10 Upcoming Movie Reboots Literally Nobody Is Asking For

6. Robocop Returns

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2014's Robocop remake was designed with franchise potential in mind, as any studio movie with a $130m budget tends to be these days, but following an unspectacular performance at the box office the plans were nixed, with focus instead shifting to the inevitable reboot instead.

District 9's Neill Blomkamp was initially set for Robocop Returns, which would follow the template set by many reboots and ignore everything that happened in the movies to date and act as a direct follow-up to the classic 1987 original, but eventually dropped out to be replaced by Abe Forsythe.

Paul Verhoeven's Robocop has stood the test of time as one of the action genre's all-time greats, and the two sequels and eventual remake have added nothing to the franchise as a whole, other than continuing to cash in on a brand that holds some sort of cultural cache.

There's little chance of Robocop Returns getting away with the sort of jet-black humor and subversive ideology that characterized the character's first outing, and the reboot will more than likely be yet another in a long line of similar projects that exist solely to trigger nostalgia and earn a quick buck.

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