{"id":24140,"date":"2012-06-13T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=24140"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T16:01:14","slug":"robocop-reboot-villain-is-hugh-laurie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/robocop-reboot-villain-is-hugh-laurie\/","title":{"rendered":"Robocop reboot villain is Hugh Laurie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24141\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/robocop-reboot-villain-is-hugh-laurie\/attachment\/hugh-laurie-robocop-reboot\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24141\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24141\" title=\"Hugh Laurie Robocop reboot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Hugh-Laurie-Robocop-reboot.jpg\" alt=\"Hugh Laurie Robocop reboot\" width=\"608\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Hugh-Laurie-Robocop-reboot.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Hugh-Laurie-Robocop-reboot-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronny Cox as OCP VP Dick Jones in the original Robocop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>English comedian and actor Hugh Laurie, best known in the US as the titular Doctor in <em>House<\/em>, has signed on to play the villain in the forthcoming <em>Robocop<\/em> remake, according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/hugh-laurie-play-villain-robocop-336463\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Laurie will play the super-rich CEO of Omnicorp, the defence contractor who creates Robocop from the remains of KIA police officer Alex Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Called OCP &#8211; Omni Consumer Products &#8211; in Paul Verhoeven&#8217;s 1987 original, Laurie&#8217;s predecessor would be\u00a0OCP Vice President Richard &#8220;Dick&#8221; Jones, played sublimely by Ronny Cox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House MD star Hugh Laurie is to play Robocop&#8217;s creator and OCP&#8217;s villainous CEO in the remake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":24141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[560],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Hugh-Laurie-Robocop-reboot.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}