{"id":21905,"date":"2012-08-29T22:39:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T02:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=21905"},"modified":"2012-08-29T22:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T02:39:35","slug":"michael-keaton-signs-on-to-replace-hugh-laurie-in-robocop-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/29\/michael-keaton-signs-on-to-replace-hugh-laurie-in-robocop-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Keaton Signs On To Replace Hugh Laurie In ROBOCOP Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/michael-keaton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21906\" title=\"michael keaton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/michael-keaton-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> It&#8217;s been a rough couple of weeks for the <strong>Robocop <\/strong>remake. First, HitFlix&#8217;s Drew McWeeny got his hands on a copy of the script for the film and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/13\/the-word-on-the-robocop-remake-script-is-in-and-it-isnt-good\/\">trashed it<\/a>. Then it was revealed through an interview with friend and fellow director\u00a0\u00a0Fernando Mereilles, that the remake&#8217;s director Jose Padiha was becoming &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/27\/is-remaking-robocop-making-director-jose-padilha-bitter\/\">bitter<\/a>&#8221; with the process of making the film.<\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought things couldn&#8217;t get any worse, Hugh Laurie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/08\/no-hugh-laurie-for-robocop-remake\/\">drops out<\/a> of the role of Ray Sellars, the villainous head of the corporation that makes Robocop.<\/p>\n<p>After that string of bad news, any good news would seem to be a miracle. Well, here&#8217;s your miracle. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/08\/michael-keaton-joins-robocop-remake\/\">Deadline<\/a> is announcing that Michael Keaton has signed on to replace Laurie in the role of Sellars.<\/p>\n<p>I consider Keaton to be one of the most underrated and underused actors of his generation. He excels at comedy, as witnessed in\u00a0<strong>Night Shift<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Mr. Mom<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Johnny Dangerously<\/strong>, but could also do drama, such as\u00a0<strong>Clean and Sober\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Pacific H<\/strong><strong>eights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keaton&#8217;s profile has been lower over the last decade, with a majority of his acting coming in leads in low budget pictures, supporting roles in mid-level films, voiceover work in several Pixar movies and the occasional television work. This will be his highest profile work in years, and long overdue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robocop\u00a0<\/strong>is scheduled to start shooting next month for an August 2013 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Finally, some good news for the embattled remake.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/29\/michael-keaton-signs-on-to-replace-hugh-laurie-in-robocop-remake\/\" title=\"Michael Keaton Signs On To Replace Hugh Laurie In ROBOCOP Remake\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4954,5610,5608,2881,5607,5609,426,4955,4956,5606,3544],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-clean-and-sober","8":"tag-drew-mcweeny","9":"tag-fernando-mereilles","10":"tag-hugh-laurie","11":"tag-johnny-dangerously","12":"tag-jose-padiha","13":"tag-michael-keaton","14":"tag-mr-mom","15":"tag-night-shift","16":"tag-pacific-heights","17":"tag-robocop"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21905"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=21905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}