Before Luke Skywalker and Lee Adama there was Buck Rogers … and,
Frank Miller (Sin City, The Spirit) is bringing him back!
ABC had a Buck Rogers TV series in the '50s, and NBC produced a feature film and TV series in the late '70s and early '80s, which imagined the space explorer as someone who woke up in the 25th century to find Earth destroyed and was then consigned to roam distant planets.
Reuters reports Miller plans to put Rogers up on the big screen and his version “is expected to be a darker take, with many of Miller's signature visual elements and themes, such as corruption and redemption.”
It is predicted to be a priority project for Miller, though he has been mulling a sequel to Sin City, the 2005 hit based on his graphic novel franchise.
The project is on track to be set up at Odd Lot Entertainment, the production company behind The Spirit. According to Reuters, the firm is in negotiations to option the rights from Nu Image/Millennium, which obtained those rights this year from the Dille Trust.
http://www.hollywood.com/news/Millers_Dark_Buck_Rogers/5369663
