{"id":12997,"date":"2015-07-21T05:15:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12997"},"modified":"2015-07-10T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T20:41:07","slug":"halt-citizen-15-facts-about-robocop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12997","title":{"rendered":"Halt Citizen! 15 Facts About &#8220;Robocop&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z072115robocop_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jake Rossen<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a> present <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/65229\/halt-citizen-15-facts-about-robocop\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Halt Citizen! 15 Facts About <em>Robocop<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>7. Weller Refused to Answer to His Real Name.<\/strong><br \/>\nAccording to co-star Miguel Ferrer, Weller instructed the producers to issue a memo to the cast and crew advising that no one should refer to him by his real name: he preferred to be called by his character\u2019s name, Murphy, or \u201cRobo.\u201d Ferrer went on to say that, having known Weller for years prior to the film, he enjoyed greeting him with \u201cHey, Pete.\u201d Weller ignored him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>3. Stan Lee Turned It Down.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1984, Neumeier decided to see if he could spin the <em>RoboCop<\/em> script into a comic book to use as a launching pad for a feature. He ran the idea by Stan Lee; before Lee could commit one way or the other, he and Neumeier attended an early screening of <em>The Terminator,<\/em> which also had a humanoid as the main character. An impressed Lee told the writer, \u201cBoy, you\u2019re never going to top that!\u201d and passed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>11. Some of the Actors Got Unsolicited Stunt Pay.<\/strong><br \/>\nKurtwood Smith and Ray Wise had been standing in such close proximity to a building explosion that the production\u2014without any sense of humor\u2014paid both men for \u201cstunt work,\u201d which amounted to roughly $400 apiece for the scene. But the actors didn\u2019t feel their pay justified the risk to their life: neither was aware the explosion would be that big, and Smith\u2019s coat ended up catching on fire.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Rossen and Mental_Floss present Halt Citizen! 15 Facts About Robocop. Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 7. Weller Refused<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12998,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12997\/revisions\/12998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}