A story about the passion of Executive Producer John Davison, the unsung hero who led RoboCop to great success.

The budget doubled due to the success of ``The Terminator''!

Neumayer consulted director Alex Cox, who was his close friend at the time, about the idea of ​​``RoboCop,'' until they had a falling out after the original idea for `` Repo Man '' (1984) was copied without permission. There, he was introduced to Michael Miner, and they hit it off, and the two of them went into film world Fujiko Fujio mode, working together to rewrite and complete the script for RoboCop over and over again. Neumeyer was a fan of science fiction, so he envisioned a near-future story in which cyborgs fight villains, and Minor came up with the idea of ​​an armed robot police officer that could withstand gunfire.

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Miner, who had connections with Davison, a producer who specializes in horror and comedy, talked to him about making RoboCop into a movie, and Davison was so interested that he agreed to produce the film. I had the opportunity to personally talk to Davison in the past, and he told me, "When I read the RoboCop script that Miner gave me, I was convinced that if we incorporated Japanese hero culture, which is different from the American culture of DC Comics and Marvel, it would definitely be a hit."

There were many twists and turns behind the scenes until Verhoeven was finally chosen as director, and Miner, who was in charge of the screenplay, was initially given the job of directing RoboCop. Davison decided to make a sales pitch without even having a director in mind, and brought the script for RoboCop to all the major studios, but Orion Pictures was the only one that would take it. Davison learned filmmaking know-how from Roger Corman, the king of the B-movie world, and from a major studio's point of view, a straight-forward title with no curveballs like ``RoboCop '' would be of no interest to him. However, Orion Pictures accepted Davison's enthusiasm, as James Cameron, who was also a student of Roger Corman, had just made `` The Terminator '' a huge hit in 1984 .

Davison says. "If Cameron, Roger Corman's former colleague, hadn't made ``The Terminator '' a hit at The Terminator , `` RoboCop '' would never have been made. We were able to make money for them, and the executives told us that we could come up with nearly double that amount, and we were able to get enough money to make two The Terminator movies.''

Returning to the above, Miner, who was in charge of the screenplay, was selected as director at the request of Orion Pictures. Minors are given Being There because they have a track record of making independent films and short films, or operating the camera themselves. It is said that the background to this was the carelessness of Orion Pictures' executives. They didn't want ``RoboCop'' to be a hit in the first place, thinking it would be a horribly boring B-movie, one out of every 10 that would be a hit, like Roger Corman's New World Pictures. It's ironic and funny to think that Neumayer and Miner are mirroring the attitudes of those executives to the Omni executives in RoboCop.