Bombshell: Neumeier Says Original RoboCop Getting Sequel!

This news was just too big to post in the news blowout article for Tuesday.  It seems that taking old movies and giving them sequels is a growing trend (thanks, Blade Runner).  The Predator is another definite one, even if the screenplay is horrific for the wrong reasons.  Alien3 V2.0 is another one that has sort of came back onto the radar.

Well, how about fucking RoboCop!

In a new interview with Zeitgeist Entertainment Magazine Ed Neumeier, who wrote the original RoboCop with Michael Miner, says he’s working on a sequel to the 1987 version of the film. Neumeier said the film is in development at MGM, and while he noted, “We’re not supposed to say too much,” the screenwriter was able to part with some general details.

“There’s been a bunch of other RoboCop movies and there was recently a remake and I would say this would be kind of going back to the old RoboCop we all love and starting there and going forward. So it’s a continuation really of the first movie. In my mind. So it’s a little bit more of the old school thing.”

This will actually be the fourth attempt at a direct sequel to the original movie (unless Prime Directives mentioned the 2nd or 3rd movies, or TV series).  There was RoboCop 2, then RoboCop: Corporate Wars, the latter which was written by co-written by Ed Neumeier, the pilot episode for the TV series.