minute he met Bane to the end! One more thing, I loved the grey side hair that Bale dawned in the film. The grey really gave Wayne a slightly older look as though he's been Batman for like 20 years.
Anne Hathaway's Selina Kyle/Catwoman was indeed the beez-kneez! People didn't take to well to her at first, me included, but when you first see her, she's fucking amazing. I fell in love with her straight away. There's a certain shot in the film where I think Nolan just wanted to please the fan boys. Not telling you which shot, but you'll know what i mean when you see it. If you have seen it, you'll definitely know what I'm talking about!
There are so much characters to talk about and I don't want to give much away on them. Joseph Gordon Levitt should be in a cop film because he's good at playing a cop for sure, so yeah I ain't saying anymore on him. At times, I thought that there was a bit too many characters. Some had more screen time than others, not naming them and others never had enough, again not naming them. I felt as though it was like a mashed up "Avengers" film, and yes I'll probably get kicked in the balls for saying that, but it's true. All characters in "The Avengers" flowed perfectly and all were on and off screen for a certain amount of time, whereas here, they didn't.
Now let's talk about the lead up to the ending of all comic book movie endings. This has got to be the best ending ever thought of in a comic book ending. I was crying, cheering and gob-smacked all at the same time. Like I said above, it's so satisfying and literally rounds up the three films and ties up all the loose ends. The action throughout the end is just full-on. You are at the edge of your seat from the start of the end scenes to the.......well end shot.
All in all I'd give "The Dark Knight Rises" a whopping 8 out of 10. Nolan and the whole cast and crew have done fans proud with this trilogy. Even though the film wasn't perfect, it sure ended a true farewell to the franchise I just hope the next "Batman" will be as good as these ones. Please don't fuck up Warner!!!

Another Star Joins The "ROBOCOP" Reboot!

"Pride & Prejudice" actress Jennifer Ehle is the latest star to join the still growing cast of the 2013 "RoboCop" reboot. It's still yet unknown what role she has signed onto, but rumors are suggesting that it may be Officer Anne Lewis, Alex Murphy/RoboCops partner.

"Tropic Thunder" Star Has Joined "ROBOCOP" Reboot!

Comedic star Jay Baruchel is the latest actor to join the massively growing cast of the 2013 "RoboCop" reboot. he will be playing the role of "the head of marketing for Omnicorp, the company that is building the police cyborg." But his name is unknown yet though.

Nolans Goodbye Message To His "The Dark Knight" Franchise!

This beautiful farewell message by director Chris Nolan, has been taken from "The Art And Making Of The Dark Knight Trilogy" book,

Alfred. Gordon. Lucius. Bruce . . . Wayne. Names that have come to mean so much to me. Today, I’m three weeks from saying a final good-bye to these characters and their world. It’s my son’s ninth birthday. He was born as the Tumbler was being glued together in my garage from random parts of model kits. Much time, many changes. A shift from sets where some gunplay or a helicopter were extraordinary events to working days where crowds of extras, building demolitions, or mayhem thousands of feet in the air have become familiar.

People ask if we’d always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you had planned on growing up, getting married, having kids. The answer is complicated. When David and I first started cracking open Bruce’s story, we flirted with what might come after, then backed away, not wanting to look too deep into the future. I didn’t want to know everything that Bruce couldn’t; I wanted to live it with him. I told David and Jonah to put everything they knew into each film as we made it. The entire cast and crew put all they had into the first film. Nothing held back. Nothing saved for next time. They built an entire city. Then Christian and Michael and Gary and Morgan and Liam and Cillian started living in it. Christian bit off a big chunk of Bruce Wayne’s life and made it utterly compelling. He took us into a pop icon’s mind and never let us notice for an instant the fanciful nature of Bruce’s methods.

I never thought we’d do a second—how many good sequels are there? Why roll those dice? But once I knew where it would take Bruce, and when I started to see glimpses of the antagonist, it became essential. We re-assembled the team and went back to Gotham. It had changed in three years. Bigger. More real. More modern. And a new force of chaos was coming to the fore. The ultimate scary clown, as brought to terrifying life by Heath. We’d held nothing back, but there were things we hadn’t been able to do the first time out—a Batsuit with a flexible neck, shooting on Imax. And things we’d chickened out on—destroying the Batmobile, burning up the villain’s blood money to show a complete disregard for conventional motivation. We took the supposed security of a sequel as license to throw caution to the wind and headed for the darkest corners of Gotham.

I never thought we’d do a third—are there any great second sequels? But I kept wondering about the end of Bruce’s journey, and once David and I discovered it, I had to see it for myself. We had come back to what we had barely dared whisper about in those first days in my garage. We had been making a trilogy. I called everyone back together for another tour of Gotham. Four years later, it was still there. It even seemed a little cleaner, a little more polished. Wayne Manor had been rebuilt. Familiar faces were back—a little older, a little wiser . . . but not all was as it seemed.

Gotham was rotting away at its foundations. A new evil bubbling up from beneath. Bruce had thought Batman was not needed anymore, but Bruce was wrong, just as I had been wrong. The Batman had to come back. I suppose he always will.

Michael, Morgan, Gary, Cillian, Liam, Heath, Christian . . . Bale. Names that have come to mean so much to me. My time in Gotham, looking after one of the greatest and most enduring figures in pop culture, has been the most challenging and rewarding experience a filmmaker could hope for. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental.

Freddy Krueger Joins "ROBOCOP" 2013 Reboot!

Strange looking actor, Jackie Earl Haley, who played Freddy Krueger in the 2010 "Elm Street" reboot and Rorschach in Zach Snyder's "Watchmen" is the latest actor to be cast in the 2013 reboot of "ROBOCOP". He will be playing the character of Maddox, who will be in charge of equipting Robo with all of his weaponry and military training.
What's funny is that I cast him in my reboot cast a few months back and I cast him as the lead villains hence-man, a kind of Emile type character: http://whatsoninthemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/my-robocop-fan-casting.html

Comic-Con: The Official Synopsis For "ROBOCOP" Is Revealed!

The first official synopsis for the upcoming 2013 reboot of "ROBOCOP" is here,

"In RoboCop, the year is 2029 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Their drones are winning American wars around the globe and now they want to bring this technology to the home front. Alex Murphy is a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit. After he is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp utilizes their remarkable science of robotics to save Alex's life. He returns to the streets of his beloved city with amazing new abilities, but with issues a regular man has never had to face before.

The Dark Knights Triumphant Journey Trailer!

A trailer of Nolan's "Batman" trailer has been released featuring footage from 2005's "Batman Begins", 2008's "The Dark Knight" and this summer's "The Dark Knight Rises". The trailer is very good. It's not as good as the one shown at the MTV Movie Awards, but I can't seem to find that one. That was a very emotional video. Batman has been through some heavy shit in this amazing trilogy. No other Batman will go through what Bale's Batman has went through. Now I haven't seen the last one yet, but look at what he's going up against. He's fucked!!!
Here's the link to the official released trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCjhLVTqctQ
And here's the link to a fan-made one, which is a true journey video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xvQL0XtjNE
OH YEAH, and I just found this poster above online on some fan-made site. It's fucking EPIC ain't it?! I just had to use it for this post!!!

The Net Marketing For "ROBOCOP" Begins!

The studio behind the latest Hollywood reboot, "ROBOCOP" have set up a very realistic website for Omni Consumer Products (OCP), which now is under a new title in this new film. OCP is now being called Omni-Corp in the new "ROBOCOP" rebooted universe. It's a slicker, smarter title than just plain old OCP. 

www.omnicorp.com gives fans a first look at the new ED-209 and this flying jet like ship pictured above. We also get a teaser look at the new RoboCop, but it's not great, it's just quick glimpses at the armor.
In a short video about Omni-Corps robotic technology, they refer to RoboCop as simply the RC-200......love the whole new hi-tech name for him. We're obviously not seeing him till later on in the marketing. The site is very well put together. It really looks like Omni-Corp is a real company.  

Comic-Con: New Teaser Poster For "ROBOCOP"