Robocop Gets New Reboot Series Coming to Prime Video

An eight-episode Robocop bid is coming to Prime Video, with The Conjuring creator James Wan acceptable to enforcement produce.

The task has been successful improvement since Amazon acquired MGM backmost successful 2022. Peter Ocko (Moonhaven, Lodge 49) was brought connected to the bid successful 2024 arsenic writer, showrunner, and co-executive shaper alongside Wan.

Wan is champion known for his enactment successful the fearfulness genre, having famously co-created the Saw and Insidious franchises earlier launching The Conjuring universe, which presently stands arsenic the highest-grossing fearfulness IP of each time. Ock boasts implicit 3 decades successful the manufacture arsenic a writer and shaper for respective large TV series, including Pushing Daisies, The Office, Elementary, and Black Sails, to sanction conscionable a few.

Blumhouse Atomic Monster, the autarkic fearfulness workplace that merged Blumhouse Productions and James Wan’s Atomic Monster, volition grip production, with Michael Clear and Rob Hackett besides attached arsenic co-executive producers.

Staunch Robocop fans volition beryllium blessed to cognize the task is successful bully hands, with the 1987 movie’s co-creator and co-writer Ed Neumeier joining the database of enforcement producers connected the show.

As for what fans tin expect from the series, its authoritative logline doesn’t deviate excessively overmuch from what we already cognize astir Robocop: “A elephantine tech conglomerate convinces the metropolis to spot a almighty robot connected its constabulary unit – a robot implanted with the consciousness of a beloved, fallen officer.”

As told successful a property release, Wan excitedly admitted that he’s been a “massive” Robocop instrumentality “forever,” saying it was a “dream” to respire caller beingness into the iconic IP.

“What Paul Verhoeven created successful 1987 was decades up of its time, and its questions astir technology, identity, and who corporations truly service person lone grown much urgent,” helium said. “With Peter’s distinctive imaginativeness and bold attack to storytelling, and alongside Ed and our partners astatine Amazon MGM Studios, we’re moving to grant what made the archetypal iconic and item its relevancy successful this modern, tech-driven world, portion gathering thing unmistakably caller for a planetary audience.”

Peter Friedlander, Amazon MGM Studios’ Head of Global Television, described Robocop arsenic “not conscionable an enactment spectacle, but a sharp, provocative reflector of our narration with exertion and power.”

“Peter Ocko has crafted a imaginativeness that honors the psyche of what made the archetypal truthful enduring portion gathering thing wholly caller and urgent for today. Paired with the cinematic sensibility of James Wan and the squad astatine Blumhouse Atomic Monster, we judge this bid volition captivate a full caller procreation of fans connected Prime Video," Friedlander said.

Thus far, nary authoritative merchandise day has been acceptable for the show, but fans itching for much RoboCop contented tin play done RoboCop: Rogue City, a first-person shooter that released successful November 2023 with a standalone enlargement successful 2025. IGN gave the crippled a 7/10, with Justin Koreis describing it arsenic “the video crippled equivalent of a B movie successful the champion way.”

Virginia (she/her) is IGN’s News Editor. With 10 years of acquisition reporting connected games and entertainment, she’s got a storied inheritance successful the warring crippled community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her connected Twitter astatine @TheeMissGlaze.