RoboCop 2 RoboCop 2 RoboCop 2 is a 1990 American cyberpunk action film directed by Irvin Kershner, written by Frank Miller and Walon Green, and starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan and Gabriel Damon. It is the first sequel to the 1987 film, "RoboCop" and the second entry in the "RoboCop" media franchise. Set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, the plot centers around the eponymous RoboCop (Weller) as he becomes in embroiled in a scheme by Omni Consumer Products to bankrupt and take over the city while also fighting the spread of
RoboCop 3 which he responds with, "My friends call me Murphy. You call me RoboCop." The film was directed by Fred Dekker, a director primarily known for cult horror films ("Night of the Creeps", "The Monster Squad"). Popular graphic novelist Frank Miller returned to write the screenplay for the film. Still optimistic that he could make an impression in Hollywood, Miller accepted the job of writing "RoboCop 3", hoping that some of his excised ideas would make it into the second sequel. Major themes of the plot were taken from Miller's original (rejected) draft of "RoboCop 2". Disillusioned after finding that his