RoboCop 2: Corporate Wars - Script

[Mephisto]

Interesting read, glad it got posted.

Yes folks, I still lurk from time to time. I never forgot this place, spent too many years on it to do that.

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Interesting read, glad it got posted.

Yes folks, I still lurk from time to time. I never forgot this place, spent too many years on it to do that.

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Interesting read, glad it got posted.

Yes folks, I still lurk from time to time. I never forgot this place, spent too many years on it to do that.

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Interesting read, glad it got posted.

Yes folks, I still lurk from time to time. I never forgot this place, spent too many years on it to do that.

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I finished it. And I didn´t get it

I didn´t pay too much attention to every detail, and some quasi-futuristic words doesn´t help either, but I think it was a bizarre screenplay. I can see Ed giving a lot of homages to Blade Runner and Judge Dredd in this one. There are nods to Ridley Scott´s film (doesn´t shock me, as he wanted that feel on Robo1; even this script uses the word replicant in some pages), and RoboCop here talks more like Dredd than Murphy in the previous movie.

There´s something funny as well, and I´d put SPOILER here if someone doesn´t want to know what it was, but Ed & Michael didn´t like Robo with a gunarm in RoboCop 3, but they added a flamethrower and a cannon on both Robohands.

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I finished it. And I didn´t get it

I didn´t pay too much attention to every detail, and some quasi-futuristic words doesn´t help either, but I think it was a bizarre screenplay. I can see Ed giving a lot of homages to Blade Runner and Judge Dredd in this one. There are nods to Ridley Scott´s film (doesn´t shock me, as he wanted that feel on Robo1; even this script uses the word replicant in some pages), and RoboCop here talks more like Dredd than Murphy in the previous movie.

There´s something funny as well, and I´d put SPOILER here if someone doesn´t want to know what it was, but Ed & Michael didn´t like Robo with a gunarm in RoboCop 3, but they added a flamethrower and a cannon on both Robohands.

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I finished it. And I didn´t get it

I didn´t pay too much attention to every detail, and some quasi-futuristic words doesn´t help either, but I think it was a bizarre screenplay. I can see Ed giving a lot of homages to Blade Runner and Judge Dredd in this one. There are nods to Ridley Scott´s film (doesn´t shock me, as he wanted that feel on Robo1; even this script uses the word replicant in some pages), and RoboCop here talks more like Dredd than Murphy in the previous movie.

There´s something funny as well, and I´d put SPOILER here if someone doesn´t want to know what it was, but Ed & Michael didn´t like Robo with a gunarm in RoboCop 3, but they added a flamethrower and a cannon on both Robohands.

[Mephisto]

Even with it's flaws, I'd take the sequel we got over this anyday. Alot of this shit ended up being used in that Canadian Robo TV series anyway.

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Even with it's flaws, I'd take the sequel we got over this anyday. Alot of this shit ended up being used in that Canadian Robo TV series anyway.

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Even with it's flaws, I'd take the sequel we got over this anyday. Alot of this shit ended up being used in that Canadian Robo TV series anyway.

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Even with it's flaws, I'd take the sequel we got over this anyday. Alot of this shit ended up being used in that Canadian Robo TV series anyway.

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[artuditu]

Oh man, I know I said we couldn't judge this being a first draft, but what a huge disappointment... I can't see any potential in there, the concept is just poor from the beginning. I endorse what has been said here: lots of influence from Blade Runner and Judge Dredd, and Robo is a secondary element in the story.

There is just no Murphy at all, the few times Robo appears he is dropping lines as if he was 100% a machine. No character, no motivations, goals or conflicts. All the human element of the first movie is gone, no place here for great acting, neither for the emotional poetry of Poledouris' music.

The main purpose of the writers seems to be the science fiction elements, the futuristic city, they dream of a huge budget, like Blade Runner and Total Recall had, but I don't see any story or characters to justify such an investment, they just were dreaming of how it would visually look, as if it contained everything they couldn't afford in the first movie.

As a fan I can only consider it a sort of curiosity, it has Robo in there, but it doesn't bring anything at all to the story and character we know, it just has no continuity, Robo is not the same and he barely speaks or does anything other than shooting bad guys. Yes, there are a few nods, TV spots and some corporate corruption and strifes, and that is the end of it, as if there were no other powerful themes in the original.

We like to criticize producers, but to be fair, if I was working at Orion at the time I would have been very worried to read this first draft. I wonder if Verhoeven read any of this. He would be obviously interested in the sexbots, but I can't imagine anything else.

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Oh man, I know I said we couldn't judge this being a first draft, but what a huge disappointment... I can't see any potential in there, the concept is just poor from the beginning. I endorse what has been said here: lots of influence from Blade Runner and Judge Dredd, and Robo is a secondary element in the story.

There is just no Murphy at all, the few times Robo appears he is dropping lines as if he was 100% a machine. No character, no motivations, goals or conflicts. All the human element of the first movie is gone, no place here for great acting, neither for the emotional poetry of Poledouris' music.

The main purpose of the writers seems to be the science fiction elements, the futuristic city, they dream of a huge budget, like Blade Runner and Total Recall had, but I don't see any story or characters to justify such an investment, they just were dreaming of how it would visually look, as if it contained everything they couldn't afford in the first movie.

As a fan I can only consider it a sort of curiosity, it has Robo in there, but it doesn't bring anything at all to the story and character we know, it just has no continuity, Robo is not the same and he barely speaks or does anything other than shooting bad guys. Yes, there are a few nods, TV spots and some corporate corruption and strifes, and that is the end of it, as if there were no other powerful themes in the original.

We like to criticize producers, but to be fair, if I was working at Orion at the time I would have been very worried to read this first draft. I wonder if Verhoeven read any of this. He would be obviously interested in the sexbots, but I can't imagine anything else.

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Oh man, I know I said we couldn't judge this being a first draft, but what a huge disappointment... I can't see any potential in there, the concept is just poor from the beginning. I endorse what has been said here: lots of influence from Blade Runner and Judge Dredd, and Robo is a secondary element in the story.

There is just no Murphy at all, the few times Robo appears he is dropping lines as if he was 100% a machine. No character, no motivations, goals or conflicts. All the human element of the first movie is gone, no place here for great acting, neither for the emotional poetry of Poledouris' music.

The main purpose of the writers seems to be the science fiction elements, the futuristic city, they dream of a huge budget, like Blade Runner and Total Recall had, but I don't see any story or characters to justify such an investment, they just were dreaming of how it would visually look, as if it contained everything they couldn't afford in the first movie.

As a fan I can only consider it a sort of curiosity, it has Robo in there, but it doesn't bring anything at all to the story and character we know, it just has no continuity, Robo is not the same and he barely speaks or does anything other than shooting bad guys. Yes, there are a few nods, TV spots and some corporate corruption and strifes, and that is the end of it, as if there were no other powerful themes in the original.

We like to criticize producers, but to be fair, if I was working at Orion at the time I would have been very worried to read this first draft. I wonder if Verhoeven read any of this. He would be obviously interested in the sexbots, but I can't imagine anything else.

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Oh man, I know I said we couldn't judge this being a first draft, but what a huge disappointment... I can't see any potential in there, the concept is just poor from the beginning. I endorse what has been said here: lots of influence from Blade Runner and Judge Dredd, and Robo is a secondary element in the story.

There is just no Murphy at all, the few times Robo appears he is dropping lines as if he was 100% a machine. No character, no motivations, goals or conflicts. All the human element of the first movie is gone, no place here for great acting, neither for the emotional poetry of Poledouris' music.

The main purpose of the writers seems to be the science fiction elements, the futuristic city, they dream of a huge budget, like Blade Runner and Total Recall had, but I don't see any story or characters to justify such an investment, they just were dreaming of how it would visually look, as if it contained everything they couldn't afford in the first movie.

As a fan I can only consider it a sort of curiosity, it has Robo in there, but it doesn't bring anything at all to the story and character we know, it just has no continuity, Robo is not the same and he barely speaks or does anything other than shooting bad guys. Yes, there are a few nods, TV spots and some corporate corruption and strifes, and that is the end of it, as if there were no other powerful themes in the original.

We like to criticize producers, but to be fair, if I was working at Orion at the time I would have been very worried to read this first draft. I wonder if Verhoeven read any of this. He would be obviously interested in the sexbots, but I can't imagine anything else.

[RoboPimp]

This is a nice acquisition for the archive... I have perused the document and enjoyed the Roborap at the end... no wonder Orion turned down this script. I am not a huge fan of reading scripts though, so could someone write a synopsis? It doesn't have to be super long but I think many of us would benefit from it, and it could be added to the page about it so the casual visitor of the archive can get the gist without reading the whole thing. Anyway, if someone could do this that would be great... if not I'll probably wind up doing it myself at some point.

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This is a nice acquisition for the archive... I have perused the document and enjoyed the Roborap at the end... no wonder Orion turned down this script. I am not a huge fan of reading scripts though, so could someone write a synopsis? It doesn't have to be super long but I think many of us would benefit from it, and it could be added to the page about it so the casual visitor of the archive can get the gist without reading the whole thing. Anyway, if someone could do this that would be great... if not I'll probably wind up doing it myself at some point.

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This is a nice acquisition for the archive... I have perused the document and enjoyed the Roborap at the end... no wonder Orion turned down this script. I am not a huge fan of reading scripts though, so could someone write a synopsis? It doesn't have to be super long but I think many of us would benefit from it, and it could be added to the page about it so the casual visitor of the archive can get the gist without reading the whole thing. Anyway, if someone could do this that would be great... if not I'll probably wind up doing it myself at some point.

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This is a nice acquisition for the archive... I have perused the document and enjoyed the Roborap at the end... no wonder Orion turned down this script. I am not a huge fan of reading scripts though, so could someone write a synopsis? It doesn't have to be super long but I think many of us would benefit from it, and it could be added to the page about it so the casual visitor of the archive can get the gist without reading the whole thing. Anyway, if someone could do this that would be great... if not I'll probably wind up doing it myself at some point.

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[Pewero]

Thank you for the script!
Maybe, one day, we'll read the David Self's one for the reboot too. With Aronofsky involved and knowing his Batman, probably it features a very different RoboCop from what we have seen yet.

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Thank you for the script!
Maybe, one day, we'll read the David Self's one for the reboot too. With Aronofsky involved and knowing his Batman, probably it features a very different RoboCop from what we have seen yet.

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Thank you for the script!
Maybe, one day, we'll read the David Self's one for the reboot too. With Aronofsky involved and knowing his Batman, probably it features a very different RoboCop from what we have seen yet.

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[Pewero]

No, that was written by Joshua Zetumer (that wrote the final movie too) with revisions by Nick Schenk. I was talking about the script written by David Self when the movie was scheduled for 2010, with Darren Aronofsky as director. In 2011 there were rumors about a comic adaptation of it, but nothing happened. It's a shame it didn't leak on the web, it could be a very good read.

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No, that was written by Joshua Zetumer (that wrote the final movie too) with revisions by Nick Schenk. I was talking about the script written by David Self when the movie was scheduled for 2010, with Darren Aronofsky as director. In 2011 there were rumors about a comic adaptation of it, but nothing happened. It's a shame it didn't leak on the web, it could be a very good read.

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No, that was written by Joshua Zetumer (that wrote the final movie too) with revisions by Nick Schenk. I was talking about the script written by David Self when the movie was scheduled for 2010, with Darren Aronofsky as director. In 2011 there were rumors about a comic adaptation of it, but nothing happened. It's a shame it didn't leak on the web, it could be a very good read.

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