FILM · 1990 · USA
RoboCop 2
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- #001
RoboCop's suit in this film was made entirely of FiberGlass. This gave Peter Weller much more freedom of movement and gave the costume a far more metallic look.
- #002
Peter Weller criticized the script, saying it lacked the spine and spirit of the original. Weller tried to convince Frank Miller, Irvin Kershner and the film's producers that the third act needed a moral perspective rather than just an 'everyone shoot' sequence. The producers felt the battle between RoboCop and Cain was sufficient.
- #003
Frank, the chemist who produces the Nuke drug designed for Cain, appears in the cameo in the title sequence. This appearance came about because Miller stayed on set throughout the production even though his contract did not require it. The character bears the creator's name and dies later in the film during the police raid on the production facility.
- #004
Data East produced most of the arcade cabinets seen during the interrogation of the corrupt officer. Visible titles include "Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja" (1988), "Sly Spy" (1989), "Midnight Resistance" (1989) and "Heavy Barrel" (1987). Data East held the licensing rights to the "RoboCop" video game series during production, having developed the original "RoboCop" arcade game (1988) and the follow-up "RoboCop 2" (1991). The cabinet labeled "Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja" is actually running "Sly Spy" (1989) software during the scene where RoboCop slams the suspect into the machine.
- #005
Some of RoboCop's new directives (in numerical order): * DIRECTIVE 233: Restrain hostile feelings. * DIRECTIVE 234: Promote positive attitude. * DIRECTIVE 235: Suppress aggression. * DIRECTIVE 236: Promote pro-social values. * DIRECTIVE 238: Avoid destructive behavior. * DIRECTIVE 239: Be accessible. * DIRECTIVE 240: Participate in group activities. * DIRECTIVE 241: Avoid interpersonal conflicts. * DIRECTIVE 242: Avoid premature value judgments. * DIRECTIVE 243: Pool opinions before expressing yourself. * DIRECTIVE 244: Discourage feelings of negativity and hostility. * DIRECTIVE 245: If you haven't got anything nice to say, don't talk. * DIRECTIVE 246: Don't rush traffic lights. * DIRECTIVE 247: Don't run through puddles and splash pedestrians or other cars. * DIRECTIVE 248: Don't say that you are always rushed. * DIRECTIVE 249: Don't be overly sensitive to others' hostility and negativity. * DIRECTIVE 250: Don't walk through a ballroom floor swinging your arms. * DIRECTIVE 254: Encourage awareness. * DIRECTIVE 256: Discourage harsh language. * DIRECTIVE 258: Commend sincere efforts. * DIRECTIVE 261: Talk out problems. * DIRECTIVE 262: Avoid Orion meetings. * DIRECTIVE 266: Smile. * DIRECTIVE 267: Be open-minded. * DIRECTIVE 268: Encourage participation. * DIRECTIVE 273: Avoid stereotyping. * DIRECTIVE 278: Seek non-violent solutions.
- #006
Although the producers stated that the content was approved, they considered Frank Miller's original script unfilmable. The rewrite moved the final theatrical version away from the source material, keeping minimal similarities to the first narrative. Avatar Press adapted the original script into a nine-issue comic book series titled Frank Miller's RoboCop in 2003.
- #007
The storyline involving the corrupt Officer Duffy ran much longer in the film's first cut; it included a much longer sequence in which Duffy is tortured and killed on screen, as well as an ongoing portion in which other officers keep finding his dismembered body parts. The producers knew these sections would earn the film an X rating and completed the story quickly with relatively little blood and no follow-up material.
- #008
In the scene where an enraged 'RoboCain' breaks Angie's neck and kills her, actress Galyn Görg managed to twist her neck so unnaturally that the production team initially feared she had actually hurt herself.
- #009
RoboCop reloads his Auto 9 firearm during the OCP tactical unit's raid on the Nuke laboratory in the mud factory. This sequence represents a rare depiction of the character manually reloading the series' primary weapon system.
- #010
For the scene in which technicians reprogram the cyborg, the production team used a standard braided stainless steel water supply line, typically found in toilet or sink installations, as the data transmission cable. The prop includes visible adhesive tape wrapped around parts of the braid to alter its metallic texture for camera.
- #011
The character Hob was widely condemned by critics. Roger Ebert wrote: "Among Cain's helpers is a vicious, foul-mouthed young kid (Gabriel Damon) who looks about 12, but kills people without remorse, swears like Eddie Murphy, and eventually takes over the drug business. I hesitate to say that the little creep is shoehorned into this R-rated movie so that kids will have someone to identify with when they see it on video, but stranger things have happened."
- #012
For the point-of-view sequences, graphic designers used different operating system aesthetics to differentiate the two cyborgs. RoboCop (Alex Murphy) has a text-based interface modeled on MS-DOS, displaying command lines and file structures consistent with late-1980s IBM PC compatibles. RoboCop 2 (Cain), by contrast, uses a graphical user interface (GUI) imitating the contemporary Macintosh operating system. The production team replaced the standard Apple logo with a stylized skull icon to reflect the character's criminal personality.
- #013
During the digital candidate scan conducted by Dr. Juliette Faxx, the first death row inmate appears, identified as Gerber.
- #014
The digital screen during the reprogramming sequence includes "Directive 262: Avoid Orion Meetings." Orion Pictures served as the film's production and distribution company. The inclusion of this directive functions as an in-joke about the contentious relationship between the studio and the production team, particularly the numerous script revisions demanded by Orion executives during development.
- #015
The design of RoboCop 2/RoboCain had already begun before the full script was written. Craig Hayes designed RoboCain around the idea that he would seem nearly unmatched and contain so many complex parts that audiences could not make sense of him. The initial design was inherently more animalistic, but original director Tim Hunter insisted on a more anthropomorphic look, believing that people still create the worst monsters. The final design was meant to look like a mix of 'an angry bodybuilder' and a medieval knight, and had so many features that it would be nearly the robotic equivalent of a Swiss Army knife.
- #016
After the success of RoboCop (1987), the studio immediately approached director Paul Verhoeven and original screenwriters Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner about a possible sequel. According to Verhoeven, he did not want to make the kind of sequel the studio had in mind. He felt that moving ahead with ideas that quickly would feel like trying to cash in on the first film, and he only wanted to make a sequel if it was original and innovative. Neumeier and Miner had already submitted a very rough draft titled "RoboCop: Corporate Wars." In this draft, RoboCop would initially be shot with a cannon and reduced to metallic dust. He would be resurrected 25 years later in a far more dystopian future and become a pawn in the struggle between a very powerful corporation, the government and an impoverished population. At one point RoboCop would have a love interest in the form of a Neurobrain to make him even more human. The studio liked the idea but gave the writers a tight deadline to write the full script, and they felt they could not meet it. Verhoeven also went on to make Total Recall (1990), but ultimately felt the studio should be patient and that Neumeier and Miner's sequel idea was far superior to the finished film. A new script was written by Frank Miller and Walon Green, but the plot also contains lines from the original script and early drafts of the first film that were never filmed. In 2019 it was announced that Neumeier and Miner's rough draft would form the basis of RoboCop Returns, an alternative sequel to RoboCop (1987) that ignores RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3 (1993).
- #017
The production used a Commodore Amiga 2000 equipped with the NewTek Video Toaster to create the on-screen monitor graphics and interface animations. The hardware generated digital displays for the RoboCop point-of-view sequences and the OCP mainframe terminals. This setup made real-time video manipulation and character generation possible during the 1990 production.
- #018
The city of Detroit, which OCP owns in its entirety in the film, is portrayed as a cash-strapped city — life imitating art, the city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy on July 18, 2013, with an estimated debt of 18 to 20 billion dollars.
- #019
The lunchbox gun used by Hob was not created for the film. It is a real firearm called the DEB M21, originally designed by Utah Connor as the UC-9 and renamed after Connor's collaboration with David E. Boatman to produce the weapon on a larger scale. Utah Connor designed the gun as a concealable submachine gun that folds into a small, ordinary box and can be fitted with more mundane-looking accessories so it appears to be less of a firearm. Its blue exterior and antenna give the weapon the look of a personal radio, intended to fool unsuspecting police officers unaware that Hob is a young drug lord.
- #020
The conflict scene in the nuclear laboratories is the Budweiser brewery. The same setting was used for various engineering areas of the Enterprise in Star Trek (2009).
- #021
Among the films released in 1990, RoboCop 2 had the second-highest body count, with 58 deaths. The highest figure belonged to Die Hard 2 (1990), which caused 162 deaths.
- #022
The Nuke drug vials featured throughout the production were redesigned saline re-moisturizing bottles for contact lens users. These particular dispensers, common in the late 1980s and early 1990s, used a design in which a small needle or applicator tip became visible once the user removed the protective outer coating. Members of the production team used red dye to color the solution for the drug's "Red Ramrod" variety.
- #023
Michael Medeiros, who played 'Catzo' (the Elvis-looking member of the gang), recalls that Irvin Kershner literally tore pages out of the script every morning while screenwriter Frank Miller watched sorrowfully, calling it terrible.
- #024
The sequence in which RoboCop shoots a sniper through his own scope references a 1967 encounter during the Vietnam War reported to have involved Marine Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock. While hunting an NVA sniper nicknamed Cobra, Hathcock saw a glint of light in the bushes and fired his Winchester Model 70, sending a .30-06 round into the enemy's line of sight. A similar feat was depicted in Saving Private Ryan (1998) (at about 46 minutes), where Private Jackson (Barry Pepper) eliminates a German sniper in a church bell tower using an M1903A4 Springfield. The feasibility of the scope shot was tested in the "Saving Private Ryan Special" episode of the television series MythBusters (2003) (at about 48 minutes). Initially unable to shoot through a scope with period-accurate standard 168-grain ammunition, the production team achieved a direct hit using armor-piercing ammunition. The experiment concluded that although the shot is ballistically possible, it requires special alignment of the optical elements and high-velocity rounds to prevent the bullet from deflecting off the internal glass lenses.
- #025
Frank Miller came to the set every day during filming even though he was not obliged to.
- #026
Many scenes were cut from the film for various reasons: RoboCop walks through the police station locker room, sees a naked female officer taking a shower, watches her for a few seconds and then walks away. A hallucination scene in which RoboCop, after being torn apart by Cain's men, imagines visiting his own grave. Several scenes that better explained Cain's character, including one in which he and Angie visit Dr. Faxx to discuss robotics, thus planting the seed of the candidate most likely to donate to the construction of RoboCop 2. In the same removed scene, Cain confronts a RoboCop model in OCP's reception area. A long scene in which the store owner robbed by the baseball team's kids yells at RoboCop for letting them escape, RoboCop grabs him by the throat, says a few words about the store owner's "harsh value judgment" and then drops him to the ground. During the shootout between Cain's gang and the police in the warehouse, there was originally a knife fight between Catzo (known among the film's fans as Cain's right-hand man, known as "Elvis Guy") and Lewis, which ended with Lewis killing him. A scene in which RoboCop learns that Cain is inside the RoboCop 2 cyborg, interfacing with Dr. Faxx's computer and examining her files. Also, as in the first film, some scenes were cut to avoid an X rating from the MPAA. Although a workprint version containing some of the deleted scenes exists, an uncut version of the film containing all the deleted scenes never existed.
- #027
For the press conference featuring Mayor Kuzak, the production used the east entrance of the Houston City Hall building at 901 Bagby Street. Although the film is set in Detroit, director Irvin Kershner chose Houston for the first shoot because of its modern architecture and the absence of precipitation during the winter season in late 1989. The big finale takes place at the Wortham Center, located at 501 Texas Avenue in the Houston Theater District. Over a two-week period, the production team shot on Smith Street between the Wortham Center and the Alley Theatre, from sunset to dawn.
- #028
The pilot episode of RoboCop (1994) came from the first draft of RoboCop 2 (1990), written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner.
- #029
The device RoboCain uses to cut through RoboCop's helmet in the final battle is actually a spot welding machine used in automobile manufacturing.
- #030
Although Frank Miller's original script was heavily rewritten by Walon Green and Irvin Kershner, much of the story outline actually remained in the finished film. These include: the opening scene; the character Hob (Gabriel Damon); the corrupt police officer; villains who employ underage criminals; failed attempts to convert more police officers into RoboCops; OCP's attempts to take over Detroit and the mayor's strategies to prevent it (first through a fundraiser, then through a deal with criminals); RoboCop's dismemberment, his personality change and his subsequent reboot. Major action scenes were also in Miller's script. Scenes written during the rewrites include: in Miller's draft, Cain is called Kong and has far more screen time. Kong even promotes the Nuke drug in a TV interview. He is far more dreamlike and messianic than in the finished film; he even visits Dr. Faxx at one point while she gives a presentation of OCP products. Kong sees her as a Virgin Mary-style figure, while Faxx is impressed by Kong's intelligence and immoral personality. She gradually becomes convinced that Cain would be the perfect subject for the new RoboCop project, so she actively tries to interfere with Murphy's systems to make him malfunction. Kong fights RoboCop not with a van but with a large attack helicopter (falling and bringing him to the brink of death). Although Hob betrays him, Angie stays with Kong, but Kong (after becoming RoboCain) still dies when Faxx forces him to kill her. Kong later kills Hob by tearing him apart during his attack on the warehouse. Murphy and Lewis raid Faxx's office and learn RoboCain's identity. At the climax, Faxx tries to make Kong kill Lewis, but Kong kills Faxx when she tries to shut him down. In the finale, RoboCop and RoboCain are attacked by two ED-209 droids. RoboCain activates both, giving RoboCop a chance to transfer to RoboCain. There was also much more explanation of Murphy's struggle between his human and machine sides; he meets his wife, who asks him to free himself from their marriage; this also forces Murphy to agree to give up his humanity; he becomes pure OCP property, meaning he gives up all future contact with his son. In the end, he receives a fan letter from his son (who does not know RoboCop is his father), which once again renews his faith in humanity.
- #031
The script was constantly rewritten, and the actors often received their lines only 10 minutes before the scenes were shot.
- #032
Producer Jon Davison and director Paul Verhoeven turned down initial offers to return for the sequel. Jon Davison only accepted the production role after his involvement with Dick Tracy (1990) ended. Original screenwriters Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner left the production to develop another project. Jon Davison then hired comic book writer Frank Miller to draft the script. Orion Pictures kept the fixed summer 1990 premiere date despite the primary production delays. Tim Hunter joined the project as director and collaborated with Frank Miller on script revisions a few weeks before the planned start of filming. Orion Pictures executives demanded an extensive rewrite of the script during pre-production. The studio contracted experienced screenwriter Walon Green, known for The Wild Bunch (1969), to carry out an extensive revision of the existing script. Tim Hunter resigned from the directing job because of the restrictive production deadlines. Jon Davison brought in Irvin Kershner as a replacement director one week before principal photography began.
- #033
Miniature stop motion models of RoboCop 2/RoboCain were used for most of the filming. Eight separate miniature teams had to work around the clock to meet the tight production schedule. For close-ups, a full-size head and torso weighing nearly 800 pounds were built. They were operated by operators dressed entirely in black, using long poles attached to the areas that needed to move, so that they would not appear on screen.
- #034
The brain removal scene was director Irvin Kershner's favorite part of the shoot.
- #035
During the gun store robbery, a rare Beretta 93R can be seen hanging on the slings along with its stock and foregrip. This is the model that was modified to become RoboCop's Auto 9 pistol. One of Hob's thugs later points it at Mayor Kuzak.
- #036
Peter Weller had to be persuaded to return as RoboCop because he hated working in the suit.
- #037
Belinda Bauer, who played Dr. Faxx, later earned a doctorate in psychology in real life.
- #038
Director Alex Cox was asked to direct RoboCop 2 (1990) but turned it down and did not much like Frank Miller's original script. In an interview with The Guardian, Cox said: "Miller was always like that. I was asked to direct his script for ROBOCOP 2 and turned it down. Unlike the original ROBOCOP, which walked a line between right-wing politics and left-wing irony, Miller's script was reactionary and disgusting, pitting the robot cop hero against the homeless. No wonder it's so popular in Hollywood centers."
- #039
For the film's main promotional trailer, the production used footage from the robbery scene at the opening of the gun shop. This sequence contains alternative takes and different camera angles compared with the final theatrical cut of the scene.
- #040
Second unit crews filmed the scene in which a fire hydrant leaks on Andrews Street in the Freedmen's Town National Historic District of Houston's Fourth Ward. The production chose this particular corridor for its preserved 19th-century red brick paving, which contrasts with the modern glass architecture of the Houston skyline visible in the background. Saint James United Methodist Church, located at the corner of Wilson Street and Andrews Street, appears prominently in the sequence.
- #041
RoboCop kills 12 people over the course of the film.
- #042
Whenever Johnson and the 'Old Man' walk down a corridor together, they step in perfect unison, with each man's hands in the same position (right hand clasped over left).
- #043
For the Omni Consumer Products (OCP) presentation, the production staff used TC Energy Center at 700 Louisiana Street in Houston, Texas, as a component of the Delta City architectural model. During filming, the building — previously known as the Bank of America Center and RepublicBank Center — appears as a red granite structure with a distinctive three-gabled roofline and Gothic-inspired towers. Architect Philip Johnson designed the 56-story skyscraper, which the production integrated into the miniature cityscape to represent New Detroit's futuristic skyline.
- #044
Before animation began, the various Robocain puppets had to be 'tuned' each day, which involved going over every joint and adjusting the tension, which was always different depending on which animator was using it. There were also slightly looser joints toward the end of each limb, so that the hands could be moved without disturbing the rest of the limb.
- #045
While RoboCop examines Cain's hideout and art collection, among the images of Mother Teresa and Elvis's dried corpse is a photograph of Oliver North, who testified before Congress during the Iran-Contra scandal.
- #046
The villain in Frank Miller's original script was named Kong; his personality closely resembled the supervillain Nuke, whom Miller and David Mazzucchelli created during their work on Daredevil. After the script was changed, the villain became Cain, a drug lord who manufactures a drug called Nuke.
- #047
Ellen Murphy's name appears for the first time in the final installment of the RoboCop film series. In RoboCop (1987) she is listed as "Murphy's wife."
- #048
Comic book writer Alan Moore turned down the first offer to write the sequel's screenplay before the production team approached Frank Miller.
- #049
One of the first shooting scripts, written by Walon Green with contributions from Irvin Kershner, contained elements missing from the finished film. Many of these elements were retained from Frank Miller's original script. In this shooting script, Cain is still called "Kong." He is highly intelligent but also wildly hallucinatory. He sees himself as the Jesus of the present day and constantly reads religious texts (he even openly kills one of his followers who dares to disturb him during one of his prayers). Cain wants to kill RoboCop/Murphy because he regards the immortal RoboCop as a blasphemy against God. Murphy's emotional struggle is far more detailed, and his partner Lewis is vital to his preservation of his humanity. Murphy actually learns that OCP is trying to kill the Mayor and intervenes immediately (though he arrives too late and finds everyone dead except Hob). This version also makes it much clearer that Dr. Faxx wants to get rid of RoboCop/Murphy as well. She deliberately feeds him bad data in the hope that it will cause him to malfunction, and even programs RoboCain to kill Murphy for her (RoboCain's original purpose is to protect Delta City construction workers from angry citizens). This backfires when RoboCain eventually kills her after she tries to shut him down. The ending still includes Miller's finale, in which RoboCop and RoboCain are attacked by two ED-209s. RoboCain fights both and destroys them; RoboCop uses this distraction to seize the Nuke container, and the scene then ends as it does in the film.
- #050
The OCP flag on the skyscraper has a Nazi color scheme: a red background, a white circle and a black logo.
- #051
During the meeting in which the city councilman sells out the mayor, there is a framed photograph on the Old Man's desk of himself standing next to Ronald Reagan.
- #052
The final battle scene shows RoboCop jumping onto RoboCain's back, accessing vital parts and tearing them apart. This scene is almost copied in the final battle scene of Iron Man (2008), in which Iron Man jumps onto Iron Monger/Obediah Stane's back, accesses vital parts and tears them apart.
- #053
According to Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2' (2017), Galyn Görg was offered the lead role in an Elektra film proposed by co-writer and character creator Frank Miller. The project never came to fruition.
- #054
In his first script drafts, screenwriter Frank Miller conceived the character of Dr. Juliette Faxx, played by Patricia Charbonneau, as a man named Margaret Love. Director Irvin Kershner oversaw the gender revision during pre-production in order to change the interpersonal dynamic between the doctor and the OCP President. Miller later restored the character to his original conceptualization and narrative arc in the comic book adaptation Miller's RoboCop, published in 2003.
- #055
Development on the film began three weeks after the first film's premiere.
- #056
Peter Weller and Patricia Charbonneau had previously played both lawyers and lovers in Shakedown (1988). In this film they are reunited as the main character and a technician. In Ed Naha's novelization, Charbonneau's character was named Linda Garcia, and in the film 'Garcia' appears on her name tag.
- #057
Mark Irwin was the cinematographer on this film. Irvin Kershner's previous film, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), was shot by Peter Suschitzky. Both men worked for director David Cronenberg. Irwin shot all of Cronenberg's films, including The Fly (1986). Because of a scheduling conflict, Irwin was unavailable for Dead Ringers (1988). Suschitzky was hired in his place and went on to shoot all of Cronenberg's subsequent films. However, Irwin and Cronenberg still appeared to be on good terms around the time this film was shot. While in production, Peter Weller struck up a conversation with him and asked what Cronenberg was working on. Irwin told him it was Naked Lunch (1991). A fan of the novel, Weller successfully lobbied for Cronenberg to cast him in the film. The schedule of this film conflicted with that of RoboCop 3 (1993) and caused Weller to drop out of the role.
- #058
The film's TV commercials carried the tagline "Maximum Thrash." However, this was never an official tagline or subtitle for the film.
- #059
Irvin Kershner finished the film five days ahead of schedule.
- #060
The film's production company, Tobor, is "Robot" spelled backwards.
- #061
A puppet of Tom Noonan was made for the scene in which Cain's brain is removed.
- #062
The song the violinist/acrobat plays in the charity campaign scene is Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild."
- #063
It was the third direct sequel Irvin Kershner directed, after The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
- #064
Although Peter Weller had broken up with his girlfriend during shooting, he still had a good time making the film and enjoyed working with Irvin Kershner.
- #065
In the original score, there is a repeated motif of a four-note figure followed by horns rising on screen, which is almost identical to the main musical motif used in the 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings. In fact, both original pieces were written by Leonard Rosenman.
- #066
While being reprogrammed by Dr. Faxx, RoboCop identifies himself as "RoboCop: Crime Prevention Unit." The abbreviation of that designation is "CPU," which is also the abbreviation of "Central Processing Unit," the brain of a computer.
- #067
In RoboCop (1987), Jimmy Murphy was played by Jason Levine and appeared only in flashbacks; in this film he is played by Clinton Austin Shirley and appears on screen.
- #068
At the start of the scene, as Hob hands out Nuke and money to people, a young man is seen leaving the arcade and walking down the stairs. Seconds later, the same person is seen in the arcade receiving Nuke from Hob.
- #069
Peter Weller had previously appeared in Shakedown (1988), released a year after RoboCop (1987), in which he played a New York City district attorney who defends a suspected drug dealer and shoots a corrupt undercover police officer. In RoboCop 2, Weller plays a cyborg battling the drug lord Cain. As a law officer, he is nearly killed (torn completely apart) on Cain's orders and also fights a corrupt group of OCP officers and executives.
- #070
A close-up of RoboCop's unmasked face.
- #071
This is one of only three films in which Ellen Murphy appears in the flesh, not solely in flashback and hallucination scenes.
- #072
The designers of Robocain were bothered that bootleg models of ED-209 were released so soon after RoboCop and deliberately made the Robocain models very complex. The stop-motion propeller was built using various model kits, miniature motorcycle parts and many small custom pieces. Most of the parts on either side of the model are asymmetrical. At least four miniature stop-motion sets are known to have been made for Robocain, and they are in private collections.
- #073
Following the success of Pathfinder (1987), Orion Pictures first offered the directing position to Norwegian director Nils Gaup. Gaup turned down the project before the studio hired Irvin Kershner to direct.
- #074
The full-size Robocain's machine gun was rotated by a Dremel rotary tool mounted inside the armature.
- #075
RoboCop 2 (1990) is an American science fiction action film directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Frank Miller and Walon Green. It stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan and Gabriel Damon. It is the sequel to the original film RoboCop (1987), the second film in the RoboCop series, and the last film in which Weller appeared as RoboCop until he returned in Mortal Kombat 11 (2019), RoboCop: Rogue City (2023) and other media. It was the last film Kershner directed before his death in 2010.
- #076
RoboCop 2 (1990) was filmed mainly in Houston. Irvin Kershner said Houston was an ideal location because the city center is relatively quiet at night. He also noted that they shot in winter, arguing that snow and rain would be unsuitable weather for filmmaking. Jefferson Davis Hospital was used as the site of the Nuke production facility; it also served as the exterior of the police station. The film's finale was shot in the Houston Theater District near the Wortham Theater Center and the Alley Theatre. Cullen Center was portrayed as the headquarters of Omni Consumer Products. Houston City Hall was shown in a scene in which Mayor Kuzak speaks to the press. The George R. Brown Convention Center and the Bank of America Center also appeared in the film. Additional footage was shot at the decommissioned Hiram Clarke Power Plant.
- #077
RoboCop 2 was also a novel by Ed Naha.
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