RoboCop (franchise) The franchise has made over US$100 million worldwide and a fourth installment, a remake serving as a reboot titled "RoboCop," was released in February 2014. RoboCop is a 1987 American cyberpunk action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, "RoboCop" centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop". The film features Peter Weller, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Nancy Allen, Miguel Ferrer, and Ronny Cox. In addition to being an action film, "RoboCop" includes larger themes regarding the media, resurrection, gentrification, corruption,
RoboCop (comics) "Frank Miller's Robocop". BOOM! Studios released their own trade paperback of the series under the name "RoboCop Volume One", which was larger in size and featured some black and white sketches as additional material. Last Stand is an eight issue mini-series written by Steven Grant, adapting Frank Miller's original screenplay to "RoboCop 3". The first four issues have been collected in trade paperback. The last four issues were published in trade paperback in December 2014. Boom published four one-shot comics set in the 2014 film reboot universe. These were collected in a trade paperback under the banner title "RoboCop: The