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 work was even more drastically altered than before, Miller left Hollywood until the 2005 adaptation of his work Sin City. “[Working on "RoboCop 2" and "3"] I learned the same lesson,” Miller said in 2005. “Don’t be the writer. The director’s got the power. The screenplay is a fire hydrant, and there’s a row of dogs around the block waiting for it.” Miller's original screenplay for "RoboCop 2", and source for major ideas in "Robocop 3", was later turned into a nine-part comic book series called "Frank Miller's RoboCop". The star of the previous films, Peter Weller, did not reprise