Buck Rogers is come up to the twenty - first century . James Cawley , manufacturer of the Star Trek : Phase II buff series , has find the rights to do a Buck Rogers webseries with the same care to detail .
Cawley stresses the project is n’t a fan film , because it ’s a fully licensed yield with professionals behind the camera and in front of it . But at the same time , the undertaking , which may take off streaming online as ahead of time as fall 2010 , is very much in the feel of Cawley ’s earlier buff plastic film , in terms of referencing earlier work . Cawley ’s working on the hand for the first episode now , but apparently it ’ll retell the classic Buck origin : he ’s a World War I plane pilot , who gets caught in suspended animation until the 25th one C , where he battles fantastical enemies .
The production will have a “ retro - present-day ” expression using modern techniques like CG to multiply the look of the original comic . Cawley severalize TrekMovie : “ We will be using the technology we have today , to demo The Original variation of The First Sci - Fi Hero ever ! Previous filmed incarnations never really appropriate the original Buck from the comic strips , which is what we train to do . ” He ’ll keep all the constituent of the original plot line , include the “ atomic disrupter pistol , ” the Earth Defense Directorate and Buck ’s friends Dr. Heuer , Wilma Deering and her brother Buddy Deering . And villain , including Princess Ardala and Killer Kane .
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck will be played by Buddy Rice , who represent James Kirk ’s gay nephew Peter in a recent Phase II storyline . Both Rice and Cawley stress this wo n’t be for cantonment note value .
We could be about to see a Buck Rogers detonation , what with a newfangled comic series on the way and a Frank Miller - helmed motion picture supposedly still in the pipeline . But the Cawley webseries might collide with before the Miller movie ( if it even still happens ) , and garner more attention than a funnies series . I ’m happy to see anything that wreak more hump to quad opera house on film , since the optical literary genre has fall behind behind the quad opera ledger genre in late years . But I ’m enquire why place opera house always has to look retro , particularly with J.J. Abrams ’ Trek decease back to an old - school day reading of the future as well . [ TrekMovie ]
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