Duck Dodgers spinoff when?
After going to the stars in Solaris, Gravity, and its recently run The Midnight Heaven, George Clooney he reserved for himself another one-way ticket to outer space. The Wrap reports that Clooney will produce a new version of the TV series about the influential character in the series Buck Rogers – and more, he will star in that too.
For those unfamiliar, Buck Rogers was originally created and introduced in the 1928 pulp novel Armageddon 2419 AD by the author Philip Francis Nowlan. He was a success, appearing in many other popular stories, comic books and radio series after his intergalactic adventures. On the screen, he appeared in 1930s film series, a 1950 ABC TV series, and a 1979 NBC TV series. His stories helped popularize science fiction as an accessible, fun and familiar genre, combining technological space exploration with classic swashbuckling heroism. It is not an exaggeration to say that Star Wars without Buck Rogers.
Clooney will produce this new TV version of the character with a regular production partner Grant Heslov through its Smokehouse banner (Catch-22) to the studio of the moment Legendary (Godzilla vs. Kong). And while the character he would play is not reported, Wrap reports that he is in negotiations with Legendary to star in the series. Will he play Buck Rogers himself? An older version of the character handing over the reins to his grandson played by a novice? Will he just give the robot a voice and end the day?
Don Murphy and Susan Montford will also produce the series through its Angry Films banner (Real steel), as well as the screenwriter Flint Dille, the grandson of the original Buck Rogers editor John F. Dille. The prolific multimedia writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man) was chosen to write the series. No other network, plot or cast details are known yet.
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