Dan Stevens Wants Prime Video’s ‘RoboCop’ to Preserve the Original’s Extreme Violence and Satire

If Prime Video is going to bring RoboCop back, there are two things Dan Stevens doesn’t want them to fuck with: the extreme violence and the satire.

Music to my ears.

As we previously reported here on Dread Central, Stevens has been cast as Alex Murphy, aka RoboCop, in Prime Video’s new eight-episode series based on the iconic sci-fi franchise.

Peter Ocko will write, showrun and executive produce the series, with James Wan, Michael Clear, Rob Hackett, original RoboCop co-writer Ed Neumeier and Danielle Bozzone also among the producers.

Speaking with ComicBook about taking over the role made famous by Peter Weller, Stevens revealed that Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 original is one of his favorite movies and singled out two elements he hopes the new series doesn’t lose.

“I think maybe one of the first exposures to extreme violence and also satire,” Stevens told the site. “I think that’s what I’m most looking forward to, hopefully preserving those elements.”

Those two things are absolutely essential to RoboCop.

The original is insane. The violence is excessive, the practical effects are disgusting, and underneath all of it is this vicious satire of corporations, consumerism, privatization and a future where seemingly everything has been turned into a product.