Peter Weller Doubts ROBOCOP Reboot Will Be As Good As The Original

yea I think its gonna suck

I hope it doesn't flop

agrees

I don't see the point in re-doing it. Same with Total Recall.

Anyone else see Robocop back in the day first on TV, edited, and then watch the actual movie on DVD/VHS? I was shocked by just how brutal / violent it was - No way the new one is going to top it.

Im with Weller on this for sure...Robocop is my favorite sci fi film of the 80's, love the action, tragedy and satire of the film...

@kurekurcubig - agreed. 100%.

Yea, good luck with the Robocop reboot. As for the Training Day car scenes. funny, lol, but I kinda disagree.

As if the star of such gems as Screamers has any idea what a good movie is; this guy has never met a paycheck he didn't like.

The only way I see this reboot having a chance at even coming close to the original is just to not hold back and make it excessively violent. They need to forget 2 and 3 were ever made and just focus on the elements that made the first one great. Bloody, gritty, ultra violence is the one thing this movie needs. Just let Robo blow someone in half with a submachine gun.

I like that they reboot old stuff,at least new generations can see some old films that had shitty cgi renewed for them,what do you think its gonna be like when we are 60,they will probably more spidermen and avengers n all that stuff and then we will complain about reboots,thats life..lol

You guys know Peter Weller is probably right...right?

Although I hate that their rebooting one of my favorite movies of all time it could be good, but right now I'm still kind of pissed about it. I might change my mind later on though when we see set photos or a teaser.

I was just going to post what kurekurcubic said. Mr. Weller should himself shun all sequels and remakes. In fact no superhero should ever grace the screen in a sequel, retelling or remake again. Time must stop.

The first time I heard Weller I sympathized with his rant. But to me he is now only sounding like the lame old jock who does not want his 1960 high school track record broken. He goes from coffee to coffee shop sitting at the counter loudly saying how kids today are lazy crap compared to him in his day, and that, even if his record is broken, that kid is still not as good as him cause all these young brats have it so easy now.

The original is a classic and Mr. Weller can never be replaced in that regard. I don't have ESP, so I can't say whether the new version will be good or not. But I won't be hating the younger kid for giving it a try.

This interview was absolutely amazing. I had never really noticed that about Training Day, but maybe it's because I assumed we were watching the close-ups from Jake Hoyt's point of view in the car, and...well, he WAS dusted on PCP.

@WellDrawn. Yeah, I was born in 84, so that's exactly how I saw it the first time. Same thing with Predator.

well, DUH!!! of course it's going to suck

Never watched Training Day but I checked out a clip and Wellers right about the scene. Ive seen car scenes look flawed as actors dont look ahead and the car never seems to stop at stop signs but Denzel Washington did the worst fake driving ever.
Denzel W. looks like a guy riding in a car, not a guy driving.
As for Robocops reboot, the cyborg story has been told. Weller, Ronny Cox and Kurtwood Smith as well as other actors made it great. We've had CGI heavy Transformers so Robocop CGI is not going to matter.

hes full of himself in a good way. he knows whats good and whats bad. on the note of the reboot, ide rather they called it a reimagining. You cant restart something that iconic... not really.. Im not sure what they will do but I imagine it will be very different than the original. It would be idiotic to try to do that unless you used the same costume design and made it about 400% cooler, meaningful, and epic.

lol, the original Robocop is fun but not really that great of a film. Maybe it was back in the 80's but I don't really think it'll be too hard to top. Just look at the inspired casting and that alone should reassure you that it'll at least be worth checking the trailer out next year.

great interview.

So its ok to reboot something like Star Trek but not this, why exactly? Well as usual as long as its not something you're particularly fond of nobody minds it being rebooted.

All I'm hearing is a lot of people HOPING that this film isn't better than the original. That's not hard, the original was an entertaining film but hardly an example of film making art and its SFX were ropy as hell. They already have a much more talented cast with Gary Oldman, Sammuel L Jackson and Hugh Laurie involved. Depends if they want to go down the satirical route the first movie did or not, they don't need to. They can take the subject a whole lot more serious and make a damn good scifi drama.

The reality is that the movie was no classic, just a cult favourite and as usual with cult films that status usually means the actual film isn't anything special, just for a small group of fans who grow attached to it for whatever reason. Peter Weller didn't go on to become a huge star or even a household name, nobody in the film did and Nancy Allen was coming to the end of her hey-day when she decided to do the movie. It was a budget movie to make at only $13 million dollars and its box office wasn't spell binding at $53 million so a decent remake stands a good chance of making at least four times as much as well as delivering a quality production.

@Owlman - Joel Kinnaman is playing Robocop, he was the asshole corporate tech thief in last years flop 'The Darkest Hour' and was in the US TV version of 'The Killing'.

If this is PG-13 lame bloodles comic action movie then I hope it flops and flops hard. But if it's Rated-R I will givi it a change. Robocop is R.

THE GUY SAYS WHAT HE FEELS AND ITS 100 PERCENT PASSION..HE WANTS TO GET THAT TENSION OUT BY GETTING VOCAL ABOUT ALL THE MISTAKES..HE KNOWS HIS STUFF

LMAO!!!!! he's funny as hell.

he's speaking STRICTLY from an artist perspective. For the people that don't appreciate film and have not studied the craft, you won't know what he is talking about.

It amazes me how many of you have no idea what a reboot is. The J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie was not a reboot. It's just another movie in the same universe, but on a different timeline. So, no, Peter Weller is not going to be in a reboot and he's not being hypocritical.