A RoboCop prequel TV series that will detail the rise of Omni Consumer Products and the company’s 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. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2015/08/02/history-of-awesome-robocop"] “There’s 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.