RoboCop: Prime Directives (2000– )

Thirteen years after the original Robocop, Delta City, considered to be "The Safest Place On Earth!", has become a futuristic city owned and operated by OCP, and RoboCop, Alex Murphy has ... See full summary »

Stars:

Page Fletcher, Maurice Dean Wint, Maria del Mar

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Page Fletcher	...	Alex J. Murphy (4 episodes, 2001)
Maurice Dean Wint	...	John Terrence Cable (4 episodes, 2001)
Maria del Mar	...	Sara Cable (4 episodes, 2001)
Anthony Lemke	...	James Murphy (4 episodes, 2001)
Kevin Jubinville	...	Damian Lowe (4 episodes, 2001)
David Fraser	...	Ed Hobley (4 episodes, 2001)
Geraint Wyn Davies	...	David Kaydick (3 episodes, 2001)
Leslie Hope	...	Ann R. Key (3 episodes, 2001)
Rebeka Coles-Budrys	...	Jordan (3 episodes, 2001)
Marni Thompson	...	Abby Normal (2 episodes, 2001)
Françoise Yip	...	Lexx Icon (2 episodes, 2001)
Richard Fitzpatrick	...	Albert Bixler (2 episodes, 2001)
Tedde Moore	...	The Old Woman (CEO) (2 episodes, 2001)

Storyline

Thirteen years after the original Robocop, Delta City, considered to be "The Safest Place On Earth!", has become a futuristic city owned and operated by OCP, and RoboCop, Alex Murphy has begun to feel his age. Murphy finds himself nearly obsolete, and must deal with the fact that his now-grown son James is an OCP executive, unaware that his father is still alive. Also, Murphy's former partner, John Cable, has returned to Delta City as its new Security Commander. But slowly, new enemies arise, and Murphy and Cable begin an investigation into a mysterious villain known as the Bone Machine, unaware that they are coming dangerously close to exposing an evil group of OCP executives known as The Trust... which James Murphy is a part of. Desperate to prevent their sinister plans from being revealed, The Trust programs Murphy to kill John Cable...

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Plot Keywords:

robocop | futuristic | brutal cop | m 16 | pistol | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some violence

Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 July 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

RoboCop: Prime Directives - Crash and Burn

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$8,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Robocop Productions Ltd.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

375 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This mini-series exists outside the continuity established in the RoboCop films. One of the main differences being that while many characters in the film franchise know that Alex Murphy was transformed into RoboCop, in the mini-series, this is a closely guarded secret. Another example of the divergence in continuity would be that in the mini-series, Murphy isn't killed on his first day of active duty in Detroit.

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Goofs

At the end of the second part, Meltdown, this quote is given: "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots." The film credits it to Thoreau, which is impossible, as the word "robot" did not enter the English language until more than sixty years after Thoreau's death. This quote is actually from Erich Fromm.

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Quotes

RoboCable: What are you prepared to do?
James Murphy: Whatever it takes.

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Connections

References Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

User Reviews

Even better than the the cartoon series! (Oh...)

This made for tv four-parter looks so cheap that it is not even funny any more! In the first part we have BONE MACHINE, who looks like an old HE-MAN action figure. He hides his face behind a mask, that even little children wouldn't find scaring on halloween. Oh yes, he's laughing all the time, because that's really menacing. Right. This tv-movie is as bad as ROBOCOP 3

• only that it looks cheaper. But it actually is WAYYYY better than the

cartoon series (which really stinks, by the way). The main problem with the movie is, that the story is not interesting at all. Sometimes ROBOCOP seems nothing more than a sideshow character. Now, they have tried it all: 2 movie sequels, a childish tv-series, 2 animated series and finaly PRIME DIRECTIVES, a mini series, that is quite dark, which is not bad. If they had a decent budget, it could have been a little nicer to watch - despite the lame story. If you think about the original movie, PRIME DIRECTIVES is a shame.