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(Peter Weller, the actor who played the title character, went on to have a career as an A-list actor, spurred on by his two wildly successful characters of Banzai and ''Robocop''; in this reality, the writers/producers retained the tone of the first film in the second and third, as well as keeping the cast as intact as possible and focusing on the plot point of 'Murphy' attempting to come to grips with his 'lost humanity'. ''Robocop 2'', by working this theme in a surprisingly sensitive manner that resonated with critics and moviegoers alike, was lauded as a superior film and was nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award, as well.)
The success of ''Buckaroo Banzai'' (or ''Eighth Dimension'', as the fans refer to it) spawned an equally succesful 1988 sequel - ''Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League'' - and led to the 1992 third film in the series, ''Buckaroo Banzai and The Reel World Marauders''. The fourth film in the series, released in 1996, was ''Buckaroo Banzai And The Forever Voyage'' (By this time, the producers had capitalized on the fact that their films were coming out during Presidential electtion years; starting in 1992, they released the new ''BB'' films on the Friday
The title, ''Buckaroo Banzai Trilogy'', is a play on the similiar collective title attached to the ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' books by Douglas Adams, who is still alive in this universe and has written eight books in the series.
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