{{Use American English|date = November 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date = November 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Space Cop | image = Space_Cop_Poster.jpg | caption = Promotional release poster | director = {{plain list| * Jay Bauman * Mike Stoklasa }} | producer = {{plain list| * Jay Bauman * Mike Stoklasa }} | screenplay = Mike Stoklasa | story = {{plain list| * Mike Stoklasa * Rich Evans * Jay Bauman }} | starring = {{plain list| * Rich Evans * Mike Stoklasa * Jocelyn Ridgely * Jay Bauman }} | music = Marty Meinerz | cinematography = Jay Bauman | editing = Jay Bauman | distributor = Red Letter Media | released = {{Film date|2016|01|12}} | runtime = 102 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }} '''''Space Cop''''' is a 2016 American science fiction action comedy film directed and produced by Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklasa, written by Stoklasa, Bauman, and Rich Evans, photographed and edited by Bauman, and starring Evans, Stoklasa, Bauman, Jocelyn Ridgely, Chike Johnson, Steve Piper, and Zach McLain. Produced and distributed by Red Letter Media, the film had been in production for at least seven years dating back to 2008.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=http://redlettermedia.com/shorts/space-cop-trailer/|type=Trailer|title=Space Cop Trailer|publisher=Red Letter Media}}</ref>
''Space Cop'' was released on Blu-ray on January 12, 2016, and on digital download on January 30, 2016.
==Premise== Space Cop, a highly disgruntled, impulsive, and destructive police officer from the future of 2058 (the future of space), accidentally travels back in time to 2007 after a pursuit through space causes him to travel through a time rift. He then spends eight years as a member of the Milwaukee Police Department.
After encountering two alien criminals he comes across during a heist at a cryonic storage facility, he is teamed up with a comparatively more methodical and by-the-book police officer from the past who is accidentally unfrozen in the present. They are tasked with apprehending a criminal known as the Gold Digger known for stealing exclusively gold-based items.
However, when they discover that the Gold Digger is in fact a part of a much bigger plan affected by alien lifeforms, they must defeat the evil aliens who threaten the present and the future.
==Cast== {{div col|colwidth=}} * Rich Evans as Space Cop (born Holden Madickey) * Mike Stoklasa as Detective Ted Cooper * Jocelyn Ridgely as Zorba * Chike Johnson as Agnon * Jay Bauman as Grigg * Zack McLain as Charlie * Alison Mary Forbes as Charlie's wife * Dale R. Jackson as Chief Washington * Clarence Aumend as Officer Partner * Rick Pendzich as Officer Cunningham and hostage taker * Patton Oswalt as Space Police Chief (uncredited) * Freddie E. Williams II as Solitaire Man * Len Kabasinski as Space Cop (Stunt Double) * Steve Piper as Timmy’s dad {{div col end}}
==Production== A documentary-style video released on the Red Letter Media channel on YouTube in 2020 features extensive behind-the-scenes material and details on the building and execution of various sets and scenes. As a general rule, only one larger set could be built at any time due to the physical restrictions of the facilities available to production. Additionally, while some digital effects usually related to simple green screens were used, decidedly practical movie tricks also came into play on several occasions. For example, in one scene featuring a pot of boiling water on a stove, the boiling effect had in fact been generated by Rich Evans blowing air through tubes attached to the pot's bottom (to avoid using actual boiling water, for safety).<ref>{{cite AV media|date=May 5, 2020|title=Red Letter Media Behind the Scenes: Space Cop|medium=video|language=en|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnM2Purvp10|access-date=May 7, 2020}}</ref>
==Release and reception== ''Space Cop'' was released straight to Blu-ray on January 12, 2016,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Red Letter Media Space Cop now available on Blu-ray! |url = http://redlettermedia.com/space-cop-now-available-on-blu-ray/|website = redlettermedia.com|access-date = 2016-01-31}}</ref> and on digital download on January 30, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/redlettermedia/status/693456999112130560 |title=''Space Cop digital HD now available'' |publisher=Red Letter Media on Twitter |date=January 30, 2016 |accessdate=February 23, 2018}}</ref>
Mark Varley of Moviepilot wrote that, despite the filmmakers wanting "to make a film that was tongue in cheek...''Space Cop'' was boring and unfunny".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://moviepilot.com/posts/3765179|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123072505/https://moviepilot.com/posts/3765179|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 23, 2018|title=Space Cop Review - Worst of the Worst|author=Mark Varley|date=February 3, 2016|website=Moviepilot|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref> Felix Vasquez Jr. of ''Cinema Crazed'' wrote that the film is "a neat, if flawed, mash up of genres reserved for select movie fans that appreciate this kind of comedy, or have been loyal followers of the Red Letter Media team for years".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinema-crazed.com/blog/2016/04/01/space-cop-2016/|title=Space Cop (2016)|author=Felix Vasquez|date=April 1, 2016|website=Cinema Crazed|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Official website|https://redlettermedia.vhx.tv/products/space-cop-movie-only}} * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnM2Purvp10 Behind the Scenes] * {{IMDb title|3892384}} * [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/space_cop/ Space Cop] on Rotten Tomatoes
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