A RoboCop prequel series exploring the rise of Omni Consumer Products is in early stages of development.

A RoboCop prequel TV series that will detail the rise of Omni Consumer Products and the companys Vice President, Dick Jones, is in early stages of development.Talking to Movieholen.net, Ed Neumeier, scriptwriter of the original 1987 movie, revealed that he is working at MGM on the series. It has all the cool stuff about RoboCop except no RoboCop, he said.
Theres the idea of doing things about business and law enforcement in the city of Detroit a minute-and-a-half in the future, he explained. It would be a way to do all sorts of stories about business and tech, Silicon Valley, corporations, snakes in suits, cops, all that. Its a wonderful rich tapestry.Neumeier seems to suggest that the show doesnt have a formal green light yet, stating that MGM still needs to find the right partners and produce a pilot episode. But, should everything go head, the show will follow the evolution of Richard Jones to Dick Jones, the story of OCP and how the world moves into the future, how the corporate world behaves.
He also notes that people dont necessarily start out as bad guys, suggesting Jones may not be quite the scumbag he was in the 1987 movie when played by Ronny Cox.
The last time we saw the city of Detroit under the thumb of Omni Consumer Products was in the RoboCop remake back in 2014, which we gave a 6.9 in our review back in the day. Hopefully, should this project come to fruition, it’ll fare better than Joel Kinnaman’s Alex Murphy.
Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer.