RoboCop TV Series Names Showrunner, Adds James Wan as EP

Matt Webb Mitovich

25 September 2024 at 3:00 pm·1-min read

A live-action RoboCop TV series in development at Amazon MGM Studios has armed itself with two key creatives.

Peter Ocko, whose credits include Lodge 49, Elementary and Pushing Daises, has been tapped to serve as a writing executive producer and showrunner, while horror film vet James Wan, who helped shepherd Peacock’s upcoming Teacup thriller, has come on board as another EP.

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Wan’s partners Michael Clear and Rob Hackett will also serve as exec producers.

In the prospective TV series, as in the original 1987 film starring Peter Weller, “A giant tech conglomerate 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.”

No casting has yet been announced.

The original RoboCop film hit theaters in July 1987 and is regarded as one of the great action films of all time. A total of two big-screen sequels followed (though the latter swapped in Robert John Burke in the title role), as did a live-action, one-and-done 1994 TV series, an animated 1998 series, and a tepidly received 2014 theatrical reboot led by Joel Kinnaman.

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