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With Comic-Con going down this week, you can expect more nerdy swag releases like this new viral video and photo set from the Robocop remake. To refresh your memory, that’s the one from MGM, being directed by Elite Squad‘s Jose Padilha, starring Joel Kinnaman, with Hugh Laurie and Samuel Jackson, in which Robocop was at one point rumored to be “a transformer who fights Al-Qaeda,” according to a script review by Hitfix’s Drew McWeeny. Still, I’m cautiously trusting Jose Padilha because Elite Squad 2 kicked my balls in.
Today, via MGM’s Omnicorp viral site, we have an Omnicorp promo video, the new ED-209, and what’s being speculated as an early prototype of the Robocop suit.
It was revealed early on that there were two suits and one was laughed off because it did not look intimating enough. That might be the one that we are seeing below identified at the EM-280. [JoBlo]
I could speculate further, but I’m already all dandruffy and I don’t want to give myself an asthma attack. I know we all have a knee-jerk reaction against remakes, especially with movies that were already pretty good like Robocop, but ED-209 was such a badass character, but didn’t look particularly realistic in the original due to the technological limitations of the era. So at the very least, I’m excited to see what they can do with ED-209 with modern technology. They didn’t put flames on him like Michael Bay probably would have, so that’s a start.
Supposedly, Paul Verhoeven would act out how he wanted ED-209 to move for his stop-motion animators and model makers. I would pay double to see a version of Robocop where ED-209 was actually played by Paul Verhoeven stomping around like a giant robot velociraptor making machine sounds with his mouth. It’s amazing what animators could do back then, even in the days before Andy Serkis.
This is a “XT-908 Aerial Drone,” according to the video below.
Here’s the possible-prototype suit. It’s definitely different than the spy pics (which got pulled) that were going around earlier this year.
I hope the new version is half this graphic. This is just the best scene.
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Stop ripping off Metal Gear Solid and ruining RoboCop at the same time you assholes.
RoboCop was ruined 20 years ago when they made RoboCop 3 and started pumping out cheat made for tv movies.
This thing would have to work REALLY hard to tarnish a legacy that’s already in tatters
Mo-cap Ed-209? Get Mick Jagger in that ping pong ball suit.
Angry budgie is angry.
more like ED- 2069 am I rite? yeah i did get it either. but glad to see wayne enterprises branching out to more military weaponry since his death. Good job Lucius Fox
I see they still haven’t fixed ED-209’s stair compatibility issues
I’ll wait for the ED-209 Jon Varvatos edition.
The exchange at the end of that scene is the icing on the cake.
ED-209 was my favorite movie character when I was a kid. I had the toy that shot caps and made a t-shirt (I actually have made several, even recently).
I was really into the 2nd level bad guys. Destro, Starscream, Beast-Man…
This is possibly a character flaw.
Or you just likely have an evil form of aspergers.
i think its because destro starscream and ed-209 are god damned awesome
I Drew a McWeeny once, got fired from McDonalds.
Calling the Robocop project ‘RC2000’ seems a bit shortsighted, no?
“OMNICORP: The Future Is Yesteryear”
If the visor doesn’t go all the way around and doesn’t show his mouth, i’m calling shenanigans! I’m all for turning the armor black, but the core features that make him ‘human’ should still be there. The mock up or whatever shows none of that, it looks soulless. Are we going to be able to connect with this RoboCop…?
Who brings a Cylon to a water gun fight?