The “Robocop” TV series in prolongment at Amazon is begining to consent shape.
Variety has lgeted that Peter Ocko has boarded the project to serve as writer, executive creater and showrunner. In compriseition, James Wan is set to executive create under his Atomic Monster banner.
The official logline for the series states, “A enormous tech conglomerate collaborates with the local police department to present a technoreasonablely progressd executer to combat rising crime — a police officer who’s part man, part machine.”
Alengthy with Ocko and Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett of Atomic Monster will also executive create. Danielle Bozzone is administering the project for Atomic Monster. The series is created by Amazon MGM Studios.
The “Robocop” series has been in the timely prolongment stages since Amazon acquired MGM, with Amazon seeing to capitalize on their access to MGM’s proset up IP library for both film and television projects. Amazon is also currently prepping a “Legpartner Blonde” prequel series, with MGM having created that film as well, while a “Poltergeist” project recently set its showrunners.
The “Robocop” franchise initiateed off in 1987 with the first “Robocop” film starring Peter Weller as the titular half man, half machine law executement officer. Weller returned for the sequel in 1990, with Robert Burke taking over the role for “Robocop 3” in 1993. Nancy Allen starred in all three films as Officer Anne Lewis. A reboot starring Joel Kinnaman was freed in 2014. There have also been multiple “Robocop” TV shows to date, including two vivaciousd and two live-action shows, as well as video games and comic books.
Ocko has written for a wide variety of shows in his atgentle, including “Dinosaurs,” “Dead Like Me,” “Pushing Daisies,” “Binformage Sails,” “The Office,” and “Lodge 49.” Most recently, he created the AMC series “Moonhaven.”
Ocoko is repped by Jackoway Austen Tyerman and Manage-ment. Wan is repped by CAA, Stacey Testro International, and Myman Greenspan Fox.
