It seems MGM is completely starting over in their quest to remake Robocop, after a Darren Aronofsky led effort foundered in the wake of the studio’s financial woes. It’s been announced that the company is hiring Joshua Zetumer to script the reboot of the 1987 science fiction film about a cop brought back from death and drafted to become a remorseless and ruthless cyborg cop. That plan is subverted when suppressed memories of his past life come back to haunt him.
MGM recently hired Brazilian director Jose Padilha, helmer of the cop franchise Elite Squad and the documentary Bus 174, to direct the Robocop reinvention. Jose Padilha and Joshua Zetumer will collaborate closely on the new version.
Joshua Zetumer recently wrote the script for The Infiltrator, a spy thriller script that was picked up by Warner Bros as a potential starring vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio. He also wrote drafts of Dune when Peter Berg was going to direct that remake at Paramount, and he scripted a fourth installment of The Bourne Identity before Universal instead developed a spinoff.