Ed Neumeier Gives Update on RoboCop Returns, Says It Is Based on Original Sequel Plans

RoboCop co-writer Ed Neumeier spoke with HN Entertainment and gave an update on Neil Blomkamp’s planned RoboCop Returns film. Neumeier, who co-wrote the original film with Michael Miner, told the outlet that the film will be based on a script that he and Miner wrote in the 1980s for a sequel to the original.

“I am a producer at the moment,” Neumeier. “We talked about it a couple of years back and I reminded [MGM] that we had written a very rough sequel back in 1988 which then was stopped by the writer’s strike, the same year. And they looked at it and they said ‘Oh, good!’, so we did some more work on that and then Neill Blomkamp found out about it and he said ‘I have always wanted to do this, this is my dream project’ and MGM was very very pleased to get into business with him.”

He continued to say, “Neill Blomkamp and his screenwriter Justin Rhodes have done a pass on the script we were writing on and they’re doing another one. It is a slightly different concept in some ways than we were originally doing. I don’t want to talk too much about it or somebody will call me and tell me to shut up, but we’re hopeful and I think Neill really really wants to make a good RoboCop movie. His idea is that it should be the proper Verhoeven… if Verhoeven had directed a movie right after RoboCop… I think that’s what he is trying to achieve and I hope he does. We’ll see what happens next.”

Neumeier also confirmed that Blomkamp wants to bring back Peter Weller, saying, “As you know from the press that Neill Blomkamp wants to bring back Peter Weller back and what you get when you do that, if you use the DNA of the old property in the new, is that you get something that shares continuity and fans can embrace the brand.”