Just last week, a trade piece came out reporting director Darren Aronofsky (“Requiem for a Dream”) had been one of the many directors circling a remake of Paul Verhoven’s “classic” dystopian satire, “Robocop.”
The often amusingly unreliable horror-enthusiast site Bloody Disgusting.com is now reporting that Aronofsky is in final talks on the project and are claiming it’s not a remake, but rather, a sequel.
The logline they report is: Present day Los Angeles, 20 years after the termination of the RoboCop program, the city decides to reinstate the program.
Some are suggesting the project could be a darker, re-boot style sequel in the vein of “The Dark Knight/Batman Begins” and the “Terminator Salvation” film with Christian Bale. We’re just hoping this doesn’t mean the end of Aronofsky movies that look like Yes album covers meant to be consumed on psychedelics (see “The Fountain”). Whether it’s true is anyone’s guess, BloodyD doesn’t have the greatest track record, but they do reassure us with their justification of covering the news in the first place. “[The original was] pretty damn bloody, and it’s pretty damn disgusting… good enough for [us].” Indeed.
