RoboCop (franchise) "they need a husband... and a father. I cannot be that. But I can protect them." RoboCop appears in "RoboCop: Prime Directives" played by Page Fletcher. The series takes place ten years after "RoboCop", RoboCop has become outdated, tired, and quasi-suicidal. Delta City (formerly Detroit) is now considered the safest place on Earth, and he is no longer viewed as particularly necessary. The first half of the series focuses on Alex Murphy's former partner, John T. Cable, who is slain by RoboCop due to his system being hacked and being programmed to terminate Cable. Cable is then resurrected as a
RoboCop 1000 Movies Ever Made". AMC Filmsite.org and Film.com rated it as one of the best films of 1987. The film was on the ballot for two of the American Film Institute's "100 Series" lists. These included "100 Years…100 Thrills", a list of America's most heart-pounding films, and AFI's "Ten Top Ten", a list of the best 10 films in 10 "classic" American film genres. "RoboCop" was a candidate in the science fiction category. At its release, British director Ken Russell said that this was the best science fiction film since Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927). In a 2013 interview, Edward Neumeier