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Neill Blomkamp Is No Longer Directing ‘RoboCop Returns’

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After years of principally on-line hype, District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp introduced that he was not connected to the non secular RoboCop sequel RoboCop Returns. The South African filmmaker revealed that he was not connected to the long-gestating challenge in a tweet early Thursday morning.

“Off Robocop,” he tweeted. “I am shooting new horror/thriller and MGM can’t wait/ need to shoot Robocop now. Excited to watch it in theaters with other fans.”

Off Robocop. I’m taking pictures new horror/thriller and MGM can’t wait/ must shoot Robocop now. Excited to look at it in theaters with different followers. N

— Neill Blomkamp (@NeillBlomkamp) August 15, 2019

Aside from the tweet, Blomkamp has not responded to requests for remark from Entertainment Weekly or some other publications which have been following RoboCop Returns‘ ongoing growth. So, all that’s identified right now is what the director was prepared to say within the aforementioned tweet, which comes all the way down to a scheduling subject.

RoboCop Returns, as envisioned by Blomkamp and the writers of the unique RoboCop sequel that the brand new movie was to be based mostly on, was imagined as a non secular sequel to director Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 traditional science-fiction and motion satire movie. What’s extra, the District 9 director typically talked about how a lot of an affect the Verhoeven authentic had on him as a younger viewers member and filmmaker. Sadly, although, it appears Blomkamp’s continuation of Verhoeven’s imaginative and prescient isn’t going to come back to cross.

But hey, we’ll at all times have Chappie.