I don't think I heard about the sequel. Can you tell us more about it?

Looks like Neill Blomkamp is directing. He isn't a bad director, but I also don't think he is anywhere close to Paul Verhoeven as far as originality etc. goes. Wonder why they didn't get Verhoeven for the job. Also shame about Basil Poledouris' death years ago. They will have a hard time finding anyone who is capable of making anything even close to the iconic soundtrack he made. Well, at least they can, and hopefully will, recycle the theme music at least.

Jesus, Bloomkamp gets turned away from Alien and runs to another one of his childhood favorites. He hasn't made anything really interesting since District 9 and he refuses to make, or can't find funding for, the sequel that most of his fans want. Chappie was panned and Elysium was heavy-handed populist fantasy. He's able with special effects, but as a director and writer he's middle-of-the-road at best.

Leave Robocop alone. The original worked because Verhoeven has a unique talent for blending extreme violence and satire to ridicule religion and fascism. Bloomkamp has no subtlety whatsoever, nor have I seen anything from him that approaches what Verhoeven can do. He's just piggybacking on a project he loves in the hopes of re-igniting his career. (He's been making little FX shorts lately. Bleh.)

No. Thank. You.

@AlienFanatic said:

Jesus, Bloomkamp gets turned away from Alien and runs to another one of his childhood favorites. He hasn't made anything really interesting since District 9 and he refuses to make, or can't find funding for, the sequel that most of his fans want. Chappie was panned and Elysium was heavy-handed populist fantasy. He's able with special effects, but as a director and writer he's middle-of-the-road at best.

Leave Robocop alone. The original worked because Verhoeven has a unique talent for blending extreme violence and satire to ridicule religion and fascism. Bloomkamp has no subtlety whatsoever, nor have I seen anything from him that approaches what Verhoeven can do. He's just piggybacking on a project he loves in the hopes of re-igniting his career. (He's been making little FX shorts lately. Bleh.)

No. Thank. You.

Good point. Actually I like Blomkamp but he's not a "deep" director plus I adore the Alien & Robocop series. I'm afraid they will lose everything with new installements