Thanks to Death and Taxes for alerting us to this Robocop remake. Not the one by Jose Padiha coming out in wide release but this crowdsourced one made by more than 50 filmmakers. It’s less a shot-for-shot remake and more a scene-for-scene retelling.
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.
Why the remake? The same reason a man would want to wrestle a bear. Because he can. And also, “Because if anyone is going to ruin RoboCop, it’s us.” You can see the entire remake here on their website and I want to highlight why you should. Just take a look at this scene, Scene 27, from the remake done by Fatal Farm. Be warned that this is very NSFW on account of hundreds upon hundreds of penises being shot.