The 1987 sci-fi classic RoboCop was a film uniquely of its time. Almost everything that made it compelling — its aggressive gore, wild satire of corporate ethos, and the stylistic excesses of director Paul Verhoeven — would have a hard time playing with modern audiences, yet that wasn’t enough to deter Oxford-educated filmmaker José Padilha from taking on the challenge of a remake. How daunting was the challenge of reimagining RoboCop, and what was the most important thing you knew you had to accomplish to quell audience skepticism? I mean, one way to think about it is to consider what would happen if instead of soldiers in Vietnam, there were robots.
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