‘District 9’ director will helm new ‘RoboCop’
Neill Blomkamp, director of sci-fi hits District 9 , Elysium and Chappie , will helm a new RoboCop film. MGM wants to revive the franchise with the appropriately-titled RoboCop Returns , which will apparently directly follow the 1987 original film -- and ignore the 2014 reboot. Returns will be based on an old spec script that the first film's writers Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner wrote shortly after the original's release. (They're returning to produce and executive produce the new movie.) Due to the 1988 writer's strike, that screenplay wasn't used and the studio brought in a young Frank Miller of comics fame to craft a new one. But the delay also means the next RoboCop will be directed by someone who grew up with the original. "What I connected to as a kid has evolved over time," Blomkamp told Deadline . "At first, the consumer...