{"id":59094,"date":"2014-04-12T10:41:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T09:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=59094"},"modified":"2014-04-12T10:42:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T09:42:38","slug":"timecop-reboot-compared-to-looper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/timecop-reboot-compared-to-looper\/","title":{"rendered":"Timecop reboot compared to Looper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59097\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timecop-reboot.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-59097\" alt=\"Jean-Claude Van Damme polices the past with his feet in 1994's Timecop\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timecop-reboot-616x469.png\" width=\"616\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timecop-reboot-616x469.png 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timecop-reboot-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timecop-reboot.png 663w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean-Claude Van Damme polices the past with his feet in 1994&#8217;s Timecop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/timecop-reboot-snags-journey-2-694893\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/timecop-reboot-in-development-no-jean-claude-van-damme\/\">reboot of Jean-Claude Van Damme actioner <em><strong>Timecop<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>&#8211; based on the 1992 Dark Horse comic &#8211; is now being developed by\u00a0<em><strong>Journey 2: The Mysterious Island<\/strong><\/em> writers Mark and Brian Gun.<\/p>\n<p>While that creator credit isn&#8217;t exactly inspiring, the site describes the movie as &#8220;a more gritty and grounded police story with the sci-fi in the background, though will still have the main character on a personal journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most excitingly though, it&#8217;s also being compared to 2012 sci-fi hit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/looper-film-review\/\"><em><strong>Looper<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7OPLHgw54h4\" height=\"347\" width=\"616\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timecop reboot names screenwriters, promises to be as &#8220;gritty and personal&#8221; as Looper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":59097,"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":[3713,2599,3219],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Timecop-reboot.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59094"}],"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=59094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}