Last month, we brought you an interview with director José Padilha (Elite Squad, Elite Squad 2) who is set to helm the theatrical return of Robocop. Back then, Padilha spoke about how his version of the story will differ from the original, as well as hinting at possible redesigns for the character.

Now, in a interview with SHH, the director spoke a bit about 1987’s original RoboCop and the social commentary of the film:

“‘RoboCop’ the first movie was fantastic,” he told us. “But even if there was no movie, the concept of ‘RoboCop’ is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, ‘To when do you lose you humanity?’ The way it does that is by replacing body parts with machine parts, and that’s very smart because guess what? It’s going to happen!”

Padilha also revealed a bit about the vision for his RoboCop:

“I have my take on it,” he continued, “And I can tell you this: In the first ‘RoboCop’ when Alex Murphy is shot, gunned down, then you see some hospitals and stuff and then you cut to him as RoboCop. My movie is between those two cuts. How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?”

RoboCop is slated to hit theaters in 2013.