Joel Kinnaman, from the AMC series The Killing, has been offered the title role in the Robocop reboot, according to Deadline. (In the original movie, Peter Weller played Officer Alex Murphy/Robocop.)

“In the first RoboCop when Alex Murphy is shot, gunned down, then you see some hospitals and stuff and then you cut to him as RoboCop.” director Jose Padilha told ComingSoon. “My movie is between those two cuts. How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?”

在幾經(jīng)輾轉(zhuǎn)之后，新版《機械戰(zhàn)警》的男主演終于有了著落，曾出演美劇《謀殺》的喬爾·金納曼有望成為這部影片的主演。

與之前傳說的邁克爾·法斯賓德不同，擁有瑞典和美國雙重國籍的喬爾·金納曼并不為人所熟知，但近年也出演了幾部大制作，比如《龍紋身的女孩》和《藏身之所》。不過目前他尚未與《機械戰(zhàn)警》的劇組正式簽約。

據(jù)悉，老版《機械戰(zhàn)警》將主角機器人抽象成了一個符號來影射整個社會，但在新版本中，導(dǎo)演表示將塑造出一個有存在感的獨立機器人個體，通過他的特別身份，進而討論人與機器人之間的差別，還有自由意志的必要性。

曾經(jīng)成功執(zhí)導(dǎo)過《精英部隊》系列的巴西導(dǎo)演/編劇何塞·帕迪里亞將掌舵這部新《機械戰(zhàn)警》。他將和Joshua Zetumer一同完成劇本。影片預(yù)計于2013年上映。