ROBOCOP Series Moving Forward with James Wan and Peter Ocko
Amazon MGM Studios is moving forward with a RoboCop series and it’s being developed by executive producer James Wan and showrunner Peter Ocko (Lodge 49).
The series will rehash the premise of the films, and focus 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.”
Before Amazon bought MGM, there was another RoboCop-inspired series in development that would’ve focused on a young Dick Jones and the rise of Omni Consumer Products.
RoboCop creator and screenwriter Ed Neumeier was attached to that project. He previously said of it, “I’m working with these two writers, Dave Parkin and Rob Gibbs, who bought this idea to a TV producer friend of mine, who then brought it to me.
“The first time I heard it I knew it was a cool idea because I could see a lot of things you could do with it. It’s such an interesting character.”
When talking about the ideas that they are playing with, Neumeier goes on to say: “There’s the idea of doing things about business and law enforcement in the city of Detroit a minute-and-a-half in the future, it would be a way to do all sorts of stories about business and tech, Silicon Valley, corporations, snakes in suits, cops, all that. It’s a wonderful rich tapestry.
“So we’ve been talking about it and I think we have an interesting story. It’s fun to work with a younger version of the Dick Jones we meet in RoboCop. He’s an actualised corporate predator [in the move] but nobody necessarily starts out being the bad guy.
“So it’s going to be about the evolution of Richard Jones to Dick Jones, the story of OCP and how the world moves into the future, how the corporate world behaves.”
That is much more interesting to me than retelling a story that we’ve already seen. But, Hollywood loves to rehash old stories. I mean, we’ve already seen two similar RoboCop films, do we really need another one that will tell that same story?
Source: Deadline
