tacknosaddle t1_iuiinkw wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:19 PM

Reply to comment by theRealMrBrownstone in TIL Peter Weller, who played RoboCop, went on to get his Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History and wrote his dissertation about Renaissance artist/philosopher Leon Battista Alberti by kamyizme

He turned down Robocop 3 because he wanted to be in Naked Lunch as he was a big fan of Burroughs (he has a signed first edition of it and says the book had a huge impact on him in the 1960s). When he heard about the project he reached out to them offering his services because he wanted to be in it so badly.

theRealMrBrownstone t1_iuiixhc wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:20 PM

And he read the robocop 3 script and saw that it was shit. Probably.

tacknosaddle t1_iuikzoj wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:34 PM

Probably, but he found out about Naked Lunch while filming Robocop 2 and reached out so it would've been well before that script presumably.

theRealMrBrownstone t1_iuirep9 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:17 PM

I'm sorry for the loss of your sense of humor.

tacknosaddle t1_iuixs8k wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:59 PM

My sense of humor is fine...when there's something funny in scope.