Is This Little Known Actor Our New Robocop?

The first major casting news in MGM’s remake of Robocop has surfaced from Deadline.com, and it looks like actor Joel Kinnaman is being offered the lead in director Jose Padilha’s reboot of the beloved series. Joel who you say? Well, Joel Kinnaman has been featured in a few high profile projects lately, like AMC’s The Killing and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. But he hardly has the recognizability of earlier rumored leads like Michael C. Hall from Dexter. Then again, When Paul Verhoeven’s original Robocop was released back in 1987, star Peter Weller was best known for  being  in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai….oh, and for pinning an 11 year old Corey Haim against a wall in fit of rage during filming of the movie Firstborn (seriously, he did…Google that shit,) So in casting an relative unknown for the part of Robocop, MGM might be hoping that lighting strikes twices.