MGM continues to rebuild as they've has hired Gran
Torino screenwriter Nick Schenk to work on the screenplay for their
reboot of RoboCop, writes THR. Jose Padilha is still attached to direct
the action sci-fi reboot.
MGM has been developing a new take on
the RoboCop franchise, which launched with the 1987 film directed by
Paul Verhoeven, for years. The studio is hoping for a summer start, but
no one has yet been cast in the title role, although we can confirm that
the studio likes Michael Fassbender for the role.
The original
was about a cop who was near death and was drafted to become a powerful
cyborg cop, until suppressed memories of his past life come back to
haunt him. Peter Weller played the character in the original and the
1990 sequel.
