Padilha Won’t Use Aronofsky’s “RoboCop” Script

Director Jose Padilha says that his upcoming reboot of RoboCop won’t follow the story created by Darren Aronofsky.   Aronofsky was attached to the project for a time before departing to pursue other interests.

“I haven’t read Aronofsky’s script. Aronofsky is a great director. I love his films. I am very proud because I saw Pi in the opening Sundance screening and I loved it. So Aronofsky’s great. I have my own take on RoboCop. I know what his take was and it’s totally different. It’s a different thing, different kind of film, even different period in time so I haven’t read his previous work,” says Padilha.

And while he won’t tell us exactly what we’ll see in the new RoboCop, Padilha says the film will be set and filmed in Detroit.

“Listen, there are the constants and the variables in this world, right? Some things change and some things never change. Corporations controlling people are a constant. It’s the banks now, it’s going to be something else 30 years from now. It was something else before. This is the way economics works. So we’re not making a film about mortgage, that I can tell you,” he says.