The previously announced RoboCop TV series is starting to be pieced together over at Amazon MGM Studios, with the news that The Leftovers and Office scribe Peter Ocko is on-board as writer, executive producer and showrunner, with James Wan exec-producing under his Atomic Monster banner.
Amazon are sifting through the MGM properties they acquired when they bought the studio back in 2022, developing small-screen spin-offs of Legally Blonde and Poltergeist, and now according to Deadline they are moving forward on a series based on Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 classic Robocop.
The official logline for the RoboCop series reads, “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.”
Robocop starred Peter Weller as Alex Murphy, a cop killed in the line of duty, who is then resurrected as the titular law-enforcement officer, battling bad guys and an existential crisis. A sequel was released in 1990, directed by The Empire Strikes Back‘s Irvin Kershner, before Weller jumped ship for 1993’s lamentable threequel. A short-lived TV series was booted up in 1994, and a Joel Kinnaman-led reboot went rusty at the box-office in 2014.
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