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While RoboCop was initially an American property, Orion Pictures received a $500,000 cash infusion for TV licensing rights by Canada's Skyvision Entertainment in May 1993. . Orion Pictures had originally planned to make a fourth RoboCop film, but decided to license a television series instead due to the bankruptcy of the studio and the negative reception to RoboCop 3 (1993).
RoboCop is an American cyberpunk action media franchise featuring the futuristic adventures of Alex Murphy, a Detroit, Michigan police officer, who is fatally wounded in the line of duty and transformed into a powerful cyborg, brand-named RoboCop, at the behest of a powerful mega-corporation, Omni Consumer Products.
RoboCop was considered easier to merchandise than other R-rated films and, [119] despite its violent content, its merchandise was targeted at a younger audience. Merchandise included cap guns and other toys, comic books, [n] theme-park rides, novels [65] and RoboCop Ultra Police action figures, which were released with the 1988 animated series ...
The series is set in the year 2030 (2020 in the pilot episode), and deals with RoboCop being reactivated after five years offline to assist a federal high-tech group, "Alpha Division" in their vigilance and struggle against DARC (Directorate for Anarchy, Revenge, and Chaos), a highly advanced terrorist organization, and other forces of evil, whenever that may be, globally or nationally.
The “Robocop” TV series in development at Amazon is starting to take shape. Variety has learned that Peter Ocko has boarded the project to serve as writer, executive producer and showrunner ...
RoboCop: Prime Directives is a Canadian cyberpunk TV miniseries released in 2001. It is a spin-off from the RoboCop franchise. [3] The series, created by Fireworks Entertainment, consists of four feature-length episodes: Dark Justice, Meltdown, Resurrection and Crash and Burn.
Peter Francis Weller [1] (born June 24, 1947) is an American actor and television director.. He has appeared in more than 70 films and television series, including RoboCop (1987) and its sequel RoboCop 2 (1990), in which he played the titular character; The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984); and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). [2]
RoboCop appears in the 23-issue Marvel series and two comic book adaptations of the film series (1987–1992). He appears in Dark Horse comics book series (1992–1994). He later appears in Avatar Press titles, Frank Miller's RoboCop and more (2003–2005).