The writing’s been on the wall for Darren Aronofsky’s Robocop reboot for awhile now. Back in February we heard he was still attached to the project, but the Requiem for a Dream director has shown no inclination to actually, you know, make it. Worse it’s an MGM property and, well, anything at MGM is pretty much dead. So it’s no surprise that Moviehole and the Financial Times says the whole thing has been scrapped.

It sounds like the entire project has, almost literally, been flushed down the toilet. Aronofsky has lost interest in it anyway and even if he hadn’t it wasn’t going to get made. Word is that there won’t be another Robocop, at least not any time soon. It makes sense, if MGM can’t get The Hobbit or more James Bond made, what hope for Robocop? None. Maybe some day someone else will tackle it, but not MGM and not Darren Aronofsky.