Let’s talk Robocop. Everyone loves the first movie, but does anyone even like anything that came after? For me, the Robocop series of films and live action TV shows and specials that have followed have always been too grim.
And this is because of one element. Robocop has no future.
He’s a dead cop who has his whole body removed and is just a head on robot body.
The first film can play with the idea of them wiping his memory and him trying to re-find his humanity, but by the end he knows who he is and has stopped the bad guys that originally killed him…but now what?
It’s not like he can still have a happily ever after is it? It’s not like he can get the girl and walk off into the sunset with his wife. He was fully action man with the plastic underpants and trademark logo where his junk used to be.
For me, especially in the decades since Robocop was first made, they could resolve the aspect of the character having no future by having the character be on a personal mission to be made whole again. If there was a way for him to have a new body or have his mind put into a body that would give the character a potential for a future…maybe he finds this opportunity and decides not to pursue it so he can continue to help people or save his family and the opportunity misses him.
If they made a new reboot or a new trilogy or TV series, I think part 1 should follow the idea of showing Murphy get killed and brought back as Robocop, that is mind is wiped and by the end of the movie he should regain his memories, avenge his death and save the day and regain his humanity.
Part two should have him take on a new threat of bad guys, where his family are threatened and he has to protect them, but he should learn of a new technology that has the potential to make him whole again. Some kind of cloning or way to have a human body again and not just be a machine.
In part three he should pursue this technology, and maybe it’s being held from him by politics or ethical debate. He should also face the dilemma that by becoming a man again will mean he cannot help people in the same way as he can as Robocop and perhaps face a decision where he has to make the decision to be Robocop and miss the chance to become whole again.
As a trilogy I’d possibly have it end with him making the greater decision to protect the innocent and have something of a tragic end where he sacrifices himself, but have a tease ending that they could still save his mind and bring him back whole in the future.
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