San Diego Comic-Con 2013: Sony Marching in First RoboCop Remake Footage

Steve Barton   |  

Jul 4, 2013

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Word has hit the internet that Sony Pictures will be screening the first ever footage from the RoboCop remake during the biggest geek dance on the planet… the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con. Hopefully this won’t end up in bloodshed like the 2010 pencil to the eye incident.

According to The Wrap, Sony Pictures is bringing The Amazing Spider-Man 2, RoboCop, and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 to Comic-Con this year. All three panels will take place July 19 in Hall H.

The RoboCop panel offers director Jose Padilha and stars Joel Kinnaman, Abbie Cornish, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Jose Padilha’s film stars Joel Kinnaman as the title hero plus Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Jay Baruchel, Michael Keaton, Michael Kenneth Williams, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Abbie Cornish, Aimee Garcia, and Jackie Earle Haley.

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Currently RoboCop has a release date of February 7, 2014.

Synopsis
In RoboCop the year is 2029, and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Their drones are winning American wars around the globe, and now they want to bring this technology to the home front.

Alex Murphy is a loving husband, father, and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit. After he is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp utilizes its remarkable science of robotics to save Alex’s life.

He returns to the streets of his beloved city with amazing new abilities but with issues a regular man has never had to face before.

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