Amazon MGM Studios is moving forward with their planned RoboCop television series, now with horror genre titan James Wan on board to executive produce through his Atomic Monster label.
Peter Ocko has also been brought on to write, executive produce and showrun the project. He is best known for his writing and producing work on a number of popular television series, including Pushing Daisies, The Office, The Leftovers, Elementary, Black Sails, and recently Lodge 49.
As Deadline states, “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.”
This isn’t the first time that RoboCop has been adapted to television. The first film, starring Peter Weller, premiered in 1987. It was followed by two sequels, Robocop 2 in 1990, Robocop 3 in 1993 and 2014’s Robocop, a remake of the 1987 film. After the first three films were released, RoboCop: The Series premiered in 1994 with Richard Eden in the titular role, though the series lacked the graphic violence of the first two films and was targeted more towards children and teenagers.