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Imagine Buck Rogers re-imagined [Oh, that's just silly!]

Wingsley

Wingsley

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With all the hoopla over Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, I was wondering what it would be like to re-imagine Gil Gerard's BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY.

Think about it.

I always thought the logical conclusion for the original GALACTICA would've been for a viper patrol to stumble through a remote Earth stargate, be intercepted by Earth Starfighters (or maybe the Searcher), and Galactica winds up finding Earth in the 25th century controlled by computers. (Horror or horrors!) :rommie:

Now what would it be like if someone made a Gen Y version of BUCK? Remember in the 1970's there was an X-rated parody of FLASH GORDON. It was appropriately called FLESH GORDON. FLESH even featured a phallic-looking spaceship.

But if you re-imagined BUCK like Moore did GALACTICA, what would it be like? I could see Jennifer Aniston playing Col. Wilma Deering. Who would play Buck?
 
Cawley Entertainment Company has the license to produce Buck Rogers for the Internet, Dynamite Entertainment is currently doing a Buck Rogers comic, and Frank Miller is supposedly involved with a new Buck Rogers movie project. So we're likely to see at least two new versions of the character in the near future.
 
Someone has suggested that Farscape is a modern take on Buck Rogers. The theme is basically the same - stranger in a strange land, contemporary human out of his element. Personally, I can kinda see that in retrospect, but I still take each as their own entity.
 
BJ, the same could be said of Flash Gordon or the many faces of Dylan Hunt.

Big Trouble in Little China, for that matter. :)

The fish out of water is a staple of many types of stories. I tend to like them though. :)

With apologies to Gil Gerard, Buster Crabbe, and all other previous incarnations, I say "Beeedeeebeeeedee, Bring on the Buck! It's time for new tales!"
 
If Jennifer Aniston played Wilma Deering, who would play Buck? Who would play Princess Ardala?
 
Mistral said:
Wingsley said:
If Jennifer Aniston played Wilma Deering, who would play Buck? Who would play Princess Ardala?
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The guy who played Tom in the 4400, Joel Gretsch , might make a good Buck. And Ardala could only be played by Morena Baccarin , maybe one of the most exotic beauties on television.
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Ironically, they will be in the same show next fall, and it will also be a remake: V. But Baccarin would do a better job in a role like Ardala than cast as Diana (I just can't see her having the presence to pull that off - she's far too lightweight).

As for a Buck Rogers re-imagining, we already got it. It was called Farscape, and Ben Browder was the best Buck ever. :D
 
I'll only support it if Buck defeats every adversary with a relentless barrage of flying kicks and judo chops.
 
Farscape was nothing like Buck Rogers. Buck Rogers was a guy suspended in time and awakened to a future world where barbarians had taken over; he was forever cut off from his past life and had to adjust to the changed nature of Human civilization, and he became a freedom fighter. Crichton was whipped across the universe by a space warp and joined a crew of fugitive aliens; he always had the hope of returning home, and actually managed it a few times, and he became a nutcase.
 
Starship Polaris said:
Cawley Entertainment Company has the license to produce Buck Rogers for the Internet, Dynamite Entertainment is currently doing a Buck Rogers comic, and Frank Miller is supposedly involved with a new Buck Rogers movie project. So we're likely to see at least two new versions of the character in the near future.
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Frank Miller + Buck Rogers ?? :wtf: :wtf:

Where's that "barficon" when I need it? Dear Lord, that sounds like an awful combination... :scream:

Cheers,
-CM-
 
I'd like to think that RDM has more than one trick up his sleeve and wouldn't basically make Buck Rogers into a rehash of BSG.

RJDiogenes said:
Farscape was nothing like Buck Rogers. Buck Rogers was a guy suspended in time and awakened to a future world where barbarians had taken over; he was forever cut off from his past life and had to adjust to the changed nature of Human civilization, and he became a freedom fighter. Crichton was whipped across the universe by a space warp and joined a crew of fugitive aliens; he always had the hope of returning home, and actually managed it a few times, and he became a nutcase.
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I think I have to go with Temis on this one, Farscape definitely feels like an updated Buck Rogers. It was certainly more like your description of BR than it was not even if it wasn't in lockstep with the source material. Heck he even flew around in a jetpack in one episode.
 
Wingsley said:
With all the hoopla over Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, I was wondering what it would be like to re-imagine Gil Gerard's BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY.

Think about it.

I always thought the logical conclusion for the original GALACTICA would've been for a viper patrol to stumble through a remote Earth stargate, be intercepted by Earth Starfighters (or maybe the Searcher), and Galactica winds up finding Earth in the 25th century controlled by computers. (Horror or horrors!) :rommie:

Now what would it be like if someone made a Gen Y version of BUCK? Remember in the 1970's there was an X-rated parody of FLASH GORDON. It was appropriately called FLESH GORDON. FLESH even featured a phallic-looking spaceship.

But if you re-imagined BUCK like Moore did GALACTICA, what would it be like? I could see Jennifer Aniston playing Col. Wilma Deering. Who would play Buck?
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The only way I'd be interested -- even remotely -- in BR is if they went back to the source material and ignore the 70's version completely.
 
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