bit.ly - Click to Subscribe! Facebook.com - Become a Fan! Twitter.com - Follow Us! Someone's gotta help Alex Murphy serve the public trust, protect the innocent, and uphold the law -- but, in a twist on the original, next year Robocop won't be partnering with a woman! Paul Verhoeven's classic 1987 sci-fi thriller introduced us to Robocop, a pretty much invincible law-enforcing cyborg made of science and pieces of a murdered police veteran, and charged with the task of saving a future-Detroit that is overrun with organized crime. Street-wise Officer Anne Lewis is the only one who recognizes Robocop as her former partner Alex Murphy, and later helps Robo-Murphy take down the crime boss who murdered him. Murphy and Lewis are a classic team and one of the few male-female police duos in Hollywood cinema. But in the 2013 remake, reports indicate Anne Lewis will be recast as a man. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Kenneth Williams is in talks to play Murphy's as-yet-un-named partner, opposite The Killing's Joel Kinnaman. You may have seen Williams as a racketeer on 'Boardwalk Empire,' a thief-with-a-conscience on 'The Wire,' or an ex-con professor on 'Community,' so it should be interesting to see Williams on the other side of the law. All we know about the character so far is that he will be "tight with Murphy's family." Due out in August 2013, 'Robocop' also stars Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Hugh Laurie, and Abbie Cornish as Murphy's wife, now one of only two ...