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| Officer Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) |
The new trailer
for the RoboCop remake was released yesterday, bringing us a vaguely closer
look at the origins of OmniCorp’s program to bring robots to
the American home front.
Whatever.
As a massive fan of the original 1987 RoboCop, I have yet to see
anything in the trailers for the remake that is as fresh and clever as the
entire original film. I’m also still angry over the apparent lack of Officer
Anne Lewis: a dynamic and engaging secondary character in 1987’s RoboCop and
one of my favorite examples of a woman in an action film.
According to the cast list of the
2014 version, there is no Officer Anne Lewis, simply an Officer Jack Lewis,
played by the awesome Michael
K. Williams. Great, he’s an amazing actor. But the removal of Anne Lewis is
highly troubling to me.
