RoboCop 3 RoboCop 3 RoboCop 3 is a 1993 American cyberpunk action film directed by Fred Dekker and written by Frank Miller and Dekker. It is the second sequel to "RoboCop" (1987), after "RoboCop 2" (1990). Set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, the plot centers around RoboCop (Robert John Burke) as he vows to avenge the death of his partner Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) and tries to save Detroit from falling into chaos. It was filmed in Atlanta, Georgia. Most of the buildings seen in the film were slated for demolition to make way for facilities for
RoboCop reflected on how the film's script is starting to play into reality: "We are now living in the world that I was proposing in "RoboCop" … how big corporations will 'take care of us' and … how they won't." Two of the primary themes explored by "RoboCop" are the media and human nature. On the Criterion Edition DVD commentary track, executive producer Jon Davison and writer Edward Neumeier both relate the film to the decay of American industry from the 1970s through the early 1980s, with the abandoned "Rust Belt style" factories that RoboCop and Clarence Boddicker's gang use as