It's all change for Jose Padilha's Robocop remake: OCP becomes Omnicorp, the story is to focus more on his transformation from Alex Murphy into Robocop, and now the gender of his partner is been changed with Micheal Kenneth Williams (The Wire, Community, Boardwalk Empire) in talks to occupy the role played by Nancy Allen in the original. Not much more is know about the character, not even a name, beyond the fact that he is very close with Murphy's family.
If Williams bags the role he will join Joel Kinnaman as the titular cyborg, Hugh Laurie as the villain, and also Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jay Baruchel, and Jackie Earle Healy. Production is slated to begin in September, withe Toronto standing in for a near future Detroit. A release date is set for 9th of September 2013.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
