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THE SPIRIT's Frank Miller To Write And Direct New Big-Screen Version Of BUCK ROGERS!!
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Frank Miller plans to write and direct a new big-screen version of “Buck Rogers” for the same team of producers behind “The Spirit.”
From The Hollywood Reporter:
… while the creator has only begun to sketch ideas, it's expected to be a darker take, with many of Miller's signature visual elements and themes, such as corruption and redemption.
The character, a 20th century Rip Van Winkle who wakes up after a five-century nap, began life in the 1928 Philip Francis Nowlan novella "Armageddon 2419 A.D."
Find all of the Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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... Robert Rodriguez needs to be assassinated for this.
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this could be tricky. Olivia Wilde or Yvonne Strahovski maybe...
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I guess they hadn't seen The Spirit yet when they put this deal in motion.
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It's not as if he got this gig based on the incredible word of mouth about THE SPIRIT. Either Miller's agent did an outstanding job or the exec who greenlit this didn't do his.
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Americans are such suck-merchants, you just keep forgiving yourselves for these wretched comic book turds, and then attempt to save face by giving the same people who made them, and/or the characters another go. "But we're not all like that". Suck it!
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...Erin Gray is 58 years old. I don't know about you, but I don't really need to see that.
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I hope The Spirit is a huge bomb so this will never happen. While I enjoyed Sin City because it was different and liked Year One, the rest of his work is either utter shit or vastly overrated. It's bad enough it looks like he's going to make a mockery of The Spirit, one of my favorite Golden Age characters, but now another great genre icon will be ruined so we'll have to wait another 30 years for a "reboot". What's next, The Shadow?
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Look, I realize that "The Spirit" may very well suck, but no one around here has seen it and opinions are being formed based on a couple of short clips and sketchy reviews. At least wait until the movie hits the theater before going into full bash mode.
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He's DONE. Best shit he's ever contributed is behind him! He's a one trick pony that needs to be put down.
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Always get you next job before anybody sees your last job. Words to live by.
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taint and sabotage another pop character. Perhaps it's his perogative to destroy beloved characters with his absurd characterization and storytelling.
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...and those that do really only remember Erin Gray's tight pants and the dumb robot, Twiki. Most of the Bust Crabbe generation are dead or senile.
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besides superheroes and those Robocop scripts, has he ever done anything that would make anyone think he's qualified in any way for a space-faring sci-fi subject like Buck Rogers? Regardless of Miller's talents or lack thereof, I just dont see him as being the right guy for this particular project.
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Dec. 19, 2008, 1:25 a.m. CST
I WAS IN BED. AND I FELT A GREAT DISTURBANCE.
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
FRANK MILLER -- DROP DEAD YOU FUCKING PEDOPHILE. <P> Ok. I'm going back to bed.
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I hear Will Smith's available. :)
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Frank Miller style. Bigggity Boo, motherfucker!
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Make it so... >:)
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How else do you explain a second Steve Martin Pink Panther movie?
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With Beyoncé or Eva Mendes as the wife he accidentally skewered when his bird ship stuck its claws into Buck's.
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Fuck you. In my dreams, Erin Gray is perpetually 32, and she is hot, my friend. She. Is. Hot.
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Seriously. I'll give him TDKR and that is IT.
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Frank Miller's just completely the WRONG guy to try to pull it off.
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It's gonna be great to see Frank Miller's dark take on Daffy Duck and Porky Pig!! Boy, I wonder what his Marvin The Martian will look like.....maybe in all black and white except for some cool ass green splotched here and there. And it's really gonna be great to see that bleak, desolate moonscape done Miller-style and.......oh shit......nevermind.
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Frank could easily be classified as a one-trick-pony, but hell. He does what he does in his own inimitable fashion, and that's totally fine with me. I'm looking forward to this, I just wish that he would do more comics instead. (At least, that's my opinion until I see The Spirit).
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My oh so innocent looking little sister who dresses provatively just to entice me...And my ship is my throbbing manhood..Here I come momma!Buck's coming home to roost. But I'm not coming to fuck you this time..I'm coming to fuck you up..Coming for you Zardoz.Only this time, justice and payback are my lubricant, not KY.....
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no deal! also bring back that smokey goddess Erin grey! ( and that deeby deeby deeb, robot guy) :-)
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That's what i get for posting before reading...
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FRANK MILLER IS THE WRONG GUY FOR BUCK ROGERS!!!!!! I love Miller's comic book work, and the movie adaptations for 300 and Sin City- but not for Buck Rogers!!!!!!!!! Movie Execs, you reading this????????
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Only with ninjas and robots.Ghandi's back...And HE...IS....PISSED!
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Dec. 19, 2008, 2:30 a.m. CST
Let's talk about this again after The Spirit became a bigger...
by DerLanghaarige
...Box Office bomb than Speed Racer.
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than sam bottoms and deep throat
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beedee....beedee....beedee....i still wanna fuck erin
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What's the deal with Erin Gray? Have you people already forgotten the ultimate space slut of the TV series, Pamela Hensley? Her Princess Ardala helped me (along with Flash Gordon's Ornella Muti) and thousands of other twelve and thirteen-year-olds become men back in the day. <P> Good times, good times...
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Hey, I whacked it to Ms. Gray as much as the next guy, but she's getting a bit long in the tooth. Rest assured, one thing Miller will get right is casting a hottie as Wilma Deering.
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He's 1 for 2, IF the Spirit is Bad. He's no Uwe Boll, you fucking bubble-headed sperm-merchants.<br><br>Lets see how the new one fares. I would definitely have someone on hand to apptove his scripts though.
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Google her. You know it to be true. Kirby would not do you wrong.
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...as Barbarella, you fools!
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Damn You Michael Bay
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Damn You erin Gray
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Unfortunately, The Rod has got his head stuck up Rose's (no bad place to be, mind you) ass. The Baird is PERFECT for it.
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That shit was scary when I was a kid.
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I like Frank Miller. I like his work in comics. His film work, though, leaves much to be desired. I can just see this being yet another green screen snore fest. I'm not a huge fan of the Sin City movie, though I can respect how the style to bring it to the screen was different and fitting. But now we've got Sin City 2, er, The Spirit with the same style, more ugly inkblot shadowing, torpid dialogue and hammy acting. (And yes, I know an actual Sin City 2 is in the offing as well.) I can just see them applying this same overworn-its-welcome style to Buck Rogers, especially if it's going to be a darker take. Already bored with it.
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In case there were any doubters... <p> Not work safe: <p> http://tinyurl.com/4rgg9n
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...To do whatever he wants, but no one is ever going to give him money to make a movie ever again.
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Dec. 19, 2008, 4:22 a.m. CST
So, in this version OUTER SPACE is actually one big CITY
by LHombreSiniestro
and someone has stylized SPACE CHUCK TAYLORS.....
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Doesn'y Hollywood have a clue. The only reason Miller is directing is that Robert Rodriguez made him look good with a co-director credit for SIN CITY and Zack Snyder's 300 was a panel-to-panel hit at the B.O. It doesn't prove Miller is an auteur.
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He directed Sin City as much as Tarantino did. He also wrote Robocop 3.
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Anyone want to lay money that this project will be cancelled/re-assigned pretty fucking quickly?
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Because once the Spirit flops. You are going back to comics.
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ZOMG I love him. Seriously ... where has he been? Give me a call, Gil.
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"Movie Execs, you reading this????????"<P> No, probably not.
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Beedy-beedy-beedy. Hopefully they can get Noel Blanc for the job. :)
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Bring it on !
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alternate title
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Are you retarded or something? I'm the goddamned Buck Rogers.
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Lucy Pinder, Michelle Marsh, Sophie Howard, Keeley Hazell, and Jamie King by contractual obligation.
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I nominate a rug of some sort; preferably a thick, musty one.
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You can tell he's a birdman cause he has feathers on his head.
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In space, no one can hear you boogie.
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THE SPIRIT will probably do moderately well on opening week; running off the popularity of the awesome SIN CITY and the mind-numbingly awful (though highly successful) 300 Butch Gay Spartans. It will drop through the floor after that, though. So, we'll see if this actually happens, or if Frank will have to go back to pretending its still 1986 and he still knows how to write comics. (Curiously, I actually think his artwork has gotten better while his writing has become unfathomably worse.)
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Can they at least take a look at the Box Office returns before handing over Rickey's beloved sci-fi franchise to this hack? Jesus tittyfucking christ this is depressing news.
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And not really a terrific writer, at least for the past decade or so. So help me if he turns Buck Rogers into some twisted erotic noir... I know we can't pass judgment on the guy just yet, but I don't think Miller is capable of telling a straight-up adventure story, which is what fans are going to expect. No one WANTS to watch B. R. filtered through Miller's f-ed up sensibilities, but it's a safe bet that that's what we're going to get.
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... when the Spirit makes 12 bucks over xmas weekend
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Doesn't Lorraine Williams still own the rights to Buck? If Miller manages to suckify this movie too, maybe she'll lose a bucket of money. She deserves to get swatted some more.
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because Miller's never getting work in Hollywood again after The Spirit utterly tanks.
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...is about all I can remember of Buck Rogers, but boy, what a memory!
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Dec. 19, 2008, 8:11 a.m. CST
Buck Rogers is supposed to be light and fluffy, not "dark"
by Snake Foreskin
or "edgy". Frank Miller has no business bringing his "trademark" anything to Buck Rogers. These pimple-faced Hollywood execs really need to be replaced with people who have a sense of history and know a thing or two about the source material. Pretty soon you'll be seeing a Bible movie done entirely in anime with tentacle rape scenes, just because the new exec happens to be a huge hentai fan.
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Is Twiki going to be in this?
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Not at all; it's the least high-profile of the Christmas day openings, and just because somebody liked 300 doesn't mean they're going to show up for this shit-fest; I mean none of the trailers have screamed, "I've got to see this!"<p>9 million, opening weekend. Tops.
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Dec. 19, 2008, 8:12 a.m. CST
I am going to wipe my ass with Frank Miller's fedora...
by Leafar the Lost
I have noticed over the years that men who wear hats all the time have an overrated view of themselves. Miller probably thinks he is a really good movie director. He probably thinks that THE SPIRIT is one of the best movies ever made. If he has all ready signed the deal for BUCK ROGERS, then the studio needs to just pay him off and hire another writer/director. They need to hire someone who knows what the fuck they are doing.
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Wilma Deering my Valkyrie my warrior woman get thee into a crop top!!
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They should let George Lucas make Buck Rogers have the producers just sit back and make their 30%
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First he fucks up ROBOCOP, then he fucks up his own legacy with THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN and ALL-STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE LONG-WINDED TITLE, then he fucks Will Eisner's corpse with a shitty film adaptation of THE SPIRIT, and now you morons want to give him Buck Rogers?
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Dec. 19, 2008, 8:24 a.m. CST
Frank Miller shouldn't be allowed to direct anything ever again.
by beatleMatt
As a writer he's brilliant, as a director, he's a tard.
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While I'll readily acknowledge the original was campy...and not overly familiar w/ the source material... too much T&A, or blood & gore seems *wrong* - and I can't see Frank Miller directing any other kind of film.
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I'd watch this.
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Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century.
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After seeing the five Spirit scenes, I'm skeptical about Miller's mental health, but I'm still pulling for him in the long run. Having said that, Buck Rogers is not a good choice on his (or the stuido's) part.
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"Darker" does NOT mean "better"!! What works design-wise for Tim Burton and Batman films should NOT be applied to every freaking comic book movie! Fanboys really need to wise up, figure out that design supports and follows the STORY- NOT the other way around -and stop demanding every film be given a "darker" treatment!! I'm off to have an aneurysm now...
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Bidi bidi bidi.
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No more directing for Miller please.
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You whacked it to the next guy? Was he always the same guy or just whatever guy happened to be next to you?
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Count me out of seeing this mess (if it actually happens). Buck Rogers is up there with Star Wars as my childhood fantasy space adventure. This is not some violent comic book but a franchise with a definite cult following. Miller's career is in serious jeopardy with this one.
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This will be problematic unless Miller changes his stripes, (which he couldn't do for Batman and Robin).
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With his corrupt gaze, licking the teenage moon girls with his eyes. It's all it takes. Just a little TIME TRAVEL. I'm goddamn Buck Rogers and it's the goddamn 25th century. Her space suit smells of cinnamon and tits. My feet crunch on the soil of Mars. One last shot in my ray blaster. One. Last shot. All I need. These men don't deserve teenage girls. I'll rescue them, and then they'll offer me their purity, and turn it down. Cause I'm goddamn Buck Rogers.
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And it all but dares you to keep watching. Like Sin City reshot on a planet where the basic element is not hydrogen, but suck. And this is coming from somebody who's interested enough in Miller's work to have written a grad thesis on him. MisterE: stop telling people what they can and can't say.
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I'm crying laughing right now. SPOT ON Miller writing.
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...yes, I used your mouth as a cum dumpster.
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I don't think it will happen once those producers lose all their money on The Spirit. Or at least we can hope. Just remember, the fewer of you that go see The Spirit around Christmas, the less chance this movie has of being made. Just don't go see it. You know in your heart its awful, just trust that you don't need to see for yourself. STAY HOME WITH YOUR FAMILIES...SAVE BUCK RODGERS. Or just see Valkyrie.
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Good point. Spread the word-- BOYCOTT THIS SHIT....STOP FRANK MILLER NOW!!
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I wasn't telling people what they can or cannot say. I was merely suggesting that they wait until the movie is released so they they will have the opportunity to see it, if they choose, and form their own opinion. You, however, were telling people (specifically, me) what they can or cannot say.
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Santa needs to bring an edit function to this board.
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Quote: "... no one around here has seen it and opinions are being formed based on a couple of short clips and sketchy reviews. At least wait until the movie hits the theater before going into full bash mode." I was just pointing out that some of us HAVE seen it, and thus shouldn't be told to wait to comment, or that our reviews are "sketchy." Most of what I've read so far has been spot-on.
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Keep the TB's pure. Live with the fucking typos so cunts have to live with what they post.
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Dec. 19, 2008, 11:08 a.m. CST
I'LL TELL PEOPLE TOO -- DON'T SEE THE SPIRIT!! BOYCOTT!!
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
FUCK FRANK MILLER....end his film career now!! Download it illegally if you must see just how shitty it is.
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"It's just a diver's watch!"
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Both have aspirations for something bigger and yet fail in their noble attempt..
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In fact it could be great if he actually bases it on the original novel Armageddon 2419ad. But he won't.
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Dec. 19, 2008, 12:15 p.m. CST
"Y'know, there's nothing supernatural or mystical about Buck..."
by StarWarsRedux
"...He's just an ordinary human being who keeps his wits about him. And suffers from colorblindness, apparenly."
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... will eat your entrails on his TUMMY!
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... no he won't... not after The Spirit tanks spectacularly. Miller's gonna wind up as the next John Byrne... former fanboy darling who ends up a pathetic has-been that everyone hates. Too bad, really.
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...is that the show wasn't just hopelessy outdated for the 25th century -- it was hopelessly outdated for 1980.
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plot. Needs warring gerbils...
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Dec. 19, 2008, 12:32 p.m. CST
Because BUCK ROGERS is famous for it's sci-fi corruption...
by christian66
I love Mr. Miller's work, but come on.
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Hopefully this deal will be withdrawn once the spirit comes out and makes $20 at the box office. Miller sucks BALLS!
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"I've seen the Spirit and it all but dares you to keep watching". Funniest line I've read all day. As far as Buck Rogers goes.....leave it the fuck alone. I'm talking to you Miller. Now comic book wise I dig you man, even that batshit crazy take of Batman your writing in All Star Batman right now, but, Buck friggin Rogers is my childhood man. Seeing a "dark" version of it with Sin City-type cinematography??? Please-God-NO. Think Iron Man, not Dark Knight for this one, and at some point, if you manage to not get a single thing right about it, at least bring back the space vampire; that fucking thing scared the living shit outta me as a kid. Good times.
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This ain't gonna happen. Funny thing is - for someone who railed against the corrupt creatively bankrupt studio system, he can't seem to create anything original. Read FEAR AGENT instead, and see essentially a good version of a mature, dark redemptive BUCK ROGERS, AND support a new creative force in comics instead of Miller.
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Families will go to BEDTIME STORIES, women will go see BENJAMIN BUTTON, almost everyone else will see FOUR CHRISTMASES and TDTESS. Only the few nerds who stood in line for THE CLONE WARS will bother with this piece of dreck.
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...no no no.
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This can't be happening Buck!!
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I won't say it.
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Wow. Buck Rogers. I loved this show as a kid. I saw the movie in the theaters on my first date with a real live girl. I spent the next day kissing her hand ala Buck and the Princess. "The pleasure was all mine." The TV show got pretty retarded at the end, but man, I did love it for a while. And Wilma! Shit, that skin-tight, white flight-outfit of hers is one of the iconic, hot costumes of sci-fi, right up there with Leia's gold bikini, IMHO. And I forgot that Mel Blanc did Twiki's voice. As to Miller working on this: oh, shit! Perhaps his "vision" just doesn't translate to film. I don't know what it is, but I'm definitely not looking forward to seeing The Spirit.
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*Gif uzz zee unobtainium or ve vill sodomize the 4 legged alien child*
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1. Re-writing The Hobbit without all that silly forest stuff. 2. Ruining David Bowie's acting career once and for all. 3. Exhuming Will Eisner's corpse for a private tea party with Neil Gaiman.
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IS he afraid of ruining his own work?
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ie; no-one on this site, now the die-hard Buck Rogers fans begin. Newsflash- the camp TV show was a lame adaptation of the source material, cranked out to cash in on Star Wars. Fuckwads. Nothing fanboys hate more than a succesful fanboy.
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Somebody(Mr. Miller) missed the boat on that one!
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have you seen Bruce Campbell lately?<p> He's got a big ol' belly and man boobs.<br> He went shirtless on an early ep of Burn Notice.<br> Hopefully he won't do that again...
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Cameltoe Cameltoe Cameltoe Cameltoe Cameltoe Cameltoe Cameltoe Cameltoe Cameltoe Cameltoe <Translating Twiki pg.439>
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Oh please. That's sooooooo 2001. Enough. Really. Enough. Can we get back to actually having fun at the movies again?
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...but do people realize this isn't really a remake of a 1980 TV series, and that Buck Rogers first appeared in the 1930s or 40s, in the original Flash Gordon era??
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Has gotten kind of bloated as of recent.
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Tom Everett Scott. At least its not on his IMDbizzle list. Though one episode was directed by Bad Assss him self Mario Van Peebles.
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Wrong fucking TB. Damn thats twice today.
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this is probably just put out there as a preemptive strike of people saying that Frank Miller won't direct again after The Spirit bombs.
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I'm glad that Frank got to make his 'The Spirit' film a reality, but I'm far more excited to see him tackle this character, to be honest about it. Also, all y'all geeks are assuming an awful lot about our own opinions. A large portion of the film going world does not give one turds worth of consideration to the AICN TalkBalks when deciding whether or not to see a film. I've had several friends and family members ask me what's up with 'The Spirit' because they think it looks, "cool".
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Dec. 20, 2008, 3:26 a.m. CST
Hopefully he'll die of a coke overdose before production starts.
by Bob Cryptonight
Hopefully he'll die of a coke overdose before production starts. Sometimes ya really NEED fate to intervene.
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Please. :(
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better still, fuck spielberg and will smith for wanting to remake oldboy! "we're going to the original novel" my ass! <p> for geeks who constantly proclaim to be champions of artists with visions, and not hacks, you guys are really showing it. yes, keep putting ratner and his ilks in business. i heard conan is coming. no doubt paul anderson is busy sabotaging another geek property, as usual. <p> an artist like miller try his hands at directing, and you guys never give him a fucking chance. fuck miller? oh, but you love nolan's TDK. you only watched it 12 times in theater and is already waiting in line for the dvd! yeah fuck the guy who made it happen.
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before he turned into one of the world's the greatest filmmakers. ditto terry gilliam. kurosawa was a painter. hitchcock was a set designer. tarantino worked as video store clerk. you think they gave a shit when someone told them to stick to their dayjobs and leave film directing to someone else? <p> miller is an artist. and that's the O-N-L-Y reason you need to go into directing. training is nothing. just look at the entire paul anderson's shitty filmography. how much training does he need before he can make a watchable film? miller already directed half of sincity. and it IS a great film, no matter how your shitty taste might let you believe otherwise.
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Miller only loves killing and death. And more killing. And blood and death. Oh, yeah, and tits. Great guy to adapt fun retro sci-fi - "oooo, let's take Buck Rogers make it dark like all his other crap." I think I'll go and make my own Buck Rogers film. I'll use a Fisher Price camera and film Lego toys. Guaranteed it will be more inspired, witty and fatihful to the original material than anything that Miller could make.
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Why not Martha Washington? She would translate nicely to the big screen. …Just please don’t go all “Tank Girl” on us. For what it’s worth, I still have faith in Mr. Miller and I’ll be at the 12:01 showing for the next Buck Rodgers.
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