An eight-part RoboCop TV sequence is coming to Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service.
The present is being produced and overseen by Peter Ocko, with James Wan additionally concerned as an govt producer.
The sequence is predicated on the long-running franchise that started with Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 movie. Since then, there have been two live-action RoboCop movie sequels, adopted by a poorly-received reboot in 2014.
There have additionally been two live-action and two animated RoboCop tv sequence previously.
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The sequence is described as “a large tech conglomerate convinces town to put a strong robotic on its police drive – a robotic implanted with the consciousness of a beloved, fallen officer.” That definitely suggests it’s a back-to-basics reboot of your entire RoboCop idea.
At Selection, Peter Friedlander of Amazon MGM Studios stated…
’Robocop’ is a franchise that has meant one thing to audiences for practically 4 a long time — not simply as an motion spectacle, however as a pointy, provocative mirror of our relationship with know-how and energy. Peter Ocko has crafted a imaginative and prescient that honors the soul of what made the unique so enduring whereas constructing one thing completely recent and pressing for at this time. Paired with the cinematic sensibility of James Wan and the group at Blumhouse Atomic Monster, we imagine this sequence will captivate a complete new era of followers on Prime Video.
Amazon has been exploring methods to carry again the RoboCop franchise principally from the second they acquired MGM and its library of titles. The unique film starred Peter Weller as a very good cop in a grungy, dystopian model of Detroit overrun by greed and unchecked companies who wish to use synthetic intelligence as a way of increasing their management of the world. So, principally, it’s under no circumstances related to life in 2026. I ponder how they are going to discover a method to make it look like RoboCop is in tune with the zeitgeist now…
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