Its Official – Joel Kinnaman Is Robocop

We recently announced that Joel Kinnaman was in talks to play the lead role in the upcoming Robocop remake and now it has been made official, Joel Kinnaman will be Robocop.

According to Deadline, MGM closed its deal with Joel Kinnaman to play the title role in Jose Padilha’s remake of Robocop.

Eric Newman and Marc Abraham will be producing through Strike Entertainment and Josh Zetumer wrote the script.

At this time we still don’t have any news on story details, but last we heard was that the film would focus more on the psychological impact of Murphy’s transformation into a cyborg.

So what do you guys think about this casting choice, good or bad?