ROBOCOP opens in cinemas in the US this week, a film that we do believe is actually rather good, but a crowd-sourced ROBOCOP remake, featuring the filmmaking talents of 50 people, amateur and professional, is also doing the rounds online. This has a definite BE KIND REWIND feel about it, and well, I’ll let them tell you exactly what this is all about.
Our RoboCop Remake is a crowd-sourced film project based on the 1987 Paul Verhoeven classic. Connected through various filmmaking channels (including Channel 101) we’re 50 filmmakers (amateur and professional) from Los Angeles and New York who have split the original RoboCop into individual pieces and have remade the movie ourselves. Not necessarily a shot-for-shot remake, but a scene-for-scene retelling. As big fans of the original RoboCop, and as filmmakers and film fans admittedly rolling our eyes at the Hollywood remake machine, we’ve elected to do this remake thing our own way.
I’ve not got all of the way through it as yet, but the remake is actually pretty well made and really fun, and although it is told with a slight comedic spin, you can tell that they’re pretty passionate about the source material, as many people are. I wasn’t sold on the idea of the new movie remake, but I actually really enjoyed it. As they say in their trailer though, if anyone was going to ruin ROBOCOP, it was going to be them.
ROBOCOP is playing in UK cinemas now. Watch Our Robocop Remake below, and visit the official film’s site here.
