Nearly 30 years after its original release, the sci-fi action film Robocop is making its way to television.
According to Deadline, Amazon MGM Studios is moving forward with a new Robocop TV series, with Peter Ocko onboard as the writer, executive producer, and showrunner.
Ocko is best known for his work on The Office, The Leftovers, Black Sails, and Lodge 49.
James Wan, known for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, will serve as an executive producer alongside his Atomic Monster partners, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett.
Produced by Amazon MGM Studios, the series will stay true to the spirit of the original 1987 Robocop, which portrayed a dystopian future where a tech corporation collaborates with local police to create a part-human, part-machine officer to fight rising crime.
The official synopsis for the TV series reads, “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.”
The original RoboCop from 1987, directed by Paul Verhoeven, was an unsettlingly prophetic sci-fi drama in which a massive corporation takes control of a city’s police force by turning a mortally wounded officer into a cyborg cop.
Although the film was set in a grim, dystopian version of Detroit, given America’s leniency towards both corporate giants and law enforcement, a modern-day reboot could easily take place in the present and almost any location.
RoboCop has spawned two sequels, a 2014 film reboot, and four short-lived TV series — most of which were targeted at children.
The RoboCop TV series does not have a premiere date yet.
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