Frank Miller on the set of 300 (2007).
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Would Miller Do BUCK ROGERS?
By: Associate News EditorDate: Friday, May 09, 2008
IGN Movies posted a report from a "longtime reliable source" that Frank Miller might possibly direct a big screen version of BUCK ROGERS. Nu Image/Millennium Films would produce.
When the site contacted the production company they were "advised that no deal is set yet for the rights or Miller, and that they are still mulling over director contenders."
The word going around still is that Flint Dille, who penned a BUCK ROGERS graphic novel in the 1990s, will write and produce the new movie, which IGN was told will be budgeted in the $40 million range.
The fictional character first appeared in 1928 as Anthony Rogers, the hero of two novellas by Philip Francis Nowlan. They were published in the Amazing Stories magazine. Rogers is best known from the long-running syndicated newspaper comic strip. He also appeared in a movie serial, a television series, and in many other formats.
In the original stories, Rogers, while surveying an abandoned mine, falls into a coma after exposure to a leaking gas. He awakes in the twenty-fifth century. Together with his new comrades, the beautiful Wilma Deering and the intrepid Dr. Huer, he struggles to rid the world of evil warlords and "Mongol" hordes.
In 1933, Nowlan and Dick Calkins co-wrote BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY, a novella that retold the origin of Buck Rogers and also summarized some of his adventures.
