{"id":21849,"date":"2012-08-27T17:29:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T21:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=21849"},"modified":"2021-10-29T20:33:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:33:22","slug":"is-remaking-robocop-making-director-jose-padilha-bitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/27\/is-remaking-robocop-making-director-jose-padilha-bitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Remaking ROBOCOP Making Director Jose Padilha \u201cBitter\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Even at the best of times, working on a Hollywood studio film can be a pressure cooker experience. But when that film is hoped to relaunch a franchise at studio that has been fighting its way back from bankruptcy and I would imagine that the pressure only increases exponentially. That certainly seems to be the case with Brazilian director Jose Padilha who is currently prepping MGM\u2019s Robocop<\/strong> remake.<\/p>\n

According to his friend and fellow director Fernando Mereilles, Padilha has been butting heads with MGM on a number of issues and is becoming \u201cbitter\u201d over the entire experiences. This comes from an interview Mereilles did with Portuguese film site Cinemacom Rapadura<\/a> and translated by the folks over at Screen Crush<\/a> \u2013<\/p>\n

I talked to Jos\u00e9 Padilha for a week by phone. He will begin filming Robocop<\/strong>. He is saying that it is the worst experience. For every 10 ideas he has, 9 are cut. Whatever he wants, he has to fight. \u201cThis is hell here,\u201d he told me. \u201cThe film will be good, but I never suffered so much and do not want to do it again.\u201d He is bitter, but it\u2019s a fighter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even with the vagaries that may be in the translations, it is easy to see that Padilha does not seem to be having an easy time on the project.<\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t really surprising. As I mentioned above, as MGM struggles back from its most recent bankruptcy it is looking at the new Robocop film to launch a continuing franchise that they can count on for continuous revenue going forward. As such, every aspect of the production is going to be scrutinized and very probably over-thought by executives who are more experienced at bean counting than they are at telling a story or making a movie. Also, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised that Padilha was hired not so much for his experience in directing action films like Elite Squad<\/strong> in his native Brazil, but because he doesn\u2019t really have any real clout in Hollywood and therefore was perceived as someone whom they could push around.<\/p>\n

So, does this mean that the production is in trouble? That\u2019s hard to say. The film\u2019s prospects certainly don\u2019t seem all too positive following the blistering twitter review its screenplay recently got. And just this past week actor Hugh Laurie passed on participating in the film right as his deal was being finalized.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019re still a long ways off from the film\u2019s final cut being delivered to the studio and there\u2019s a lot of time for Padilha to fight to make whatever changes he feels are in the project\u2019s best interests.<\/p>\n

Production is set to start next month in Toronto, with a cast that will include Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jennifer Ehle, Jackie Earle Haley, Jay Baruchel, Michael K. Williams, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. It is scheduled for an August 9, 2013 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is there too much pressure on the director from studio execs?<\/div>\n

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