Reboots! Reboots! Get ya' reboots here! Hollywood is out of ideas! Gets ya reboots here!
Sigh.
I know that's an overreaction. There are still plenty of original ideas in Hollywood it just seems sometimes like the reboots get the most notoriety. But I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't report the progress on one of the more significant reboots in recent memory--1987's Robocop.
According to "Deadline" director Jose Padilla finally has his new Murphy/Robocop in the guise of actor Joel Kinnaman. Kinnaman is a relative unknown, with his primary claim to fame being on the television show "The Killing." Kinnaman will also make his big screen debut later this year as Lancelot in director Dave Dobkin's Arthur and Lancelot.
Despite the fact that I deem a Robocop reboot unnecessary, if they are going to reboot the franchise they might as well cast a relative unknown. At least in this instance there is no extraneous amount of hype like there would be if say, Hugh Jackman took the role. Any high profile actor probably would have doomed the project to failure, so I applaud the studio for going this route. From an economic standpoint it also keeps the budget down.
The Robocop reboot starts shooting later this year.
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