Fighter pilot-turned space hero **Buck Rogers **might have successfully journeyed to the 25th Century, but one trip he was having real trouble making was to our cinema screens. Now, according to Deadline New York, Paul WS Anderson thinks he’s the man to give him that final push.
Rogers has been in development cryostasis for a while now, ever since Frank Miller announced he was intending to re-invent the character as his follow-up to The Spirit. We all know what happened next, and it wasn’t pretty, which might explain while Miller has yet to direct anything else.
But now Anderson and producing partner Jeremy Bolt have successfully convinced rights holders Paradox that they’re the men to bring Buck into the 21st century, and, since not a day can officially go by without someone announcing a 3D project, into the stereoscopic format.
Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway will be writing the screenplay, though we don’t know which version of the Rogers plot they’ll go for – frozen in a cave by gas or stranded in space? With a history that stretches back to the 1920s, the character certainly offers a lot of options.
So, then… Milla Jovovich as Wilma Deering, anyone?