While researching story submissions for Universal, Neumeier came across a student video by aspiring director Michael Miner. The pair met and discussed their similar concepts, Neumeier's "RoboCop" and Miner's robot-themed rock music video. In a 2014 interview, Miner said he also had an idea called "SuperCop". The pair formed a working partnership and spent about two months discussing the idea, plus two to three months writing together at night and over weekends, outside their regular jobs. Their collaboration was initially difficult because they did not know each other well and had to learn how to constructively criticize each other.