George Clooney is looking to update Buck Rogers for the 21st century.
The movie star, along with production partner Grant Heslov, is expected to executive produce for Legendary a limited TV series about the iconic sci-fi character, which – in one way or another, depending on which take you read / watched – got stuck in suspended animation for about 500 years, finally waking up in the 25th century.
Brian K. Vaughan, whose writing credits include episodes of Lost and Under the domein addition to the comic book series The last man, will write the series. No networks are yet connected.
Amid reports that Clooney is also considering the project as a main vehicle, the actor’s representative told our sister ste Variety that this is not the case.
The best-known live-action incarnation of the time-shifted hero, Buck Rogers in the 25th century, originated in 1979 as a film release that was commissioned for a series, and ran from September 1979 to April 1981. The often extravagant series starred Gil Gerard as the titular space captain, while the cast also included Erin Gray as Colonel Wilma Deering [dreamy sigh] and Tim O’Connor as Dr. Elias Huer. The great Mel Blanc, however, expressed the capricious robot partner Twiki (biddi-biddi-biddi)
What do you want and expect for a new version of Buck’s TV?