Celebrate the Dallas-Made 'RoboCop' on Its 35th Anniversary With Free Screenings.
This year marks the 35th anniversary of director Paul Verhoeven's science-fiction action epic, which tells a-ish story about a cop named Murphy, played by Peter Weller, who gets killed in the line of duty and is remade by a private military contractor as an unstoppable cyborg. So the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff and the J.
"We still get people coming to go see where it was shot," Burklund says."When I was in City Hall, my office was right off the plaza, and I looked down and could see people taking pictures, and I knew they were taking pictures from thestarts to learn the truth about his human form when he encounters one of the men who killed him — took place at an old gas station at the corner of Ross Avenue and Arts Plaza.
"It left a mark and not necessarily in just a good way but a bad way with the fire department because we blew the hell out of that gas station bigger than anyone expected," Burklund says."They gave us a lot of grief over at the fire department because they didn't trust us. It took a lot of work to get over that."
The film also launched and elevated the careers of local crew members and film artists who got their first shot at working on a big-budget film with ambitious special effects. Dallas sound engineer Robert Wald received an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound for his work on"There are crew members who worked onthat I've worked with my entire career," Burklund says."We had a great crew that got some really good experience andKEEP THE DALLAS OBSERVER FREE...
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