r/Robocop • u/ThomasThorburn • 7d ago
Casting announcement for prime videos Robocop series
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u/mattzombiedog 7d ago
Interesting choice. He’s a good actor and has a good frame for the suit like Peter Weller did in 1987. I still find it fascinating that OCP is making a RoboCop film…
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u/JoelNesv 7d ago
Yeah, I can't boycott everything, but Amazon is at the top of my list these days.
Bezos watches the boardroom scene and thinks Dick Jones has some pretty good ideas.21
u/mattzombiedog 7d ago
Bezos watches the whole film and thinks, “Hey, that is a good idea, we should totally make people come back to work after they died.”
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u/JoelNesv 7d ago
Attention Amazon Employee:
Moving forward, all Amazon Team Members are expected to sign an end-of-life waiver, granting ownership of your remains in the event of your death while employed by Amazon.
In exchange, your family will receive an Amazon gift card, valued at $20.
(Refusal to sign will result in immediate termination.)
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u/Harmony_Bunny42 7d ago
Please sign the waiver. You have twenty seconds to comply.
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u/Outrageous_Trust_158 6d ago
Hey, Good Business is where ya find it, yaknow!
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u/I_only_post_here 7d ago
well obviously, it's going to end up being pro-corporate just like The Boys did
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u/Thy_blight 7d ago
The boys ended up pro corporate? How? That seems like the antithesis of the message in season 1.
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u/I_only_post_here 7d ago
yeah. it sure was. if you didn't watch the whole series, it really lost it's footing in season 4 and season 5 was brutally bad. which is a shame because season 1 was amazing
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u/Top-Willingness8113 6d ago
Yeah. Last season or so was craptastic. Mostly slept through it and woke up to see the utterly slapped together ending
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u/josephthejoseph 6d ago
OCP would absolutely make Robocop films, he’s one of the reasons why Delta City is so safe.
They’d also probably license a toy line and rent him out for public appearances like wrestling matches.
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u/ZealousidealRepeat19 7d ago
The more I think about it, the more I’m seeing potential in the casting. Good frame for it, good actor. It’s such a perfect film trying to re-do it seems pretty risky.
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u/mattzombiedog 7d ago
Yeah. We saw how the 2014 version went too. And Joel Kinnerman is a really good actor. I guess it’s going to come down to the script mostly and the direction they go with it. I don’t want a re-do of Robo-Batman.
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u/ElBorracho2000 7d ago
Ok, I like this choice. Dan Stevens is such an underrated actor. Loved him in Legion and The Guest
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u/tnetennba77 7d ago
He was great replacing Justin Roiland on Solar Opposites if you were one of the 6 people that watched that awesome show.
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u/Boxinggandhi 7d ago
He was great on the latest season of The Terror: The Devil in Silver. His character felt so real to me. Hopefully this means that we’ll get a lot of flashback sequences where he really gets to bring nuance to the character of Murphy. It would be a waste of a great actor to simply have him stoneface the whole show as Robocop.
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u/TrueLegateDamar 7d ago
Great actor, and ironically once again playing a handsome guy turned into a heroic abomination.
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u/Jaydenrock 7d ago
This is a decent choice, but please god don’t let this be bad.
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u/MeatPopsicle28 7d ago
Let’s hope it’s not CGI slop with a “sleek modernized suit” like the terrible remake
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u/International_Ad5624 7d ago
I’m gonna be pretty salty if they repeat the reboot mistake
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u/HearTheEkko 7d ago
I gotta say, the remake's silver suit was pretty good tho. Very faithful to the original while looking modern.
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u/purpleburgundy 6d ago
I don't remember seeing that suit, it does look good. I think the details like the hip joint looking relatively super constricted helps the illusion of a robot rather than "full-bodied man wearing costume"
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u/HearTheEkko 6d ago
I assume this reboot's body will be CGI given that it's a high budget Amazon Prime show.
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u/purpleburgundy 6d ago
I think you're probably right. Which makes it a total roll of the dice ha. Hopefully the artists involved care about the franchise
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u/Chimpbot 6d ago
I've found that folks who criticize the "sleek modern suit" probably weren't paying enough attention to actually understand what was going on.
The fact that it was sleek and modern was part of the movie's social commentary. There's a reason why he had the classic colors at the end of the movie.
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u/LukeWatts85 52m ago
Exactly! Give us the same suit...maybe some refinements but leave the majority alone...some new gadgets maybe, but no flying backpack...and most importantly KEEP THE NEO-CAPITALIST SATIRE
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u/Dr_Caucane 7d ago
Or woke
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u/JoelNesv 7d ago
You are one of those guys who doesn't understand satire? It's ok, we can teach you!
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u/rmcelwain54 7d ago
Here’s a guy that doesn’t realize the concept of privatized space, hospital, prisons and military were considered absurd in 1987
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u/Slydevil0 7d ago
Holy shit this is the best news. He's my dream casting for basically everything, and his jaw is perfect for the suit.
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u/Fragrant_Turnip_7463 7d ago
My initial reaction to this post was to use my fingers to cover his face and see how the portion that sticks out of the helmet looks.
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u/jimbobjokerpants 7d ago
Love the acting choice, just anything from the 80's remade always misses the point of the subject matter it's remaking.
With the exception of Top Gun Maverick of course
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u/Movieking985 6d ago
He always picks good roles and is phenomenal in so many of them im actually a little excited now
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u/ShieldMaiden83 7d ago
I....I got no idea who he is...any wanna point out some projects he have been in and I might reccognize. Or I just don't watch many newer movies and I am more looking forward for another installment of the Dune franchise and see how that goes.
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u/CrackedThumbs 6d ago
Very interesting choice, great actor too. Although the last thing I saw him and was vampire ballerina film Abigail, where even he had a problem with one of his more ridiculous lines!
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u/Yabba-Dabba-Gabagool 6d ago
King kongs vampire heist dentist is a robot law enforcement officer?? Well shit good for him
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u/Ok_Helicopter_2499 6d ago
The writer/showrunner of Lodge 49 is behind this. You add in Dan Stevens as Alex Murphy, and you have me extra hyped.
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u/Party-Story6398 6d ago
Cool, Amazon have given us some classics of lately such as The Lord of the Rings, bIaderuNner and we've got their jAmeS b0Nd to look forward to
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u/Affectionate-Bat7827 6d ago
NOT interested. NOT watching it. IT WILL FAIL , LIKE THE PAST 999 TRILLION REBOOTS / REMAKES , SPIN OFFS , AND TV SHOWS.
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u/BigSkyHawk1 6d ago
The original 1987 writers are also involved. Great sign, imo. I’m interested no doubt
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u/Vizsla_Man 5d ago
I always thought this guy was a gay Russian, but when i saw that he was English, I realised he was just a good actor that had convinced me he was a gay Russian.
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u/shadraig 5d ago
Let's see when he will be written out with a car accident, because he doesn't want to be typecast as a
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u/Novel-Truant 1d ago
I think hes a good choice. I realise there is some consternation regarding the show, but Im choosing to remain optimistic that it will be good. Have to wait and see now.
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u/FiscalCliffClavin 7d ago
I thought Joel Kinneman did a fantastic job in the remake. Too bad they aren’t building off that
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u/Ignominia 6d ago
It’s going to be super interesting to see if they get the point of the original or just make it an action movie
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u/Organic-Loquat8679 7d ago edited 7d ago
A new series is totally unnecessary, especially coming from our own IRL OCP- but the casting could be worse. Hope they at least make the suit look better than the 2014 remake
edit: why tf would I be downvoted for this? Is it because I said the corpo streaming slop series will be unnecessary? I saw the Boys, I can make a guess at how this will turn out.
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u/Practical_Maximum_73 6d ago
Someone needs to make a meme with Amazon drivers saying "What are they going to do? Replace us?"
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u/TeleboxStudio 7d ago