RoboCop
Short description
In 2028, the multinational OmniCorp leads the robotics industry, and its drones have long been used by the American military overseas. Law enforcement at home is another matter, since machines are barred from policing within the United States. When Detroit police officer Alex Murphy, a husband and father, is critically injured in the line of duty, the company sees a way to change that. Working under Dr. Dennett Norton, OmniCorp rebuilds Murphy into a part-human, part-machine officer, a product it hopes to sell to every city in the country. The company's plans do not account for the memories and instincts that survive inside the machine.
José Padilha directed the film, which followed his two Elite Squad features and Garapa, and came before Rio, I Love You and 7 Days in Entebbe. Joel Kinnaman plays Murphy, with Gary Oldman as Norton, Michael Keaton as OmniCorp's Raymond Sellars, Abbie Cornish as Clara Murphy, Jackie Earle Haley as Rick Mattox and Michael Kenneth Williams as Jack Lewis. The screenplay is credited to Joshua Zetumer along with Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. It cost around 120 million dollars and returned roughly 243 million worldwide.
Audiences are divided on it. On IMDb it holds 6.1 out of 10 from about 249,000 votes, and on TMDB 5.9 out of 10 from around 6,000 votes. A critics' rating of 5.7 out of 10 from 220 reviews places professional opinion close to the audience scores, with neither group rating it highly.
What's left behind the scenes
- Michael Fassbender, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Russell Crowe were considered for the lead role.
- Darren Aronofsky was initially credited as the film's director, but was later replaced by Brazilian director José Padilha.
- Hugh Laurie negotiated for the role of Raymond Sellars, but the negotiations fell through. Clive Owen was seriously considered as Laurie's replacement, but Michael Keaton was ultimately chosen.
- Edward Norton turned down the role of Dr. Norton. Gary Oldman took on the role.
- Sean Penn declined the role of media mogul Pat Novak, which Samuel L. Jackson eventually landed.
- Gael García Bernal, Alexander Skarsgård, and Logan Marshall-Green were close to being cast in the role that went to Michael K. Williams.
- Rebecca Hall turned down the role of Alex Murphy's wife. Jessica Alba, Keri Russell, and Kate Mara auditioned, but Abby Cornish got the part.
- The preserved hand is a reference to the first RoboCop film. During the creation of the robot police officer, the hand is shown to project leader Bob Morton, who remarks to his colleagues: "Why did you leave the hand? We talked about a full body prosthesis."
- To promote the film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and Sony Pictures created a pseudo-official website for the non-existent OmniCorp in 2012. The site featured an OmniCorp promotional video, recordings of fictional news reports about unrest in American cities, a description of two of its products (an unmanned aircraft and the ED-209 robot), and an announcement of the RC-2000 cyborg. A pseudo-official Facebook profile was also created, featuring the same video and other photographs of the ED-209 robot (including its older model with its creator) and the RC-2000.
- Production designer Martin Whist was responsible for the film's futuristic design. When working on RoboCop's motorcycle, Whist based it on a Kawasaki Z1000, then made radical changes to the model.
- Joshua Zetumer wrote the screenplay for the film based on an unfinished draft by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, which was written in 1985 at the request of director Paul Verhoeven, but subsequently rejected by him.
- When arresting Sellers, RoboCop says, "Dead or alive, you're coming with me." He utters this line in the original 1987 film.
- During the car explosion in front of the protagonist's house, no glass broke from the blast wave, but he sustained serious injuries.
- When RoboCop rides up to the warehouse on a motorcycle, his gun is in his right hand, and then in another shot, he enters the warehouse with the gun in his left hand.
- When Sellars reviews a sketch of the robotic suit design, you can see that it is a suit from the film "RoboCop" (1987).
- When Alex fails the initial combat tests, the character Jackie Earle Haley says, "I wouldn't buy that for a dollar." In the original film, a game show is shown several times with a host shouting, "I'd buy that for a dollar!"
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