RoboCop is a 1987 American cyberpunk superhero film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller as the title character Themes that make up the basis of RoboCop include transhumanism, media influence, gentrification, corruption, authoritarianism, greed, privatization, capitalism, identity, dystopia, consumerism, surrealism and human nature.