RoboCop has added another major player to its steadily expanding cast list, with Samuel L. Jackson the latest A-list name to attach himself to the project.
According to Heat Vision, Jackson is set to play a character named Pat Novak, a charismatic TV mogul who carries a lot of sway in the universe being created by director Jose Padilha.
Jackson joins a cast that includes The Killing's Joel Kinnaman as RoboCop himself, as well as Gary Oldman as the scientist responsible for the transforming plain old Alex Murphy into a mechanised law enforcer.
Filming on the project is expected to begin in Toronto in September, with MGM hoping to have the film ready in time for a release date somewhere around summer 2013.
Kinnaman himself recently described the film as telling, "a new story within the old one," and the introduction of new characters for Jackson and Oldman would seem to support that theory. Colour us intrigued...
Source: Heat Vision
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StevePotter
Jun 7th 2012, 14:53
Color me sold!
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nacho316
Jun 7th 2012, 15:20
Cool would have been better if he was playing sgt reed the smart mouthed takes no b******t cop from the first Robocop flicks ;)
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Hadouken76
Jun 7th 2012, 16:51
The original Robocop was made in a time when grown up films were made for grown ups and the violence and gore was acceptable for that age group. Nowadays, John Mclane can't even say "M*****F*****" without being edited out by a bunch demograph - led prozzie-beating primates who cater who the ain't*t-cool-I-can't-see-my-legs-for-all-the-doughnuts-I-put-away crowd
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Indianabones
Jun 8th 2012, 5:03
Hadouken76 you are out of order, Biscuits is the reason i can't see my legs!
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Flynners
Jun 8th 2012, 19:19
I'm more excited about Kinnaman than Jackson. His script choices are not, shall we say consistent, And he usually phones it in these days like all the over 60's. With the exception of Nicholson and a few others.
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