Start of Robocop

       Hollywood - Robocop in 2014 is a remake of the 1987 film of the same name.  Robocop evolved from the movie Blade Runner, when writer Edward Neumeier saw a poster for Blade Runner.  When Neumeier asked what the poster was about, a friend told him, "A cop that hunts robots."  Then Neumeier says, "But what if the cop WAS a robot?"  As to how the film made it from the writer's room to Hollywood.  Legend has it that the film's writers were stranded in an airport.  Sitting next to a high-ranking film executive, they passed the time by talking about the screenplay, Robocop, Neumeir and a co-writer were working on.  Robocop was started. 
     The motion picture executive got the film to the studio, and one of the first things to do was determine who would direct the motion picture.  As you might imagine, most directors to attach their names to, and take a risk on, the proposed adventure.  Director, Paul Verhoeven, first threw the script away after one reading.  Paul Verhoeven's wife saw the manuscript in the dumpster, took it out, and  read it.  She realized the script was loaded with imagination and was a new twist on an old theme.  Instead of the creation being human body parts re-assembled like Frankenstein (c.1910).  This version uses a human brain, left over from a terrible accident a donor police officer underwent, to direct the movements of a computerized-machine, a robot. 
   Director Paul Verhoeven, then needed to cast a star to be the futuristic Frankenstein-like, Robocop.  Peter Weller was selected because his slender frame could fit into the armor-looking suit that would be known as, Robocop.  Paul Verhoeven also chose Peter Weller, because he felt the exposed lower face of Peter Weller, the part of his face the helmet doesn't cover in the movie, could adequately express the emotion the cyborg (a being with organic and mechatronic parts) would need. to.  That emotion would be used to continually impart to the audience, that what they are looking at in the motion picture,  is part human and part machine.
     Paul Weller had a slender shape but the suit he was wearing doesn't.  The suit was bulky enough that Weller couldn't fit into a police car.  Therefore, most of  Robocop was filmed with Peter Weller wearing only the top half of his Robot suit.
     During filming the temperature was so intense that, during an interview with Roger Ebert, Weller revealed he would lose three pounds of water weight each day.  That's what happens when you wear an all-metal suit, while filming in Dallas, Texas, in warm weather.  The setting of the motion picture is meant to appear like Detroit, Michigan.  The picture was filmed in Pittsburgh, PA and Dallas, TX.  The production company eventually had to outfit the suit with an internal fan.  See also,  www.mgm.com.