Killing machine

And they just keep on re-booting. Latest for a Hollywood makeover is Paul Verhoeven's 1987 heavy metal classic RoboCop, so successful it even spawned two (increasingly naff) sequels.

Taking on the role of part man-part machine Alex Murphy, played in the first two RoboCop movies by intense American actor Peter Weller, will be Joel Kinnaman (below), best known as the twitchy lawman sidekick in the American TV version of The Killing.

For the 2013 release, directed by Jose (Elite Squad) Padilha, Kinnaman will be joined in the futuristic world of 2029 Detroit by Gary Oldman, as RoboCop inventor, and Samuel L Jackson, as the city's top media mogul.