Cardboard ED-209 Shoots Up OCP Board Room in ‘Our RoboCop Remake’
50 filmmakers patched together a remake of the Paul Verhoeven classic, including a giant puppet ED-209 that kills a bunch of other puppets.
David and James Codeglia run Ghostlight, a production studio that works on all types of film projects. They shot a segment for Our RoboCop Remake – a crowd-sourced, scene-by-scene (kind of) retelling of the 1987 classic. They accepted the task of making a life-sized ED-209 puppet for the infamous botched demonstration scene at the start of the movie.
The crew had to engineer a full-size ED-209 puppet that could fit a person and move like the killer bot in the movie. To accomplish this they learned vaccuforming to make specialized parts, painted late into many nights, and invested in a lot of duct tape.
via Ghostlight
The complete scene – starring puppets on a set made mostly of cardboard – is a goofy homage to one of the iconic scenes of 1980s cinema. It’s my favorite sequence in Our RoboCop Remake. That may be because I might be an ED-209 fangirl – so watch for yourself.
Our RoboCop Remake
You can check out the full movie below. The project features a ton of different styles that include hand-drawn animation, musical numbers, and interpretive dance. Yes, you read that right. There are some constants throughout, so you can tell who is who, but don’t expect the ride to be smooth. It is very not safe for work or kids… or anyone, really.
‘Our RoboCop Remake’ is a crowd-sourced film project based on the 1987 Paul Verhoeven classic. Connected through various filmmaking channels (including Channel 101), we’re 50 filmmakers (amateur and professional) from Los Angeles and New York who have split the original RoboCop into individual pieces and have remade the movie ourselves. Not necessarily a shot-for-shot remake but a scene-for-scene retelling. As big fans of the original RoboCop, and as filmmakers and film fans admittedly rolling our eyes at the Hollywood remake machine, we’ve elected to do this remake thing our own way.
