- Title
- Robocop
- AKA
- Robocop: O batsos robot (Greece)
- Year of Film
- 1987
- Director
- Paul Verhoeven
- Origin of Film
- USA
- Type of Poster
- One sheet
- Style of Poster
- --
- Origin of Poster
- Turkey
- Year of Poster
- 1988
- Designer
- Unknown
- Artist
- Omer Muz
- Size (inches)
- 26 6/16" x 39 5/16"
- SS or DS
- SS
- Tagline
- --
Unique artwork by Omer Muz features on this Turkish one sheet for Paul Verhoeven‘s sci-fi masterpiece, Robocop. Set in a dystopian future Detroit where organised crime is rampant and the city is close to financial ruin, the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products enters into an agreement with the city to run the police force and plans to introduce a robotic enforcer to work alongside the human officers. When tests with a weaponised droid called ED-209 go awry and an OCP junior executive is killed, the chairman agrees to back the plans of Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer), another OCP executive with designs for a cyborg (half-man, half-machine) cop.
Shortly after, veteran officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is brutally attacked and effectively killed on his first patrol at a new precinct and Morton sees him as the perfect candidate for his Robocop program. OCP quickly goes about transforming his ravaged body into the future of law enforcement, but when he reawakens Murphy initially struggles with his transformation and loss of his family. Soon he sets about avenging his ‘death’ at the hands of crime boss Clarence Bodicker (an unforgettable performance from Kurtwood Smith) and attacks the corruption that is destroying Detroit, which leads all the way to the boardroom of OCP.
Omer Muz is a prolific Turkish artist whose signature appears on many posters from the country but I’ve been unable to find out much about him. If anyone has any details please get in touch.
I have the original art of this poster in my collection and it is simply amazing.