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From Dead Mouse Productions Ltd and Cult Screenings UK Ltd, makers of ‘Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II’ and ‘You’re so cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night’ comes this new documentary ‘RoboDoc’. A fully independent retrospective into the making of ‘RoboCop’ and its cultural impact over the last 30 years. Supported by dozens of the original cast and crew ‘RoboDoc’ is made by fans of the movie for fans of the movie. The crew have already received support from over 20 of the cast and crew as well as the RoboCop Archive and there is no doubt that by the time of production many more key players will be attached and share their amazing stories about one of the iconic movies ever-made.

The documentary is made as a labour of love by a team of ‘RoboCop’ fans, Director Christopher Griffiths states “To say that RoboCop is a big part of my life is an understatement. Just ask anybody who knows me. It is the film that started it all from me at an age when I probably shouldn’t have been watching it like many others, but I did and I have grown up with it and found new things each time I watch it.”

Producer Gary Smart explains “After Leviathan and Brewster, there was only one other cult-classic that we wanted to tackle and that is RoboCop. RoboCop is a movie that I have so many fond memories of watching when I was a child. I vividly remember being enthralled with the story of Alex Murphy and being grossed out, but excited by the amazing special effects.
This project is a labour of love as Chris and Eastwood are die-hard fans of RoboCop and truly are the best people to do the movie justice.”

Creative Producer Eastwood Allen states “RoboCop is a visceral experience like nothing else. It possesses everything that was great about that era of filmmaking, and was way ahead of it’s time. The movie shaped my sensibilities as a film fan, and has remained a solid favourite of mine since I can remember”

The official Facebook page is now live, where you can receive regular updates on the pre-production, production, whose involved and how YOU can support this amazing project! https://www.facebook.com/RoboDoc2017/

Solid Snake

I mean... can there be enough for Robocop 1?

Sure... I'm intrigued cuz it's Robo.

stingermck

Yup, will watch.

james2025a

I would hope its more interesting then Leviathan. I managed to see the 4 hour part on Hellraiser and it was acceptable, but just too much one on one interview, and largely dealing with the more boring aspects of the movie and production. Also it had nothing with Clive Barker or Ashley Lawrence which if you ask me is unforgivable.

islandclaws

^ To be fair, Barker has a hard time speaking so that might explain his lack of involvement.

I'd watch this, sure. I love the film.

TomOpus

Wonder how long this doc is going to run.

james2025a

Yeah the last i saw of him was on the Nightbreed Shout Factory release and he sounded very bad. I had seen over the last 10 years different interviews with him (discussing Abarat in one) and his voice was not the squeaky school boy it used to be. I know he has had a lot of medical problems and almost close to death at times. Its really taking its toll. At one point his neck got all bulky and his face was bright red. I thought he had started taking steroids or something. On the Nightbreed interview he looks in a terrible state.

Solid Snake

Shit had to do w/ his smoking, no? Affected his throat and such... I think that's it.

Wiki had this:

TomOpus

I went to a book signing for the second Abarat book and he sounded pretty rough. He was a trooper. Even after talking about the books and all, he still took the time to talk with each fan.

Ringmaster

I wasn't interested in this at all but the new trailer convinced me.

DJariya

Wow great trailer. That documentary looks awesome. Plus I like that it covers all 3 movies and even the cartoons and TV series.

Apparently Peter Weller declined to participate in it, so all of his interview footage will be from old archived interviews. But they seem to have gotten all the key participants in the movie aside from him in new interviews.

I know the production company that made this is the same one that made the Hellraiser and Fright Night documentaries and they're UK based. So this is probably a UK exclusive release.

GuessWho

I'll buy that for a dollar!

OldBoy

i'd get this on one of the streaming service...

GoldenJCJ

No participation from Peter Weller?

asianxcore

The Trailer was great. I need to this!

DJariya

He declined to participate.

GoldenJCJ

Well ain't that a kick in the nuts.

d2cheer

What a dumb shit he would be noting without that movie. Probably got sick of only being associated with it. Basically done nothing since.

robin2099

In his defense though, he could just be tired of talking about it and has nothing more that he can really say that hasn't already been said. I do think that him not participating though sucks, and it does leave a rather big hole in the documentary.

DVD Josh

I sort of agree that there is really nothing more that can be said at this point, but it would have been nice for him to participate.

You could make a pretty good argument that Robocop was the ONLY thing of true note Weller ever did.

mndtrp

His participation in the Buckaroo Banzai documentary was next to useless. He mostly just kept repeating how great of an experience it was, how cool/nice someone else was, that's it. I don't recall anything interesting, any stories, any experiences, nothing that didn't sound even remotely unique.

DJariya

Weller has transitioned to directing for TV these days.

But, acting wise, he hasn't really done anything of note in the last 25-30 years aside from mostly B movies and guest starring in TV.

As I mentioned earlier, I read they will be using old archived interviews of Weller. So at least we're getting something from him even though it isn't current. I've seen a lot of these newer produced retrospective documentaries use archived interviews. Diane Lane didn't participate in the new Streets of Fire documentary on the Shout BD, but they used old interviews of her from 1983.

I'm sure they'll use EPK interviews of Weller from the time of filming.

DJariya

Big update

DJariya

Promo with Weller

OldBoy

that's fucking awesome!!!! buy in a heartbeat!!! do we know about when? maybe?