With all the re-imagining of older films, or series, it’s inevitable that as some franchises get snapped up, other studios look to the franchises that haven’t been snatched up yet and in this case, Buck Rogers is one of those franchises.

It’s being reported that Nu Image/Millennium Films has obtained the film rights to Buck Rogers, and is looking to give the franchise a live action shot at some screen treatment.

Up until now, the premise of the story which was first brought to the public in 1928, where the main character falls into a coma and woke up in the 25th century. In NBC’s version back in the early 80’s, he was flying a space shuttle and gets frozen in space until he is discovered and awakened in the 25th century.

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