Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 7:24PM New 'RoboCop' Suit is Revealed Once and For All?
The RoboCop remake has probably fielded more media scrutiny recently than the Total Recall remake, despite the fact production just started earlier today. Why is that? Because fake pictures of the new armor were released earlier this summer? The script allegedly leaked online and was awful beyond words? Was it Jose Padilha complaining to Spanish media about lack of creative control? It's hard to say...
Put all previous issues aside for a moment, and realize the first official look at the new RoboCop is finally upon us. Comin Soon was able to capture set photos from Toronto, Canada of star Joel Kinnaman in the cyborg cop suit, and it ditches the traditional silver in favor of a sleak black suit like that of a superhero.
Check it out. Do you like what you see?
While it's obviously a clear improvement over the original, it's hardly a home run. I guess because we've see so many similar looking suits in other films. At least, we can see Kinnaman's face this time lending some validity to the images.
I for one still have high hopes for this movie, especially since Paul Verhoveven's RoboCop was so corny in parts. The supporting cast of Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael K. Williams are another reason for optimism amid the bad press.
We hope to show you more from the set of RoboCop soon. The goal is to have the film ready for theatrical release by August 9, 2013.
Reader Comments (5)
I think they're going more for an 'Iron Man'-type thing, it's just the guy in the "suit" is DEAD. There's maybe more of an idea here than just the 80's movie "robot body with the actor's face stuck in it". The "suit" just activates and enhances the body inside it. So in this way it's more cybernetic. As for how that all connects to the story they're telling this time is another thing. I'm just hoping it's just a little more conceptual as this appearance of the "Robo - cop" suggests.
I hate it! They're going more for the prosthetic vibe (human robo-enhanced), rather than the robotics original viba (robot human enhanced) *facepalm *epicfail
That idea is more in tune with where we are now though, tech-wise. Even in the original it seemed a bit far-fetched, when you thought about it as to why there was still this human "face" still stuck on it. Ultimately you just engaged the story as an allegory and didn't worry about the technical. This new one COULD lean a bit more toward the more current tech concepts but we'll have to see how it fits in the story.
That idea is more in tune with where we are now though, tech-wise. Even in the original it seemed a bit far-fetched, when you thought about it as to why there was still this human "face" still stuck on it. Ultimately you just engaged the story as an allegory and didn't worry about the technical. This new one COULD lean a bit more toward the more current tech concepts but we'll have to see how it fits in the story.
I love it!! it could use a badge lol jk. Actully this is it hink a great perfect way for roboCop as The director was once quooted saying: ""The first thing that I have to say to you is this; forget about the movie ROBOCOP, which is a great movie. Forget about the context in which it was released back in the 80’s and the great asset criticism of the media that it made. Forget about all of that, just the concept of ROBOCOP theoretically… Robocop is not a superhero, Robocop is what happens to a man when you start changing it with technology so he can follow certain purposes and do certain things for corporations or whatever. What happens when technology takes over consciousness and free will?....In forty years we will really be there, we will be able to… There’s going to be robots all around us doing things and they are doing things according to specific software programs designed by specific people with specific goals and criteria, like Robocop is and so it’s a genius concept and I embrace the concept of the film and the project just by the concept alone. Now you are right, the environment nowadays is different than the environment in the 80’s and the way to explore the concept is different and so we are doing something that is original and in its own terms even though we have the same brilliant concept that ROBOCOP has."
—José Padilha, director of RoboCop, about the film." I think that sums it all up. todays tench is sleeker, in a black,white, grey,red, uniform colors, and it really fits our socity's standings well.