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[Gord Green]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/george-clooney-eyed-star-buck-234539175.html

Umberto Gonzalez

Updated January 28, 2021,



George Clooney will executive produce a new television adaptation of “Buck Rogers” for Legendary, and it is Legendary’s intention for Clooney to star in the project, insiders with knowledge told TheWrap.

Grant Heslov will also executive produce the project alongside Clooney under their Smokehouse banner. “Transformers” producer Don Murphy and Susan Montford will produce via their Angry Films banner along with Flint Dille, the grandson of the original Buck Rogers creator. New York Times bestselling and award-winning comic book creator, television and film writer Brian K Vaughan has been tapped to write the television adaptation.

The project is based on the characters and concepts introduced in the 1928 novella “Armageddon 2419 A.D.” novella by Philip Francis Nowlan.

The story followed “Anthony Rogers,” a mining engineer from the 20th century who awakens from suspended animation after 500 years to find himself in the middle of a planetary war.

Nowlan and Chicago newspaperman John F. Dille developed the concept into a serialized comic strip in 1929, with the character’s named changed from Anthony to “Buck.” With the name changed to “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” the concept was essentially Rip Van Winkle in the future, with a modern-day man learning to cope 500 years in the future to a world that is no longer recognizable to him.

It was subsequently adapted for comic books, movie serials, radio dramas, and eventually the fondly remembered 1979-1981 tv series.

“Buck Rogers” introduced many concepts that have since become staples of science fiction and space fantasy, including ray guns, rocket ships, jet packs, and laser beams. It also influenced the World’s Fair and Tomorrowland in Disneyland. Not only that, but the 1939 “Buck Rogers: 12 part serial starring Buster Crabbe was, along with the “Flash Gordon” serials from the same era, a major influence on “Star Wars.”

Mary Parent and Cale Boyter are overseeing for Legendary. Cory Kaplan of Angry Films will co-produce.

Legendary is planning something along the lines of what was originally planned for Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower,” with a prestige television series that leads to a blockbuster film franchise along with an anime-style animated series, all designed to reintroduce the Buck Rogers Universe to modern audiences.

Clooney most recently produced, directed and starred in Hulu’s “Catch-22,” and Netflix’s “The Midnight Sky.”

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Holy Mackerel, Gord! Look at all the videos on YouTube about this new series!

And while I was looking for these I found videos for a new Flash Gordon movie, so I started a thread for it in the Sci-Fi Movies from 2021 to Tomorrow section.


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[Krel]

"Armageddon 2419 A.D." was not a novella, it is the Anthony Rogers novellas that were collected in novel form. I think there were three or four stories. I'll have to check my copy of "Armageddon 2419 A.D." to see.

I don't think that they could do the novel as movie or TV series, as it falls under the forbidden "Yellow Peril" trope. I don't think I've ever used "trope" before.

David.

[Bud Brewster]

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On the subject of Flash Gordon — which I became a fan of in the early 1950s when a TV station in Atalanta showed the serials on Saturday mornings — my enthusiasm for the Star Wars franchise stems from the fact that George Lucas had to change his plans to make a Flash Gordon feature film when he couldn't get the rights to the Alex Raymond series.

And the rest is cinematic history . . .

Gentlemen, could a skilled filmmaker today actually create one-or-more Flash Gordon features that presented the imagination of the Alex Raymond comic strip which had the brilliance of the Star Wars features?

I suspect the difficult part would be in presenting stories and characters whose morality and behavior was based on the by-gone age of the mid-Twentieth Century.

Sadly, today's youth and social norms are so different that a large percentage of the audience would have no memory of those ancient days! I suspect that any attempt to present these in movies today would just be viewed as spoofs and parodies . . .

This, of course, is why Forbidden Planet can't be successfully remade — for the same reason as Gone With the Wind!

The times they are a' changin'.

And so are the young and woefully uneducated audiences today who watch movies and TV series.

This is why older filmmakers with the same fond memories we have keep failing to sell their productions to younger audience who don't share the same personal histories we do.

Perhaps the problem is that Hollywood insist on marketing their products to the whole nation . . . when in fact the nation is now divided into groups like the younger customers and the older ones.

I guess that's because we no longer just have the three major networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC. In today's futuristic world, we have cable, satellite, and streaming services who provide the public with content on their HD TVs, computers, and mobile devices!

Gentlemen, how can we expect classic science fiction characters like Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon to make a triumphant comeback today, when even the original Star Wars — way back in 1977 — is now a fond memory in the minds of grandfathers like me!

However, luckily the world still has All Sci-Fi!

It's one of the last message boards which celebrates the classics and embraces the newest efforts. But we also enjoy our members' descriptions of their own fascinating concepts!

Guys, keep those posts comin'.

We have more "guest" on All Sci-Fi every day than any other board on the internet! The folks "out there" are lovin' what we're doin' here!

So . . . please keep doin' it! _

Bud ~ creator and site admin
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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