Amazon’s reboot of the RoboCop franchise took a loud, lumbering step ahead on Tuesday, formally casting its new Alex Murphy. That character was most famously performed by Peter Weller within the 1987 unique RoboCop and by Joel Kinnaman within the 2014 reboot. Now, in response to a report from Deadline, actor Dan Stevens is getting into the function of Murphy, aka RoboCop, within the upcoming TV sequence.
Stevens is finest identified for his roles in tv exhibits like ITV’s Downton Abbey and FX’s Legion, and has starred in his share of Hollywood blockbuster fare: Magnificence and the Beast, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and Evening on the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. (He additionally beforehand performed a robotic within the 2021 German sci-fi movie I am Your Man). Stevens will subsequent seem in Onslaught, A24’s action-thriller starring Adria Arjona. In different phrases, Stevens has vary.
RoboCop will formally return in an eight-part TV sequence for Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios and manufacturing firm Blumhouse Atomic Monster confirmed in July. The long-rumored sequence, titled merely RoboCop, has been greenlit for a streaming run on Prime Video, with the franchise’s co-creators and co-writers Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner set to govt produce. Peter Ocko (Lodge 49, Pushing Daisies) will function govt producer, showrunner, and author on RoboCop. James Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett will function govt producers for Blumhouse Atomic Monster.
ccording to Amazon MGM’s unique announcement, RoboCop will inform the story of a large tech conglomerate that “convinces the town to put a robust robotic on its police pressure — a robotic implanted with the consciousness of a beloved, fallen officer.”
The unique RoboCop was launched in 1987. Written by Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner and directed by Paul Verhoeven, RoboCop was a hyper-violent motion satire that poked enjoyable at unfettered capitalism, gentrification, privatization of public companies, and company greed. It is thought of among the many finest science-fiction and motion movies of all time. The success of the primary RoboCop impressed two live-action sequels, 1990’s RoboCop 2 and 1993’s RoboCop 3 (which starred Robert John Burke as Alex Murphy/RoboCop), and spawned a children’ animated sequence, live-action tv exhibits, comedian books, and video video games. A remake starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, and Michael Keaton, additionally referred to as RoboCop, was launched in 2014 to blended reception.