The long-gestating reboot of the iconic sci-fi adventure hero Buck Rogers just got a major update.
Who is making the Buck Rogers reboot movie?
Legendary Entertainment, known for films like Dune and the MonsterVerse series, is working on a new Buck Rogers movie. The project has been in development since 2020, but hadn’t seen much progress until now. TheWrap reports that Zeb Wells is now writing the latest version of the script.
Beau DeMayo is a writer known for his contributions to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, particularly within the Multiverse Saga. While he initially contributed uncredited writing to Thor: Love and Thunder and The Marvels, he officially joined the writing team for Deadpool & Wolverine, collaborating with Ryan Reynolds and others. He also led the writing for the animated series Marvel Zombies.
Buck Rogers was created by Philip Francis Nowlan and first appeared in the 1928 story “Armageddon 2419 A.D.” The story is about a mine inspector who wakes up after being frozen for 500 years and finds himself in the middle of a war across planets. A daily comic strip, “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D.”, quickly became popular and ran in newspapers for nearly 40 years, ending in 1967. The futuristic world depicted in Buck Rogers is well-known for inspiring the Tomorrowland area of Disneyland, and the character itself paved the way for many similar characters, most notably Flash Gordon.
It’s been a really long time – almost 45 years – since we’ve seen Buck Rogers in a movie or on TV. I learned that the very first time Buck Rogers was adapted for the screen was way back in 1939! It was a 12-part serial film made by Universal, and Buster Crabbe played Buck. There was also a TV show in the early 50s on ABC, but sadly, almost all of it is gone. Only one episode from that series has survived, which is a shame!
The 1979 Universal movie, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, with Gil Gerard as the star, is likely the most well-known version of the story. It began as a longer TV pilot episode, but Universal decided to release it in cinemas half a year before the TV series aired on NBC. The movie earned $21.7 million despite only costing $3.5 million to make. The TV series itself ran for two seasons and 37 episodes on NBC and, so far, represents the final time Buck Rogers has been adapted for the screen.
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2025-10-29 22:06