{"id":27641,"date":"2012-08-25T12:07:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T11:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=27641"},"modified":"2012-08-29T09:25:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T08:25:35","slug":"robocop-reboot-clive-owen-replaces-hugh-laurie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/robocop-reboot-clive-owen-replaces-hugh-laurie\/","title":{"rendered":"RoboCop reboot: Clive Owen replaces Hugh Laurie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27642\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Children-Of-Men.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27642\" title=\"Children Of Men\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Children-Of-Men-616x331.jpg\" alt=\"Children Of Men\" width=\"616\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Children-Of-Men-616x331.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Children-Of-Men-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Children-Of-Men-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Children-Of-Men.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clive Owen in 2006&#8217;s Children Of Men<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A couple of days ago,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/robocop-reboot-villain-is-hugh-laurie\/\"> <em>House<\/em> star Hugh Laurie<\/a> was revealed to be no longer attached to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/robocop-reboot-ed-209-first-look\/\">MGM&#8217;s reboot of Eighties action thriller <em>RoboCop<\/em><\/a> as the main villain and\u00a0possible\u00a0head of the\u00a0villainous OmniCorp (OCP in the original), but now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/08\/no-hugh-laurie-for-robocop-remake\/\"><em>Deadline<\/em> is reporting<\/a> that a number of actors are in talks to take on the role, and one of them is <em>Children Of Men<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/intruders-its-personal\/\">Clive Owen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If cast, Owen will join\u00a0<em>The Killing<\/em>&#8216;s Joel Kinnaman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/abbie-cornish-to-play-robocops-wife\/\"><em>Sucker Punch<\/em>&#8216;s Abbie Cornish<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/robocop-reboot-gains-jackie-earle-haley\/\"><em>Watchmen<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0Jackie Earle Haley<\/a> and undisputed genre heavyweights Gary Oldman and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/samuel-l-jackson-joins-robocop-remake\/\">Samuel L Jackson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>RoboCop<\/em> is expected in cinemas 9 August 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children Of Men&#8217;s Clive Owen may be RoboCop&#8217;s nemesis in the reboot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":27642,"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":[2615,3],"tags":[560],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Children-Of-Men.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27641"}],"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=27641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}