Amazon Announce Various IP Based Shows & Movies In Development
 

I saw a tweet today about Robocop being in talks at Amazon, I think it said a movie and a series, but first off, a series.
Tbh I had wondered if they would do a new series when they took ownership. If they did I wonder if they would go with the older certificate stuff we get on streaming or if they will go PG13 with it.

Regular Stargate TV production team are being kept out of the loop

https://josephmallozzi.com/2023/04/1...2023-stargate/

Well... what no one is talking about is... uh, does this mean Robocop Returns with Weller is now dead?

https://deadline.com/2018/07/robocop...gm-1202424639/

I'd pretty much come to think this was the case, been so long since there was any update about it.

So Pink Panther, do they mean another Inspector Clouseau movie or one about the literal Pink Panther cartoons? It's kind of hard to tell sometimes.

As for the others, I guess Robocop is the only one I care about here (except not really because there's like one good Robocop movie out of four and I don't think anyone cares about the TV shows). The closest after this I think is the Magnificent Seven but that was never anything but an inferior remake to me.

I have a fondness for the cartoon from Marvel Animation, some really good stories in that, and I occasionally watched the family-friendly 90s live-action series and didn't find it to be too bad. Watered down a lot, but not bad. Loved the end credit theme.

I forgot about the catroons, were there two of them? I never saw either.

I know the series was really toned down to be family friendly but I do have a kinda fond nostalgia for it. I'm sure I read it was being released to buy, not sure about buying it, I might do.

It's one of those franchises that although there were some bad follow ups, I'm still in, kinda the same thing with Halloween.

So basically Robocop Returns with Weller back is presumably dead. Then for an encode, more Stargate -- probably reboot -- but with no actual Stargate people involved.

In other words... this is all bad news.