It’s now been ten years since the most recent installment in the RoboCop franchise, that film of course being the 2014 remake, but the property certainly hasn’t gone anywhere in the years since. For starters, video game RoboCop: Rogue City released last year, and the comprehensive documentary series RoboDoc was released onto SCREAMBOX last year as well.
Deadline now reports today that Amazon MGM Studios is moving forward with their planned RoboCop television series, with horror master James Wan on board to executive produce.
Wan will produce through his label Atomic Monster.
Peter Ocko (Lodge 49) has also been brought on board as the writer, executive producer and showrunner on the project, which we originally heard rumblings about back in 2023.
Deadline details, “The series will follow the premise of the films, focusing on a giant tech conglomerate which 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.”
Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
This wouldn’t be the first time RoboCop has gotten his own TV series. After three films in the franchise back in 1994, you may recall, RoboCop debuted on the small screen. Produced by Canada’s Skyvision Entertainment, RoboCop: The Series starred Richard Eden in the title role. An 89-minute pilot aired in two parts in March, followed by 21 one-hour episodes.
On the film front, the most recent RoboCop project to pop up was a planned film titled RoboCop Returns, set to be directed by Abe Forsythe (Little Monsters). That project, however, is likely no more now that Amazon is in charge of the MGM property. The ball is entirely in Amazon’s court at this point, and it sounds like they’re itching to start playing with it.
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