Robocop courtesy Orion Pictures Corporation
Just as Warner Bros Batman franchise is flying high once again MGM is hoping to reboot one of its action tentplolesAccording to Variety the studio is fast-tracking a new Robocop picture for a 2010 release with Darren Aaronofsky Requiem for a Dream The Fountain directing a script written by David Self The original film which debuted in 1987 and spawned two sequels focused on a fatally wounded cop who returns to the force in cyborg formThe studio is mum on the details but some have suggested the new film will take a noir approach What do you think Are your excited for more part man part machine all cop action Adam Bryant
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Paul McCrane (inset) directed James Woods in "A Long Goodbye."
Tonight on ER (10 pm/ET on NBC), two-time Oscar nominee James Woods guest-stars in one of those "very special" episodes that promises to get your tears flowing — stat! — and to possibly prove to be Emmy bait come September. Directing the outing was ER alum Paul McCrane, aka the late Dr. Robert Romano, whom TVGuide.com spoke with about handling heavy hitters such as Woods and about his many grisly on-screen demises.
TVGuide.com: This is your sixth time behind the cameras for ER. What's the first thing you look for when you're handed the shooting script? Do you check to see if there are any big, complicated helicopter crashes in it?Paul McCrane:
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Question: Was there a movie called Robo-Jocks?I think it came out in the late '80s, but no one seems to remember this flick. Do you?
Answer: You're looking for Stuart Gordon's futuristic Robot Jox (1990), which takes place 50 years after the human race was nearly wiped out by nuclear war. Now the world's nations avoid war by settling conflicts one on one: Two warriors climb inside giant robot armor and duke it out in a public arena. When I interviewed Gordon some years ago, he told me that the film's title "started out as RoboJox; in fact, I always like to say that the 't' in Robot Jox is silent. We were threatened by Orion over the title because of Robocop [1987]. They claimed we were interfering with their ability to do business,
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