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Leading the 'can you believe it? No I cannot, but it is great news anyway', category for the week, Darren Aronofsky has confirmed that he will be directing the remake of quintessential 80's classic, Robocop.

And this is hot on the heels of his lates film, The Wrestler, that is already stirring up Oscar buzz for its leading man, Mickey Rourke.

Empire UK spoke to the director of The Fountain and Pi (woohoo!) when he visited London to preview The Wrestler.

“It's a real reinvention,” he told Empire, responding to those rumours that the movie would somehow follow on or be a direct sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1987 original.

“Me and David Self are working on the screenplay. He's a great, great writer and we're trying to do something new and fresh. We'll see what happens when the screenplay comes.”

He wouldn't be drawn, though, on which elements would be carried over from the cyberpunk classic, or if room would be made for the original Murphy – Peter Weller – to make a cameo.

“There'll be...” he started to say, before Prime Directive 4 (“classified”) kicked in and moved him onto safer, vaguer ground. “I'm a big fan of the original. It still holds up as an amazing film, and I think it's more just looking at that same type of material in the 21st century and seeing where it leads us.”


Let's hope he "stays out of trouble" and doesn't run into any ED 209's in the production process.