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New Buck Rogers film?

Johnny Rico

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So, I'm finally taking some time and watching some of my DVD sets that I haven't finished off yet, and one of them is my Buck Rogers set. Just started the Season 2 episodes, (boy what a change to the show).

Anyway, so I go on-line to IMDb and look up the show to check a few actors (and Erin Grey) and I see IMDb has an entry for a Buck Rogers film? (I guess) for a 2011 release. Anybody hear anything about this?

In any case, after watching the old show lately, I believe that this show could be updated ala nuBSG style, if some good producers could get a hold of the franchise. Hell, wouldn't mind seeing RDM and DE give it a shot.

I'd cast Matt LeBlanc as Capt. Buck Rogers. (He played good space man in '97's Lost in Space) and perhaps Alicia Silverstone as Col. Wilma Dearing.
 
Frank Miller is attached to direct the new Buck Rogers film, although whether that'll happen in the wake of The Spirit performing so poorly at the box office remains to be seen.
 
It couldn't be worse that the recent Flash Gordon cluster buggery.

My best question would be is the new Buck is from the 1930s or 2011 which would completely change the shade of the entire movie?

Most movies are shit, one more can hardly hurt.
 
Hmmm?

No ones using the cast of Eli Stone anymore.

I liked them.

Although, would that make Julie or Natasha into Wilma?

Though the cast of Knight Rider is probably easier to coral into another shit project.

Deanna Russo as Commander Deering?

I could see that.

Fuck me.

There's a new Knight Rider Project set to go for 2012.
 
She gave me some balance problems during her Stargate Atlantis episodes.

Though, really, wasn't Futurama Buck Rogers too, and that's coming back.

is Mongolia going to be the bad guys again like in the first strips?
 
I wonder who would screw up Buck Rogers more: Frank Miller or Ron Moore? :rommie:
 
I'm not sure if Frank Miller should do Buck Rogers. I don't want him replicating the style of Sin City yet again for another film.

But I do want to see Buck Rogers on the big screen. Perhaps a combination of the TV show and what they're doing with the new Buck Rogers comic.
 
I was never a big Buck Rogers fan, so I'm not sure of the extent to which I would enjoy this. The director/cast would have to really grab my attention in some way.
 
DarKush said:
I'm not sure if Frank Miller should do Buck Rogers. I don't want him replicating the style of Sin City yet again for another film.

But I do want to see Buck Rogers on the big screen. Perhaps a combination of the TV show and what they're doing with the new Buck Rogers comic.
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That's what I'd prefer, something influenced by all the incarnations (I still remember that intro with William Conrad's voiceover: "The year is 1987, America launches the last of it's deep space probes..."

But for God's sake, they need to dump Miller. At this point the guy's work is just a self-indulgent mass of over-the-top fetishes, cynicism, and gorey black comedy, like some unholy combination of John Waters and Sam Raimi. He probably wants to turn Buck into some jackass Dudly Do-Right oblivious to the leather-clad vixens all around him.
 
Peter the Younger said:
But for God's sake, they need to dump Miller. At this point the guy's work is just a self-indulgent mass of over-the-top fetishes, cynicism, and gorey black comedy, like some unholy combination of John Waters and Sam Raimi. He probably wants to turn Buck into some jackass Dudly Do-Right oblivious to the leather-clad vixens all around him.
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Miller became a "name" and somehow made executives believe he was a legitimate film director. Really, how much experience does he possess in this field?

Still, I still plan to watch The Spirit just to check out all the babes in that film.
 
Bad Bishop said:
Peter the Younger said:
But for God's sake, they need to dump Miller. At this point the guy's work is just a self-indulgent mass of over-the-top fetishes, cynicism, and gorey black comedy, like some unholy combination of John Waters and Sam Raimi. He probably wants to turn Buck into some jackass Dudly Do-Right oblivious to the leather-clad vixens all around him.
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Miller became a "name" and somehow made executives believe he was a legitimate film director. Really, how much experience does he possess in this field?

Still, I still plan to watch The Spirit just to check out all the babes in that film.
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Well, there is that (Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansen? Damn.) But it helps that I don't particularly care about The Spirit. Some of the hardcore comic geeks - including the guys who revere Will Eisner as a deity - were calling for Miller's head on a pike.
 
I never cared for the comics, never tried them for any duration, there was just an emotional ravine between me and giving and shit about this book, so the movie had bugger all to alienate.

I didn't think the movie was that bad.

That Sarah Paulson girl, who doomed Cupid too, I am beginning to decide might just be the vaginas answer to Ted McGinnly. She's sabotaged the fuck out of a couple projects in recent days.
 
Seeing how good Rachel Nichols looks as Scarlet in that skin-tight uniform on the GI Joe poster I think she'd squeeze into Wilma's skintight outfights quite nicely.

Erin Gray should still appear in the movie in some form though.
 
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