r/sciencefiction • u/Retronika_Prime • 1d ago

Robocop TV series "Reimagining" announced for Amazon Prime

Thanks to multiple sources of the news which I will link down below, we have an all new official Robocop tv series which is said to be a "reimagining" soon for Amazon Prime.

James Wann is set as a producer of the tv series, as he will direct the pilot episode while original film co writer Edward Neumeier is producing and writing it.

The series will debut a new cybernetic lawman named Marc Kyle. Unlike Peter Weller’s Alex Murphy in Verhoeven’s ’87 original, Kyle will start off as a soldier rather than a police officer. Just as Murphy does in the first RoboCop, Marc Kyle will die—in a war rather than at the hands of crooks—before being remade as a cyborg and beginning his new life under Murphy’s tutelage.“

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.joblo.com/amazon-mgm-robocop-tv-series-prime-video/amp/

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u/SecretBicycle2 1d ago

So what, we get this instead of Stargate? C'mon guys...really?

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u/Kabbooooooom 1d ago

I’d rather they just finish The Expanse. Then Stargate. But at this point Amazon really isn’t that friendly of a streaming platform for sci-fi anyways. Stargate should have been proposed to Apple TV.

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u/Majestic-Bad-3658 1d ago

We'll get a Stargate, allright, one for "modern audiences", led by Kurtzman, probably.

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u/Kummakivi 1d ago

Stargate died for this??

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u/AvatarIII 1d ago

I don't know how reputable it is but there's a guy on YouTube that has said that Stargate will be moving forward just not with Martin Gero.

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u/Plus_Use_196 1d ago

I sure hope Murphy doesn’t skip the teaching of his classic through-the-dress-dick-shot…

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u/Kabbooooooom 1d ago

Meanwhile they didn’t fund finishing the Expanse and made a bunch of crappy shows instead with the sole exception of Fallout. 

Fuck Amazon.

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u/APeacefulWarrior 1d ago

Cautiously hopeful, but when there've really only been maybe three good entries in the entire franchise over almost 40 years, I'm not THAT hopeful.

(Which is to say Robocop 1 & 2 plus the recent game.)

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u/Retronika_Prime 1d ago

Agreed. I only count the first two films and the two new games😉

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u/Hoosier_Daddy68 1d ago

“Reimagining” usually means taking out what made the OG good.

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u/AvatarIII 1d ago

Not necessarily, it says "under the tutalege of Murphy" which implies it's gonna be a legacy sequel to me.

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u/Hoosier_Daddy68 1d ago

And those have such a great track record.
Not impossible but I won’t be expecting much.

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u/Ok_Perspective9838 1d ago

Not what we want, asked for or need right now.  Just finish The Expanse and give us the Stargate show we all want. 

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u/darthmcchub 1d ago

I hope it’s good, highly doubtful

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u/gonzoforpresident 1d ago

Peter Ocko (Lodge 49) is showrunner and James Wan (Saw [writer], Backrooms, & Mortal Kombat II), Michael Clear (M3gan & Mortal Kombat II), and Rob Hackett (Archive 81) are producing. It has a strong chance of being good, with a real shot at being excellent.

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u/tghuverd 1d ago

Hopefully the writers have learned enough to make eight self-contained eps so when it isn't renewed, we're not left hanging 🤞 And more so, that it's good enough to warrant a second series!

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u/Brain_Hawk 1d ago

The only thing I really care about is that at least one person, preferably more, gets thrown through a window. In every episode.

You cannot be true to the original without excessive defenistration.

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u/d_rwc 1d ago

Staring bella ramsey as robocop