Deadline is reporting that Buck Rogers is heading back to the big screen, with Angryfilms working on an adaptation of the original 1928 novella Armageddon 2419 A.D., which introduced the pulp hero to the world.
The new film is being written by Flint Dille (The Transformers: The Movie) and Ed Neumeier (RoboCop) and “will focus on a future informed by the present and predicts a 2419 based on scientific/technological advances in the 90 years since the novel was originally published. The Rogers character, having lost everyone he loved centuries ago, will be darker and more brooding, a fish out of water who struggles to find a way to fit in with a war-torn world.”
Created by Philip Francis Nowlan, Anthony ‘Buck’ Rogers first appeared in the pages of Amazing Stories, and went on to spawn a hugely popular comic strip and radio serial before starring in a 12-part movie serial in 1939. Two further TV series followed, the second of which – Buck Rogers in the 25th Century – had its pilot released as a theatrical film in 1979.
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Originally published July 10, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
