Amazon MGM Studios has officially ordered a RoboCop series for Prime Video.
The studio made it official on Monday, confirming a series order for the long-developing reboot from showrunner Peter Ocko and James Wan’s Blumhouse Atomic Monster, according to Deadline.
That puts a firm stake in the ground behind the greenlight we reported back in April, and moves the project past a development stage it had been sitting in since James Wan first came aboard in 2024.
The premise sticks close to the original: a giant tech conglomerate convinces a city to put a powerful robot on its police force, one implanted with the consciousness of a beloved, fallen officer.
The creative team
Ocko (Lodge 49) writes and executive produces alongside showrunning duties. Wan executive produces through Blumhouse Atomic Monster with Michael Clear and Rob Hackett, and co-executive producer Danielle Bozzone oversees for the company. Ed Neumeier, co-writer of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 original, also executive produces.
Wan, a self-described lifelong fan, called bringing the world to TV “a dream” and pointed to how the 1987 film’s questions about technology, identity, and who corporations actually serve have only gotten more relevant.
Peter Friedlander, Head of Global Television at Amazon MGM Studios, framed the franchise as a “provocative mirror” of our relationship with technology and power, and said the goal is honoring the original while building something new for today.
Amazon keeps mining the MGM library, but not Stargate
RoboCop is the latest legacy MGM property Amazon has pushed to series since its 2022 acquisition, following the Legally Blonde prequel Elle (already renewed for Season 2) and Barbershop on Prime Video, plus The Magnificent Seven over on MGM+.
The timing is hard to ignore. Amazon just walked away from its previously greenlit Stargate revival and is now hunting for a new writer, even as the #SaveStargate campaign keeps growing. So while one MGM crown jewel gets left in limbo, RoboCop moves to the front of the line. It fits the same pattern we’ve tracked as Amazon digs through the rest of that library.
About RoboCop
RoboCop began with Verhoeven’s 1987 film starring Peter Weller as Alex Murphy, a Detroit cop killed in the line of duty and rebuilt as a cyborg by Omni Consumer Products. At its core it was social satire, blending action with a critique of corporate greed, privatization, and identity.
The original launched RoboCop 2 (1990), RoboCop 3 (1993), a 1994 live-action series, animated shows, comics, and games, plus a mixed-reception 2014 remake. More recently, RoboCop: Rogue City revived interest by returning to the tone of the classic films.
