First trailer for 'RoboCop' remake with Joel Kinnaman

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">FROM: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/">http://www.latimes.com</a><br /><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Yq9ym2mAjsU?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe> <br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Honestly, between the twerking controversy and the "Fifty Shades of Grey" casting uproar, sometimes it's a wonder anyone wants to do anything anymore, lest they incur the scornful wrath of the collective consciousness of the Internet.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">That intersection between man and machine is explicitly explored in the first trailer from the upcoming remake of "Robocop." Starring Joel Kinnaman in the role played by <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/peter-weller-PECLB0000007829.topic" id="PECLB0000007829" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Peter Weller">Peter Weller</a> in the 1987 original, the new film puts a drone-era twist on the original's story of a wounded man encased in a robotic outfit in hopes of becoming the ultimate tool of law enforcement.</div><div class="articlerail" style="background-color: white; clear: both; float: left; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 234px; z-index: 4;"><div id="story-leftrail-ad" style="clear: both; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 234px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 234px;"><div style="border: 0px; left: 0px; 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margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Directed by Brazilian-born filmmaker José Padilha, the film's impressive cast also includes <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/samuel-l.-jackson-PECLB002552.topic" id="PECLB002552" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Samuel L. Jackson">Samuel L. Jackson</a>, <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/gary-oldman-PECLB003339.topic" id="PECLB003339" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Gary Oldman">Gary Oldman</a>, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/jay-baruchel-PECLB0000006675.topic" id="PECLB0000006675" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Jay Baruchel">Jay Baruchel</a>,<a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/jackie-earle-haley-PECLB0000006550.topic" id="PECLB0000006550" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Jackie Earle Haley">Jackie Earle Haley</a>, <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/jennifer-ehle-PECLB0000006722.topic" id="PECLB0000006722" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Jennifer Ehle">Jennifer Ehle</a> and <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/michael-k.-williams-PECLB0000008111.topic" id="PECLB0000008111" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Michael K. Williams">Michael K. Williams</a>.</div><div class="normal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-fall-movie-sneaks-2013-pictures,0,2427169.photogallery" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">PHOTOS: Fall movie sneaks 2013</span></a><span style="font-weight: 700;"></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">In an<a href="http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/robocop-first-look-jose-padilha-tackles-drone-politics-in-reboot/#/0" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> interview with the L.A. Times' Hero Complex</a>, Padilha spoke to the political undercurrents that percolate in both the original and his film.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">"The thing that distinguishes 'RoboCop' from most superhero movies is if you look at a movie like <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/spider-man-%28movie%29-ENMV00010402.topic" id="ENMV00010402" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Spider-Man (movie)">'Spider-Man'</a>or <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/iron-man-%28movie%29-ENMV000056.topic" id="ENMV000056" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Iron Man (movie)">'Iron Man,'</a> every kid wants to be Spider-Man or aspires to be Iron Man.... RoboCop, he cannot touch his wife and his son, he cannot relate to humans in the way he related before he became RoboCop, so there’s no <em>aspiration to be</em>RoboCop.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">"This is not what the original movie was about. It wasn’t a movie sold or designed based on that. It was designed based on a character that has more like a Frankensteinian characteristic. You don’t want to be Frankenstein. You don’t want to be RoboCop. But RoboCop embodies a philosophical idea and a political idea. It talks about fascism."</div><div class="normal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesneaks/" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">SNEAKS: Movie trailers, full coverage</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Looks exciting, especially with such small touches as the RoboCop suit now rendered in black rather than the iconic metallic silver of the original.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The general response via Twitter seemed dubious. The tech and entertainment website <a href="http://io9.com/all-the-things-that-make-us-nervous-and-excited-in-th-1265155617" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;">i09</a> said the trailer "made us feel a lot of things. Some excitement, but mostly dread."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">We'll all find out when the film is released Feb. 7, 2014.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">For sake of comparison, here's the trailer to the original:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/h96IdEwITY4?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></div>

RoboCop trailer First trailer for 'RoboCop' remake with Joel Kinnaman

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