After a whopping three years in production, the filmmakers behind RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop have shared an incredible 16-minute-long clip that gets into the nitty-gritty of the film’s most integral and extremely graphic sequences: The brutal and unapologetic death of the Murphy.
In this incredibly detailed clip, the documentary “walks you through the scene second-by-second covering all aspects; from the gross-out special FX of Rob Bottin to the iconic one-liners of the menacing antagonists, utilizing a vast array of materials ranging from never-before-seen rushes, storyboards, and studio notes.”
Click the below to watch the 16-minute long sneak peek!
“This project has been something of an emotional rollercoaster for all of us involved,” co-writer and director, Christopher Griffiths stated in the press release sent to Bloody DIsgusting this morning. “We originally set out to honor one of our all-time favorite movies with a series of interviews and any cool cutaway materials we could find which would ultimately lead to a feature-length documentary. That morphed into approximately 100 interviews across all three movies and the Canadian television series, and some serious trawling through archives to find the most unique and incredible materials that even I had never seen before.”
“We decided to tackle it in a different way from what you’d typically expect from a movie-making retrospective,” added editor and director, Eastwood Allen. “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. If you take the Murphy Death Scene clip here, for example, that’s just one of 40+ scenes. We currently have a 4-hour cut for Robo 1 alone.”
“There is no release date at this time,” Eastwood Allen adds. “We’re (still) deep into editing all of the separate documentary parts (RoboCop, RoboCop 2, RoboCop 3, etc.) We’re trying to incorporate newly found materials whilst continuing to work on the visual effects, compositing and motion graphics.”
No matter, 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.
