With a return like that, and a Best Picture win at the Academy Awards, it was never going to stop there. The original movie cost just over $1 million to make but raked in over $225 million at the global box office. The story of Rocky began in 1976, when Sylvester Stallone was first heard bellowing "Adrian" through beaten lips and a legacy was born. Will Amazon see this as a risk worth taking? There is currently a big 80s nostalgia trip going on, which could massively help keep the new sequel on Amazons list of projects for the near future. In 2020 it was announced that a direct sequel to the 1987 original was moving into development, with Abe Forsythe down to direct and co-write the script. However, after a number of video games and animated series, a reboot of the movie franchise hit theaters in 2014, to mixed reviews but financial success. The film spawned two badly received sequels, with RoboCop 3 (1994) being seen as a complete failure and franchise killer. The original movie was something of a critical success, with its satirical look at corporate greed and the police system making it more than just another brainless, shoot-'em up action film. Like many of Verhoeven's movies, the film was soaked in violence to the point it had to be cut severely to gain the certification the studio wanted.
The 1987 Paul Verhoeven film centered on police officer Alex Murphy, played by Peter Weller, who is murdered on duty and is brought back to life as a part-cyborg law enforcer. The 1980s gave birth to many macho, violent movie franchises of which RoboCop was one. We would expect some big name stars to be linked to the newly vacated role and an announcement about the next generation of Bond to be high on the priority list.
If there is one of their acquired franchises that Amazon are guaranteed to be ready to throw a fair bit of money behind, then this is going to be the one. As Daniel Craig's tenure comes to an end this year with No Time To Die, speculation of who will take over has been the topic of conversation for a number of years already. The arrival of Daniel Craig in 2006's Casino Royale was one such jolt to the system, bringing out a brutal and emotional side of Bond that had been missing for some time which proved to be a hit with moviegoers. Even when the franchise seemed to be running out of steam, something came along to give it the jumpstart it needed. Since Dr No brought the MI6 agent to the big screen, and made a megastar of Sean Connery, we have seen the mantle passed on from one generation to the next with varying levels of success. There are fewer things certain in the movie industry than the notion that somewhere in the future there will always be another Bond movie. We can't start this list without ticking off MGM's biggest money-spinner.
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