2000AD fans will remember the original Hardware. The movie made by Richard Stanley that so gleefully stole its story from a Future Shock in the comic and that ended up with the 2000AD creators Steve Macmanus and Kevin O'Neill getting a credit on the movie and a financial settlement.

Richard Stanley moved onto other projects including Dust Devil. But in 1996 he announced that he had a script prepared for a sequel to Hardware. He was going to use the same homicidal robot from the first one, but set the movie 7 years ahead. This was announced ibn an interview with Fangoria magazine, but he also stated that he would change the title and break any link to the first movie in order to get the movie made. MY question to that would be, could the 2000AD creators not come back to him and accuse him of ripping them off again?

Little was heard of this project again. Stanley then moved on after Dust Devil to start filming The Island Of Dr. Moreau with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer, and I mean started the shoot was less than two weeks under way and he was removed by the studio to be replaced by John Frankenheimer. And as I'm sure you know that movie was awful.

Little has been heard of Stanley since other than two writing jobs for small movies Treasure of Pirate's Point and Fly Boy. I doubt we will ever see a sequel to Hardware this long after the original's release. The project has no cult status and the director has little or no power left to weild in Hollywood after the Dr Moreau debacle.

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