Saturday
25Oct2008
Frank Miller Going to Space with Buck Rogers
Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 8:00PM
A while back, it looked like comic book guru turned
movie director
Frank Miller had his eye on
Buck Rogers, and then there was a lot of
silence on the line. Miller has been working on
The Spirit, and there's constant talk of Sin
City and 300 spin-offs, and the Buck Rogers talk died down.
The idea will be based mostly on the Flint Dille graphic novel from the 1990s, but will retain the campy attitude (and dazzling production details) of the NBC show that aired in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Therefore, a $40 million budget is just about right.
Back when we discussed this movie in May, we had some definite casting in mind:
"If only Gil Gerard had really fallen into a coma back in the late 70s after being exposed to some kind of gas, then we could resuscitate him now. That'd be killer. Obviously, my mind turns immediately to Bruce Campbell or Nathan Fillion. I doubt Fillion would want to get into another spaceship at this point, but you never know.
"As for the women, you have some flexibility. The budget restraints mean some of the big names are out of the question, but since I just mentioned Nathan Fillion, what about his Slither co-star, the lovely Elizabeth Banks as Col. Wilma Deering and for the hell of it, Fillion's Firefly filly Morena Baccarin as Ardala?"
We'll see where Miller's head is on all of this when he finally does make the official announcement.
Reader Comments (3)
Your quotation block with casting suggestions is misleading. It implies that you are quoting Frank Miller when you are simply quoting a previous blog you wrote. It is not clear upon a first reading that the "we" who discussed this movie in May is the blog authors and not an interview between you and Frank Miller.
Speculation or not, I'm on board with casting Nathen Fillion in a Buck Rogers feature. As for whether he'd want to enter space again, who doesn't want to be in a Frank Miller production?
hmmm Fank Miller.......interesting maybe but Fillion?no way ...Bruce Cambell? hes a classic but his humor might wreck it as a serious movie....i like him as an actor but maybe not for this one.
i would like this version of Buck Rogers to be a little more serious but with more drama and possibly darker so i think frank miller might be a good one to deliver that JUST DONT LET TERENTINO OR J.J. ABRAMS GET IT LOL