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Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Jul 21
Amazon MGM Greenlights 8-Episode RoboCop Series for Prime Video
Updated
Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Jul 21

Amazon MGM Greenlights 8-Episode RoboCop Series for Prime Video

3 articles · Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Jul 21

Summary

  • Amazon MGM Studios has formally ordered an eight-episode RoboCop series for Prime Video, moving ahead three years after the project was first announced in development.
  • Peter Ocko will serve as showrunner, with James Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett executive producing through Blumhouse Atomic Monster; original co-creator Ed Neumeier is also attached.
  • The studio framed the 1987 franchise revival around themes of corporate greed, privatization, technology and identity, arguing those ideas are newly urgent for a modern TV audience.
  • RoboCop has seen several earlier expansions — including 1990 and 1993 sequels, 1994 and 2001 TV projects, and a 2014 film reboot — but Amazon is betting a serialized take can reach a new generation.

Insights

Can Blumhouse's lean budget model deliver the high-tech dystopian world that the RoboCop franchise demands?
How will the new series update its satire for a world where corporate power has surpassed 80s fiction?