New Buck Rogers Movie Directed By Frank Miller?
Posted on May 9th, 2008 by Mister H
Buck Rogers is due for a resurrection. The character has been around since the 20s, and he’s gotten a redo every couple decades, but we haven’t seen anything from him since the early 80s and the television series with Gil Gerard and Erin Gray. It’s time for more Buck.
Well now it’s happening. IGN says that a new Buck Rogers movie is in the works. What’s more, Frank Miller, director of The Spirit and co-director of Sin City may be one of the names in contention to helm it.
For now it’s still too early to know if this will really get done, but it’s nice to know that somewhere out there, someone at least, is thinking of bring back Buck. Beedeebedeebeep!
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