RoboCop is an American science fiction movie of the cyborg/action subgenres. It was directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier based on a story by Michael Miner. The film was produced by Orion Pictures and released theatrically in the United States on July 17th, 1987. The movie spawned two feature film sequels, a live-action television series, a 2000 television miniseries and two animated spin-off programs.
The movie stars Peter Weller as police officer Alex J. Murphy, Nancy Allen as police officer Anne Lewis, Daniel O'Herlihy as the president of Omni Consumer Products (referred to colloquially as the "Old Man"), Ronny Cox as antagonist Dick Jones and Kurtwood Smith as psycho-villain Clarence Boddicker. Other stars included Miguel Ferrer, Robert DoQui, Ray Wise, Felton Perry and Paul McCrane.
The film takes place in Detroit, Michigan of the near future, which has fallen into near economic ruin and has become a demilitarized haven for psychotic criminals packing hi-tech hardware. The mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products enters into a contract with the Detroit Police Department to provide them with state-of-the-art peacekeeping technology. After their attempts to create robotic sentries meets with failure, they turn towards the world of cybernetics, converting dying police officer Alex Murphy into the one-man law enforceer, RoboCop.
This is the first film work for writer Edward Neumeier, who is also associate producer on this film. He will go on to write episodes of the RoboCop television series in 1994 as well as the RoboCop: Prime Directives miniseries in 2000.
Michael Miner developed the story for this movie and it is his first professional film work. He will go on to write episodes of the RoboCop television series in 1994 as well as provide the story treatment for the 1996 film Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyperspace.
Actor Jesse D. Goins is credited as Jesse Goins in this film.
Actor Lee de Broux is credited as Lee DeBroux in this film.
Actor Kevin Page is credited as Ken Page in this film.
Actor Tyrees Allen is credited as Tyress Allen in this film.
Home Video[]
RoboCop is included on The RoboCop TrilogyDVD and Blu-ray collections. The DVD was released by MGM Home Video on June 8th, 2004. The Blu-ray edition was released on October 5th, 2010.
