A New RoboCop Series Is Marching Ahead at Amazon

Amazon conscionable took a large measurement guardant connected a amusement that volition outgo importantly much than a dollar. A caller bid based connected Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 classical RoboCop has been successful the works for astir a year and present the streamer has acceptable Peter Ocko (Lodge 49, Moonhaven) arsenic its showrunner—and none different than James Wan arsenic 1 of the enforcement producers.

The logline of the show, according to Variety, is “A elephantine tech conglomerate collaborates with the section constabulary section to present a technologically precocious enforcer to combat rising crime—a constabulary serviceman who’s portion man, portion machine.” So, basically, the crippled of the archetypal movie.

Last year, RoboCop was at the apical of a database of properties Amazon wanted to resurrect aft its acquisition of MGM. It’s unclear precisely what absorption the amusement volition take, oregon however it volition beryllium antithetic from different iterations, but with Ocko’s acquisition (he’s besides worked connected The Leftovers, The Office, Elementary, Black Sails, and Pushing Daisies) and the imaginativeness of Wan’s company, Atomic Monster, you person a consciousness it’ll beryllium tonally oregon thematically on the lines of that archetypal film.

The archetypal RoboCop was 1 of those movies that captured a moment. Adored by some adults who got it, and kids who did not, it was a large capable occurrence that it spawned 2 sequels, was rebooted successful 2014, and has had aggregate iterations connected TV. None of the TV versions were that memorable (though a precocious ’80s animated bid did person 40 episodes), truthful you’d ideate astir radical don’t adjacent cognize RoboCop was ever connected the tiny screen.

Plus, this is Amazon. A institution that spends astir a gazillion dollars connected Lord of the Rings. RoboCop isn’t quite Lord of the Rings successful presumption of sanction designation but it’s well-known capable that you’d presume it’ll get a important investment. Also, if the amusement is fractional arsenic subversive, interesting, and amusive arsenic the archetypal movie, it could beryllium precise intriguing.

So, what bash we deliberation here? Will radical ticker a RoboCop show? What tin RoboCop bash to marque itself basal out? And, I deliberation this is crucial, what volition the quality of RoboCop look like? Even though the 2014 remake was very, precise bad, it went into the satellite astatine a immense disadvantage simply due to the fact that the filmmakers redesigned that unforgettable, unmistakable, metallic look of the original. A caller mentation shouldn’t beryllium the nonstop aforesaid suit but it should beryllium beauteous damn similar. At slightest that’s our feeling.

Let america cognize what you deliberation astir the thought of RoboCop not conscionable coming backmost to the tiny surface but coming to Prime Video from this team.

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