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Brian Damage · 05-08-2008, 10:14 PM

May 8, 2008 - IGN Movies has learned from a longtime reliable source that classic science fiction hero Buck Rogers will return to theaters courtesy of Nu Image/Millennium Films, the outfit behind the recent revivals of Rambo and Conan.

Not only that but we were told that none other than comic book icon-turned-filmmaker Frank Miller will direct it! Miller co-directed Sin City with Robert Rodriguez and is currently making his solo directorial debut with a big-screen adaptation of another pulp hero, Will Eisner's The Spirit.

Miller, we were told, is friends with Flint Dille, a comic book, TV and videogame writer and producer whose credits include serving as the story editor on the 1980s cartoon classics Transformers and G.I. Joe. Dille, according to his bio at the IMDB, inspired the name for Dillios, the lone Spartan survivor of the battle of Thermopylae, in Miller's graphic novel 300.

Dille is the grandson of John Dille, the newspaper publisher of Philip Francis Nowlan's Buck Rogers comic strips. The screen rights to the Buck Rogers character had long been held by Bruckheimer Films, who spent years developing an unrealized film adaptation, before they reverted back to the Dille Family Trust.

Flint Dille, who penned a Buck Rogers graphic novel in the 1990s, will write and produce the new Buck Rogers movie, which we were informed will be budgeted in the $40 million range. The cheapness of the low-budget effects will be a running joke in the movie, which will retain the campiness of the 1980s TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century starring Gil Gerard.

Buck Rogers has also been portrayed in a 12-part serial by Buster Crabbe and in a short-lived 1950s TV series by three different actors: Earl Hammond, Kem Dibbs and Robert Pastene. The character has also appeared in role-playing games and videogames.

As originally conceived by Nowlan, Buck Rogers was a U.S. military pilot who falls into a coma after being exposed to a gas and wakes up in the 25th century. Later as a comic strip character, Buck -- along with allies Wilma Deering and Dr. Huer -- fought cosmic villains such as the Mongols, Killer Kane and Ardala. Buck was updated to be an astronaut for the 1980s TV series.

http://au.movies.ign.com/articles/872/872727p1.html

TJL · 05-08-2008, 10:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Damage

The cheapness of the low-budget effects will be a running joke in the movie, which will retain the campiness of the 1980s TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century starring Gil Gerard.

Great!

Everything that sucked about the TV series will still be in the movie adaptation!

I hope Twiki is in it too!

Ah, Twiki...

This is a great idea!

I'm going to go have a good cry now.

comedyfreak · 05-09-2008, 03:46 AM

Why? They know it's going to bomb, why waste money. Idiots!

dlemond · 05-11-2008, 01:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TJL

Great!

Everything that sucked about the TV series will still be in the movie adaptation!

I hope Twiki is in it too!

Ah, Twiki...

This is a great idea!

I'm going to go have a good cry now.

I've got three words for you:

Beedy Beedy Beedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oFX7IgLlDk

dlemond · 05-20-2008, 07:25 PM

Twiki rules!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKFNrae_QDY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAjyU...eature=related

ClassicTVGal · 05-27-2008, 03:14 PM

I was hoping they'd make a new movie, but only with the TV Series Cast.

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Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,108	Buck Rogers to Return to the Big Screen May 8, 2008 - IGN Movies has learned from a longtime reliable source that classic science fiction hero Buck Rogers will return to theaters courtesy of Nu Image/Millennium Films, the outfit behind the recent revivals of Rambo and Conan. Not only that but we were told that none other than comic book icon-turned-filmmaker Frank Miller will direct it! Miller co-directed Sin City with Robert Rodriguez and is currently making his solo directorial debut with a big-screen adaptation of another pulp hero, Will Eisner's The Spirit. Miller, we were told, is friends with Flint Dille, a comic book, TV and videogame writer and producer whose credits include serving as the story editor on the 1980s cartoon classics Transformers and G.I. Joe. Dille, according to his bio at the IMDB, inspired the name for Dillios, the lone Spartan survivor of the battle of Thermopylae, in Miller's graphic novel 300. Dille is the grandson of John Dille, the newspaper publisher of Philip Francis Nowlan's Buck Rogers comic strips. The screen rights to the Buck Rogers character had long been held by Bruckheimer Films, who spent years developing an unrealized film adaptation, before they reverted back to the Dille Family Trust. Flint Dille, who penned a Buck Rogers graphic novel in the 1990s, will write and produce the new Buck Rogers movie, which we were informed will be budgeted in the $40 million range. The cheapness of the low-budget effects will be a running joke in the movie, which will retain the campiness of the 1980s TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century starring Gil Gerard. Buck Rogers has also been portrayed in a 12-part serial by Buster Crabbe and in a short-lived 1950s TV series by three different actors: Earl Hammond, Kem Dibbs and Robert Pastene. The character has also appeared in role-playing games and videogames. As originally conceived by Nowlan, Buck Rogers was a U.S. military pilot who falls into a coma after being exposed to a gas and wakes up in the 25th century. Later as a comic strip character, Buck -- along with allies Wilma Deering and Dr. Huer -- fought cosmic villains such as the Mongols, Killer Kane and Ardala. Buck was updated to be an astronaut for the 1980s TV series. http://au.movies.ign.com/articles/872/872727p1.html
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ClassicTVGal Traveler Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 26, 2004 Posts: 3,457	I was hoping they'd make a new movie, but only with the TV Series Cast.