WHO’S IN IT?
Joel Kinnaman (The Killing), Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Michael Keaton (Batman), Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction), Abbie Cornish (Limitless), Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), Michael K. Williams (The Wire), Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty), Jay Baruchel (This Is The End), Aimee Garcia (Dexter), John Paul Ruttan (This Means War), Miguel Ferrer (Iron Man 3), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets and Lies), Douglas Urbanski (The Social Network), Zach Grenier (Fight Club)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
José Padilha (Elite Squad), director; Joshua Zetumer (film debut), writer; Marc Abraham (Children of Men), Brad Fischer (Shutter Island) and Eric Newman (Dawn of the Dead), producers; Pedro Bromfman (March of the Living), composer; Lula Carvalho (Elite Squad: The Enemy Within), cinematographer; Peter McNulty (The Master) and Daniel Rezende (City of God), editors
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
In 2028 Detroit, robot technology conglomerate Omnicorp sees its chance to bring its android defence unit to the streets when Alex Murphy (Kinnaman), a loving husband and father as well as hard-working cop, is badly injured in the line of duty. Enlisting scientist Dr. Dennett Norton (Oldman) to oversee the experiment, Omnicorp reconfigures Murphy into a half-man, half-machine who patrols the streets as Robocop…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
Remakes of cult classics are difficult pills to swallow, but it seems as though Robocop v.2 has the right-minded people involved both on and off-camera to give it the right amount of justice to make for a brand-new blockbuster thrill-ride.
