One week after the serial comic Captain Future found its director, another space adventure is ready to launch. Buck Rogers has had a few adaptations since its inception in the August of 1928. Now it has a director for the upcoming 3D film written by Iron Man’s Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.

According to Coming Soon, the comic helped turn space exploration into a phenomenon. This film will help re-invent the character, while staying true to its origin.

“According to Deadline New York, the big screen adaptation is ‘a new version of the classic tale of a fighter pilot who quickly acclimates to the future and puts his skills to use defending the planet against invaders.”

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]]> http://screenrant.com/paul-ws-anderson-direct-buck-rogers-mikee-50681/feed/ 9 http://screenrant.com/frank-millar-direct-buck-rogers-movie-ross-4685/ http://screenrant.com/frank-millar-direct-buck-rogers-movie-ross-4685/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:42:58 +0000 Ross Miller http://screenrant.com/?p=4685 Hot off the heels of directing his first feature film (c’mon, we all know that on Sin City he basically just got to sit next to Robert Rodriguez while he was directing) The Spirit, it looks like graphic novel writer extraordinaire Frank Miller has his eye on another comic project to write and direct. No, it’s not one of his own (how many does he have left that haven’t already been spoken for?) but rather an adaptation of the classic 1930′s newspaper comic strip Buck Rogers.

However Miller’s version will be a lot different than the original:

“Miller will write and direct his own big-screen take on the comic serial; while the creator has only begun to sketch ideas, it’s expected to be a darker take, with many of Miller’s signature visual elements and themes, such as corruption and redemption.”

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]]> http://screenrant.com/frank-millar-direct-buck-rogers-movie-ross-4685/feed/ 45 http://screenrant.com/for-the-7-buck-rogers-fans-out-there-brusimm-1577/ http://screenrant.com/for-the-7-buck-rogers-fans-out-there-brusimm-1577/#comments Sun, 11 May 2008 05:32:10 +0000 Bruce Simmons http://dev2.screenrant.com/for-the-7-buck-rogers-fans-out-there-1577/ 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 ...

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