"RoboCop" was conceived in the early 1980s by Universal Pictures junior story executive and aspiring screenwriter Edward Neumeier. A fan of robots, science fiction films, such as "Star Wars", and action films, Neumeier had developed an interest in mature comic books while researching them for potential adaptation. The 1982 science fiction film "Blade Runner" was filming on the Warner Bros. lot behind Neumeier's office, and he unofficially joined the production to learn about filmmaking. His work there gave him the idea for "RoboCop"; he said, "I had this vision of a far-distant, "Blade Runner"–type world where there was an all-mechanical cop coming to a sense of real human intelligence". He spent the next few nights writing a 40-page outline.