Release Date Announced for Robocop Remake

With a director and lead actor now locked in, Sony has announced an official 2013 release date for the remake of Robocop. Last week, it was revealed that Joel Kinnaman had officially signed on for the lead role. With that taken care of, Sony was confident in setting a release date of August 9th, 2013.

At this time there are no other films opening on that weekend. Of course, that will change, but no other studios have laid claim to that weekend for a big opening.

Elite Squad director Jose Padilha joined the project last year and Gran Torino writer Nick Schenk was brought on board this February to work on the script. If you want to get an idea for what vision Padilha has for the film, here's a quote from last year talking about the direction he wanted to take:

“ ‘RoboCop’ is a brilliant premise because the character is not a super-hero… He’s a man who’s been transformed by technology for certain purposes. And so that premise alone touches so many interesting subjects. What does it mean to be immersed in automated systems and deprived of free will? What does it mean to be used by corporations for certain purposes? How does the media spin things around to make certain interests accepted by the public? Those are all things you can see in the first ‘RoboCop,’ and those are all things that are coming closer and closer to being real. Science is taking us there. And so that premise alone is really interesting to me.”