I was watching the original RoboCop just this evening when, no more than an hour after, did I see news over at Bleeding Cool that an Omni Corp website has been set up ahead of next year’s RoboCop remake starring Gary Oldman, Samuel L Jackson and Hugh Laurie with Joel Kinnaman as the titular cyborg hero.  One of my thoughts whilst watching the 1987 classic tonight was ‘I hope they make the ED-209 into a real beast’. Well, the film gods must have been listening, because here is the first image of the modernised war machine:

I have to admit, I think they have got this spot on.  The new design retains much of the original’s structure, whilst rendering it as a sleek, powerful mechanised nightmare.  I, for one, cannot wait to see it in action.  They even give us a teaser of what ED-209 can do in the brief video found on Omni Corp’s site.   José Padilha’s remake appears to be off to a great start.