Requiem for a ROBOCOP?

Buried, almost hidden away in that article from The Hollywood Reporter discussing the Red Dawn remake comes this quote which completely slipped me by but thankfully both AICN and /Film picked up on it...

Parent and MGM chairman and CEO Harry Sloan announced the "Red Dawn" remake -- along with a big-budget rebuild of "RoboCop," which director Darren Aronofsky among others has recently been in to discuss -- in May at the Festival de Cannes.
Has Aronofsky been taking crack or is he hurt over the critics totally bashing his last movie The Fountain? He is already doing a movie titled The Wrestler which we expected him to follow-up with a movie about a boxer titled The Fighter... and now he is eyeing a RoboCop remake? When did he go all mainstream on us? You may remember at the turn of the Millennium, way before Christopher Nolan landed the Batman gig... a certain Darren Aronofsky had met with Warner Bros. and handed in his very different, dark and grim take of Batman which he adapted from Frank Miller's Year One. It was a pretty obvious reaction to Batman & Robin - a movie so filled with McDonald's colours that he went in a completely different direction and it was evidently rejected. It was like when Batman Returns turned into Batman Forever. That kind of jolt... his Batman: Year One was way dark. Since then he's never come close to getting his hands on a franchise gig, that is until now it seems. Would he do the same for RoboCop which some of you may not know was a terrifically dark and controversial movie upon it's debut in the late 80's and was heavily edited down to avoid an R Rating. Could we be in store for an artful Robocop translation? At this point, we know the movie is going to happen... aren't we more pleased to see Aronofsky behind it than a Michael Bay or Brett Ratner?
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