This Is What Peter Weller Has Been Up To Since RoboCop This Is What Peter Weller Has Been Up To Since RoboCop Orion Pictures By Patrick Phillips/May 4, 2021 11:34 pm EDT Somewhere in the middle of the silly sex comedies, socially-conscious dramas, and bombastic "one man against the world" spectacles of the 1980s, Hollywood brought us Paul Verhoeven's "RoboCop," a grueling dystopian actioner about a slaughtered Detroit police officer (Peter Weller) resurrected in the form of the titular half-man, half-machine super-cop. Depicted with reckless, gory abandon and a flair for gritty hyper-reality, "RoboCop" was also one of the few distinctly over-the-top '80s action flicks that didn't shy away from the gun-loving, drug-addled, capitalistic divisions fueling inner-city turmoil across the country. That it did so while becoming a bona fide box office hit seemed to come as a surprise to everyone involved.