Buck Rogers Movie Coming Thanks to Frank Miller December 19, 2008
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It’s not Sin to love Buck Rogers – is it?
Sin City director Frank Miller (he also did 300) is apparently set to write and direct a new movie version of Buck Rogers. I remember the 80’s TV show with Gil Gerrard fondly (remember Hawk?)
How could you not love Erin Gray’s spandex-clad Wilma Deering?
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
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.
It’s likely to be a priority project for Miller, though he has been mulling a “Sin City” sequel.
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If Miller wants to make Buck Rogers darker, why not go back to the original source material. In the original novella Armageddon 2419 mining engineer Anthony Rogers wakes up in a World where human civilisation has collapsed and alien invaders are intent on keeping the Human Race primitive and subservient.
Please dear God, don’t let Jessica Alba play Wilma!