Next month sees the return of legendary metallic police officer ‘RoboCop’ in José Padilha’s reboot. A heap of new banners and interesting artwork has been posted up on the official ‘RoboCop’ Facebook page to celebrate the impending release. ‘The Killing’ star Joel Kinnaman leads the sure to be watered down PG-13 remake from the ‘Elite Squad’ director. Gary Oldman (‘The Dark Knight Rises’), Michael Keaton (‘Beetlejuice’), Samuel L. Jackson (‘The Avengers’), Jackie Earle Haley (‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’), Jay Baruchel (‘The End of the World’), Abbie Cornish (‘Sucker Punch’), Michael Kenneth Williams (‘Boardwalk Empire’), Jennifer Ehle (‘Zero Dark Thirty’), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (‘The Cell’) and Aimee Garcia (‘Dexter’) also star. Check out the new art below.
“In RoboCop the year is 2029, and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the centre of robot technology. Their drones are winning American wars around the globe, and now they want to bring this technology to the home front. Alex Murphy is a loving husband, father, and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit. After he is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp utilizes its remarkable science of robotics to save Alex’s life. He returns to the streets of his beloved city with amazing new abilities but with issues a regular man has never had to face before.”
‘RoboCop’ opens in the US and UK on 7 February 2014.
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