The RoboCop TV Series will move forward on Prime Video, as Amazon has added James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring) as the executive producer, Comicbook.com reports. This franchise has tried to create various reboots, the latest being the one coming from Neill Blomkamp (Demonic, District 10).
According to Comicbook.com (via Variety), the series will have Peter Ocko (Moonhaven) as showrunner and, as stated beforehand, Wan as executive producer alongside his company Atomic Monster. Wan has created various horror franchises and recent Aquaman movies. Ocko also will be a writer and executive producer for the series. The other two executive producers include Michael Clear (Mortal Kombat, M3GAN) and Rob Hackett (Swamp Thing, Archive 81) of Atomic Monster.
Amazon was looking into developing various series after it acquired MGM back in 2022. According to Comicbook.com, the series that Amazon was considering developing were RoboCop, Stargate, Legally Blonde, Fame, Barbershop, The Magnificent Seven, Pink Panther and The Thomas Crown Affair.
According to Comicbook.com, in 2018, Blomkamp was called to work on a RoboCop movie, titled RoboCop Returns. A year later, Blomkamp decided to withdraw from the project. In an interview with JoBlo in Aug. 2023, Blomkamp shared the reasons why the movie stopped production.
“That’s the only film that I would have ever done where I would have tried to basically simulate Paul Verhoeven’s (Basic Instinct, Total Recall) directing style,” Blomkamp shared via Comicbook.com. “I wanted it to feel like it was the day after. Like if Dick Jones (Pinocchio, The Lone Ranger) fell out of the window on Monday, this would have been Tuesday. It was like literally the next morning that it began. So it was a direct sequel exactly in the same style.”
According to Comicbook.com, the first ever movie of RoboCop was released in 1987 and focused on a police officer, named Alex Murphy, portrayed by Peter Weller (Dexter, Longmire). He was injured in a fight in Detroit, so a corporation decided to turn him into a powerful robot named RoboCop. In the future decades various TV shows, movie sequels, and animated series were created, inspired by that film.
If anyone is interested in knowing more information on RoboCop, Comicbook.com has the logline ready to read, as it states, “A giant tech conglomerate collaborates with the local police department to introduce a technologically advanced enforcer to combat rising crime — a police officer who’s part man, part machine.”
There is no confirmation yet from Amazon on possible release or filming dates for RoboCop.