MGM's "RoboCop" remake has run into trouble before production has even started.
Drew McWheeny who got the script of the movie, gave a scathing review, according to movie site Collider. Later actor High Laurie, who was supposed to play the main bad guy in the film, did not take up the project.
Collider reports the movie's director, Jose Padilha, is having a tough time getting his views across. MGM is turning down every idea he had.
"I talked to José Padilha for a week by phone. He will begin filming 'Robocop'," Padilha's good friend and director of "City of God" Fernando Meirelles told ScreenCrush. "He is saying that it is the worst experience. For every 10 ideas he has, 9 are cut. Whatever he wants, he has to fight... 'This is hell here,' he told me. 'The film will be good, but I never suffered so much and do not want to do it again.' He is bitter, but it's a fighter."
"RoboCop" remake will be Padilha's first major feature film; he had directed the Portugese movie "The Elite Squad," which won him a Golden Bear in 2008. MGM seems to have a close watch in the matters.
The film has an amazing cast featuring Joel Kinnaman as the lead, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jay Baruchel, Jennifer Ehle, and Michael K. Williams.
"RoboCop" is a popular film franchise that began in 1987 and went until 1990s. Robocop is a robotic law enforcer who battles crime infested Detroit. There were three instalments of RoboCop franchise.
