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  1. Sep 26, 2024 · Finally, there was a 2001 miniseries, RoboCop: Prime Directives, a very low-budget Canadian production that billed itself as an alternate sequel to the original film. Unsurprisingly, none of...

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  2. Nov 21, 2019 · RoboCop Returns will be a direct sequel to the original 1987 RoboCop, and originally Neil Blomkamp was attached to direct. But Blomkamp had to exit the project back in August, and three months...

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    But long before Starship Troopers, while working as a studio development executive in the mid '80s, Neumeier had an idea about a cybernetic police officer on the streets of Detroit and the military-corporate-industrial complex that turns out to be worse than the criminals on the streets. He'd written most of the script, but meeting emerging filmmak...

    Verhoeven later surprised everyone – including himself – by directing kick-ass action scenes like RoboCop’s first night on duty, the “melting man” and ED-209’s tragic malfunction. "It wasn't the reason to do the movie, the philosophical underpinnings of the script attracted me,” he says. “But it turned out I could do action very well." Realising he...

    But while RoboCop and Starship Troopers are great fun, they depict pretty grim futures — Verhoeven's dystopian classic Total Recall(1990) rounds out the trilogy. After growing up seeing the Gestapo throw neighbors in vans never to be seen again and V2 rockets raining terror from above, maybe he's just a pessimist. "Without negativity, there's no dr...

  3. The new film, reportedly titled Robocop Returns, will be directed by Abe Forsythe, and will ignore the whole franchise except the 1987 original.

  4. Jul 11, 2018 · Originally written to be the sequel to director Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop, RoboCop Returns will see RoboCop making his triumphant return to Detroit to fight crime and corruption as the city's fate...

  5. Oct 19, 2023 · First, Verhoeven didn't want to direct a sequel. Second, Neumeier and Miner were busy working on a screenplay for Oliver Stone, so they couldn't solely focus on the "RoboCop"...

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  7. Aug 28, 2023 · When RoboCop Returns was announced, original writer Ed Neumeier had confirmed the concept was based on a sequel script he had written back in 1988 that Blomkamp would be reviving. Back in 2022...

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