We’ve got a second trailer for next year’s RoboCop remake, and just like the first, it’s pointing to a philosophically inclined big-budget action movie: there’s a lot of talk about conscience, corporatism, and free will, then a lot of gunfights, then a lot of explosions. Gary Oldman is a doctor, Michael Keaton is an impossibly cynical executive, and Samuel L. Jackson is a pro-RoboCop propaganda master. And if this trailer is any indication, the filmmakers love showing off the redesigned RoboCop suit.
The second ‘RoboCop’ remake trailer shows off Samuel L. Jackson and killer robots
is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011.
The trailer plays its action straight, excising the over-the-top satirical violence found in the original Robocop, and it doesn’t have the original’s backdrop of Reaganism and 1980s inner-city violence — it’s apparently drawn more from the sanitized, abstract idea of things like drone warfare. Whatever it is, we’ll have to wait until February 2014 to find out.
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