Ever since MGM emerged from its pre-packaged banruptcy, there’s been talk of the company pushing their back catalogue harder and finding what franchises they might be able to reboot. Prime among those is Robocop, which was already in development before the studio’s financial troubles, got put on hold, but has now become a priority for MGM once more.
Darren Aronofsky has been behind the attempt to remake Robocop, but he left the project some time ago and is now busy preparing for The Wolverine. As a result, Deadline reports MGM is in negotiations with Brazilian director José Padilha, best known for the drug thriller Elite Squad and the fascinating documentary Bus 174, to helm their RoboCop reboot.
Robocop first hit theaters in 1987, starring Peter Weller as Alex J. Murphy, a Detroit cop who survives a near-death experience and becomes a new half-man, half-robot crime fighter known as Robocop. The action-adventure spawned two sequels with Robocop 2 in 1990 and RoboCop 3 in 1993.