Editing Timecop (section)

==Production==
[[Mike Richardson (publisher)|Mike Richardson]] wrote a three-part story titled "Time Cop: A Man Out of Time" that was included in the launch of the [[Dark Horse Comics]] [[anthology series]] in 1992.<ref name="CBR">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbr.com/adaptations-more-famous-than-original-comics/|title=15 Adaptations More Famous Than The Original Comics |last=Cohen|first=Jason|work=[[CBR.com]]|date=2017-04-20|access-date=2017-06-14}}</ref> Richardson developed the story, while the comic was written by [[Mark Verheiden]] and drawn by [[Ron Randall]]. The comic told a story of Max Walker, a Time Enforcement Commission agent whose wife is implied to be dead (though the circumstances of this are unknown). Max pursues an illegal time traveler robbing a South African diamond mine in the 1930s. After capturing the robber and returning to present time, Walker realizes the timeline has been damaged because the criminal's robotic bodyguard remained in the past and was still active. Walker returns to the 1930s and defeats the robot with the help of a local whom he rewards with a diamond. Returning home, the timeline is largely restored but readers see the local became a political leader who helped end Apartheid.

Richardson and Verheiden then teamed up to write the screenplay for the movie adaptation.<ref name="CBR"/>

{{Blockquote|text=It wasn’t at all planned from the beginning that I would make two films with Jean-Claude Van Damme back-to-back. I was approached to do ''Timecop'', and I loved the auspices. (Producer) Larry Gordon was involved with it; Moshe Diamant was a terrific producer; Sam Raimi was involved... It was a really clever story, and I thought it was a chance to make the best movie Van Damme ever made. I said yes and we made it, and it was clear that it was going to be a hit because it previewed through the roof every time. It’s still his biggest hit. So Universal and Moshe Diamant wanted to team us again as soon as possible, so they put Sudden Death together. There was never any question that we would just do ''Timecop 2''. I would never have agreed to that. The last thing you want to do is repeat yourself. That would be awful.|author=Peter Hyams, Empire Magazine<ref>{{cite web|title=Directors Special: Peter Hyams Goes Film-By-Film|url=http://www.empireonline.com/features/peter-hyams-film-by-film/p7|website=Empire Magazine|date=24 July 2014|access-date=30 July 2014}}</ref>}}