Frank Miller to write/direct Buck Rogers

[palitoy]

I agree Mike, I'd love to see the movie in some kind of post modern art deco style too. Let's get the old buzzing rockets back but make them look realistic somehow.

[thunderbolt]

^^^ Just once I'd like to see a period piece superhero movie. Green Lantern or Flash set in the late 50's.

[johnmiic]

Here's what Miller's edict should be for a Buck film. Make it fun! Make it enjoyable! Thrill audiences! Lets not see lots of dark, brooding, disturbed characters. There comes a certain disconnect that Buck will feel, a certain sadness at being thrust 500 years foward and losing all his loved ones and friends but beyond that let the guy show that people can adapt to new surroundings and that he cares about his home and it's people. That would make a good Buck film. Miller can do it if he tries.

I think they should go back to basics on Buck and Flash. They don't have to make a new version of Buck as a wise-craking, macho guy, ( Gil Gerard's portrayal was reportedly dictated by the studio to try and be like Burt Reynolds in Smokey & The Bandit). I would love to see them go back to some of the wild rocket designs from the 30's and just make them work plausibly. They are no less plausible than Lucas's ships in Star Wars or Rodenberry's in Star Trek. We accept them more because I think they abandon simplistic rocket shapes, they are filmed better-different asthetic, they have more detial and are filmed in color,( a very subliminal suggestion that we perceive shows/films in b&w = old but color = new). Alex Ross even said of Flash Gordon, (1981), it need not be like Star Wars. The 1981 film looked like a comic strip come to life.

[ctc]

>Lets not see lots of dark, brooding, disturbed characters

I think that IS Miller's idea of fun....

>They are no less plausible than Lucas's ships in Star Wars or Rodenberry's in Star Trek

AMEN! Unfortunately that doesn't conform to the current idea of the "right" way of doing spaceships. They'll probably end up with super-busy video game looking designs.

>The 1981 film looked like a comic strip come to life.

I thought the 80's Flash Gordon REALLY caught the look of the comic. Maybe not so much the feel and characters, but it definitely had the right look.

Sadly, I think we would have got something closer to the old school Buck had they made it a few years ago, when "steampunk" was hip.

Don C.

[SUP-Ronin]

Twiki will be a midget in a bondage costume.

They already did a version of that.

[Steeler80]

Whatever happened to the days when news of Frank Miller getting hold of a property would thrill me? Now it's like waiting for a train wreck you know's going to happen.