“That was a movie? I thought it was an unusually optimistic episode of Frontline.”

Given how irrelevant the original proved itself to be — like Detroit would ever become a failed city ruled by a corporate-backed dictator — I’m glad they’ve decided to reboot RoboCop:

I’m especially excited with the way they’ve eschewed the awfulness of the original and just done blowed him up instead of executing him while we’re in his head. Wouldn’t want to the audience to be disturbed by lawless violence, now would we?

(Also, that’s quite a cast for what’s clearly a B-movie. I actually can’t think of a more talented one.)