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RoboCop was a financial success upon its release in July 1987, earning $53.4 million. Reviewers praised it as a clever action film with deeper philosophical messages and satire, but were conflicted about its extreme violence. The film was nominated for several awards, and won an Academy Award and a number of Saturn Awards.
RoboCop is an American cyberpunk action media franchise featuring the futuristic adventures of Alex Murphy, a Detroit, Michigan police officer, who is fatally wounded in the line of duty and transformed into a powerful cyborg, brand-named RoboCop, at the behest of a powerful mega-corporation, Omni Consumer Products.
RoboCop's leg holster was made using a leg mold and cable-controlled by three operators, [40] and three separate arms were made for different functions: an articulated, cable-controlled arm shown moving during RoboCop's creation; one with a spring-loaded spike attached to a metal frame and held near Weller when RoboCop accesses the police ...
The Enforcement Droid Series 209, or ED-209 (pronounced Ed Two Oh Nine), is a heavily armed robot, sporting twin cannons on its left and right sides, a large, oblong visor much like a cockpit (despite the robot piloting itself) and legs with backwards-facing knees.
The “Robocop” TV series in development at Amazon is starting to take shape. Variety has learned that Peter Ocko has boarded the project to serve as writer, executive producer and showrunner.
RoboCop (2003 video game), a first-person shooter video game based on the RoboCop films; RoboCop, an American cyberpunk superhero action film and a remake of the 1987 film; RoboCop (character), a fictional robotically enhanced Detroit police officer; RoboCop, a number of comic book series spun off from the feature film of the same name
The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923. In the play, the word refers to artificially created life forms. [1] Named robots in the play are Marius, Sulla, Radius, Primus, Helena, and ...
It also created a major paradox for the writers of the Marvel comic monthly series, as we see the "Old Man" as a good guy in the RoboCop film adaptation, as a villain in the RoboCop 2 adaptation, and strictly a good guy in the early monthly series of original stories. What followed was a transformation that uncomfortably teetered between ...