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20 Minutes of ‘RoboDoc’ Footage Recounts ‘RoboCop’s Ultra Bloody X-Rated Scene

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After a whopping three years in production, the filmmakers behind RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop have shared with Bloody Disgusting this incredible 20-minute-long clip that takes us back to the infamous ED-209 boardroom carnage scene that initially earned the film an X-rating with the MPAA.

In this incredibly detailed clip from the Christopher Griffiths and Eastwood Allen-directed documentary, the filmmakers detail the design work of the ED-209, the stop motion animation, and the eventual reveal within RoboCop which ends in a record-breaking use of squibs.

Click “play” below to watch the 20-minute long sneak peek!

“Our aim with RoboDoc is to give the fans an experience they’ve never quite seen from a movie-making of,” Allen stated. “To start with, we’re giving them a scene-by-scene analysis of the original RoboCop. We’re covering it all, from concept to execution(s) and we hope everyone from the hardcore Robo-nerds to the casual filmmaking fan will get a kick out of it. This is a complete and comprehensive rundown of the insane and often strained efforts it took to create a science fiction masterpiece.”

‘This is no longer a documentary,” Griffith interjects. “It is an experience. Nothing comes remotely close to the scale of what has been achieved thus far and with that, we realize more and more that we are incredibly short-staffed on post production. [We are] executing at least a five-man job between the two of us as we work our way through the main documentary’s 4 1/2 hours and the sequel documentaries running at 90 minutes apiece. This excludes the features on comics, games and the 1994 series! We’re doing our best to keep fans in the loop and offer up these exclusive previews to showcase just how much effort is going into this.”

Adds producer Gary Smart: “We decided pretty early on that we wanted to at least cover the first three movies. The project has gone from strength to strength with over 100 of the cast and crew from the original trilogy, TV series, game and comic books interviewed. We have delved as deep as we can into everything that has made RoboCop the legacy that it is today.”

There’s even more news to come along with this riveting clip as the filmmakers have announced that they were able to finally speak with RoboCop himself, Peter Weller, at the For the Love of Sci-fi Convention where they hosted his live Q&A panel. While they’re still trying to get him locked in for the feature-length doc, they were able to get some fresh insight from the panel.

“He [Weller] still is very much aware of the project, stating, ‘So I heard this documentary is like 80 hours?!’ followed by, ‘We’ll get this shit sorted and get me on there,’ which of course comes with a price. I still hold out on the slightest hope we can work something out with him and have kept in touch since.”

“We decided to tackle it in a different way from what you’d typically expect from a movie-making retrospective,” Allen had previously explained. “We had accumulated over 40 hours of interview material just for the first movie alone. It was only after going over the footage that we realized we had the material to cover every single scene from RoboCop. I mean specific details dissecting every scene.

“We love the existing RoboCop pieces out there but we’re now in a fortunate position to take fans on a tour through the entire first film, including the film’s origins, assembling the cast, crew, special effects, design, set-stories, and legacy. We currently have a 4-hour cut for Robo 1 alone.”

When this bad boy is finished, it’s going to be nothing short of epic. Watch this spot for new info as it comes in.

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.

Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things),  Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.

The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).

Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.

Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.

Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.

In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.

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