RoboCop returns: Prime Video orders new live-action TV series
The eight-episode adaptation will reimagine the iconic cyborg cop for a modern, tech-driven world.
Detroit’s most famous cop (and one of the most iconic figures in modern science fiction) is coming back. Prime Video has announced that Robocop will return as a TV series consisting of eight episodes. The series was greenlit for production after being in development for many years.
The series will feature the franchise’s original co-creator, Ed Neumeier, as executive producer; Peter Ocko as writer, showrunner, and co-executive producer; and James Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett as executive producers through Blumhouse Atomic Monster.
“I’ve been a massive fan of Robocop forever, so getting to help bring this world to television is a dream,” said executive producer James Wan in a statement. “What Paul Verhoeven created in 1987 was decades ahead of its time, and its questions about technology, identity, and who corporations really serve have only grown more urgent. With Peter’s distinctive vision and bold approach to storytelling, and alongside Ed and our partners at Amazon MGM Studios, we’re working to honor what made the original iconic and highlight its relevancy in this modern, tech-driven world, while building something unmistakably new for a global audience.”
Although there aren’t many details about the series at this point, the official logline isn’t far off from what Robocop has been since its 1987 film debut. “A giant tech conglomerate convinces the city to add a powerful robot to its police force—a robot implanted with the consciousness of a beloved, fallen officer.”
A Legacy of Cyborg Justice
This isn’t the first time ‘RoboCop’ has been adapted into a TV series. In 1994, there was ‘RoboCop: The Series’ as well as ‘RoboCop: The Animated Series’, both of which toned down the violence of the movies and drew on only a few elements here and there from the franchise. In 2001, a new miniseries, ‘RoboCop: Prime Directives’, brought the franchise back to its darker roots once again as a live-action series consisting of just four episodes. In 2014, a film reboot directed by José Padilha and starring Joel Kinnaman as Agent Alex Murphy failed to fully win over audiences.
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For now, this new ‘RoboCop’ series does not yet have a release date.
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