When Amazon lately purchased MGM, they acquired the rights the studio’s full catalog of titles, together with the skill to remake a number of these properties, as both movie or TV exhibits, or each. According to a brand new report, the net retailer (and film and TV studio, and streaming service via its Prime Video app) is now studying an entire slate of latest content material primarily based on MGM classics.
Per the report, the MGM collection with probably the most potential in Amazon’s eyes are Stargate, Legally Blonde, Fame, Barbershop, The Magnificent Seven, Pink Panther and The Thomas Crown Affair — and RoboCop, the beloved 1987 sci-fi motion film from director Paul Verhoeven.
Deadline says that “A-list creative auspices have reached out to inquire about adapting MGM IP which they are fans of. Additionally, Amazon Studios also has been leaning on its own roster of talent” to develop among the above properties.” They additionally declare that RoboCop is being thought of for “both film and TV, with a TV show possibly first.”
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The unique Verhoeven RoboCop (written by Michael Miner & Edward Neumeier), spawned two sequels in addition to a poorly obtained 2014 reboot. It was additionally spun off into a number of animated collection and just a few principally unsuccessful makes an attempt at live-action exhibits; the newest, RoboCop: Prime Directives, debuted in 2001. There hasn’t been a brand new RoboCop on both display screen since that 2014 film, which did have the best gross of any of the movies so far ($242 million) but in addition value far more than any of the flicks films did as properly ($130 million).
Most of the subsidiary RoboCops have flopped, with critics if not with followers, however the idea remains to be a captivating one. A human police officer will get gunned down within the line of responsibility and then Frankensteined again to life as a cyborg who should obey the orders of his commanding officers (and the evil company that owns the police in his darkish future). Inevitably, he rebels towards his venal masters and tries to reclaim his misplaced humanity. Given the state of the world in 2023, that concept most likely has much more relevance than it did again in 1987.
Amazon’s plans to revive well-liked MGM properties are along with the corporate’s different efforts to mine the MGM library, together with the beforehand reported Creed universe of flicks and TV exhibits, and no matter Amazon winds up doing with the James Bond collection, which is presently in between main actors.
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