Published Jul 21, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT
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Prime Video is officially rebooting a 39-year-old sci-fi franchise.
The streaming service will be bringing ***Robocop ***back in a new TV series developed by Blumhouse and Atomic Monster. The *Robocop *movies were a staple of the late 1980s and early 1990s, following police officer Alex Murphy who, after getting killed in the line of duty, is given new life by the company Omni Consumer Products as the law enforcement cyborg RoboCop. A previous attempt at riviving the series came in 2014, with Joel Kinnaman in the title role. However, the movie earned mixed reviews and only minimal box office earnings against its budget.
Now, Prime Video has announced *RoboCop *is being developed as a TV show for the streaming platform, set to be produced by Blumhouse Atomic Monster. The series will consist of eight episodes with Peter Ocko, executive producer of *Lodge 49 *and Pushing Daisies, serving as showrunner, executive producer, and writer. James Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett serve as executive producers via Blumhouse Atomic Monster, alongside Danielle Bozzone as co-executive producer. *RoboCop *co-creator Ed Neumeier will also be an executive producer on the series.
Just like the movies, the *RoboCop *TV show will focus on a company building a cyborg police officer to protect a city, with said cyborg containing the consciousness of a police officer. The official description from Prime Video doesn’t directly name Omni Consumer Products or Alex Murphy. Speaking about the series, Wan explained how the sci-fi action TV show will have a “distinctive vision and bold approach” that remains true to the source material, but also expands with new, modern elements to help it stand apart from previous iterations:
I’ve been a massive fan of Robocop forever, so getting to help bring this world to television is a dream. What Paul Verhoeven created in 1987 was decades ahead of its time, and its questions about technology, identity, and who corporations really serve have only grown more urgent. With Peter’s distinctive vision and bold approach to storytelling, and alongside Ed and our partners at Amazon MGM Studios, we’re working to honor what made the original iconic and highlight its relevancy in this modern, tech-driven world, while building something unmistakably new for a global audience.
In addition, Peter Friedlander, Head of Global Television at Amazon MGM Studios, praised Ocko for his vision of what the future of RoboCop* *will look like. Much like Wan, he iterates how the new show will deliver a promising new version of the franchise, but one that still retains the ideas that make the original so memorable:
Robocop is a franchise that has meant something to audiences for nearly four decades — not just as an action spectacle, but as a sharp, provocative mirror of our relationship with technology and power. Peter Ocko has crafted a vision that honors the soul of what made the original so enduring while building something entirely fresh and urgent for today. Paired with the cinematic sensibility of James Wan and the team at Blumhouse Atomic Monster, we believe this series will captivate a whole new generation of fans on Prime Video.
Amazon acquired the rights to *RoboCop *in March 2023 after buying out MGM, merging the company with their own film and TV studios. By April of that same year, the company confirmed both a movie and TV show were in development, with the TV show expected to arrive first. This latest announcement for the future of *RoboCop *has seemingly confirmed this is still the case, with the project now going into active development having found its showrunner and executive producers. What to expect from the story and how it differs from the original, however, remains to be seen.
With the show now going into active development, it seems Prime Video is poised to turn ***RoboCop ***into a household name once again with their new TV iteration. While it’s unclear what a modernized version of the movie will mean for its presentation, the streaming service, alongside Blumhouse Atomic Monster, appear confident in the franchise’s future. Based on their previously reported plans, this could be just the start for the franchise’s return onscreen.
RoboCop: The Animated Series, RoboCop: Alpha Commando, RoboCop: Prime Directives
Video Game(s)
RoboCop versus The Terminator (1993), RoboCop: Rogue City
First TV Show
RoboCop: The Animated Series
Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Robert John Burke, Joel Kinnaman, Michael Keaton, Gary Oldman
Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner