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05-09-2008, 12:03 AM
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Frank Miller to Direct New Buck Rogers $40 Million Dollar Movie
Check it out troops, Buck Rogers is returning to the big screen:
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05-09-2008, 07:44 AM
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Re: Frank Miller to Direct New Buck Rogers $40 Million Dollar Movie
While I think Miller could do an outstanding job with the material, a $40 million budget isn't going to produce a film that can be a blockbuster. But a return to the property's roots could result in a cool movie, especially if it has a look all its own, like Sin City and (perhaps) The Spirit.
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05-09-2008, 08:37 AM
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Re: Frank Miller to Direct New Buck Rogers $40 Million Dollar Movie
Yea, i was going to say $40 million doesnt buy you much of a sci-fi blockbuster movie these days.
<---Says a guy who paid money to see Buck Rogers in the 25th Century in the theater, back in the 70s. And we know that sucked...as a movie.
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05-09-2008, 08:42 AM
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Re: Frank Miller to Direct New Buck Rogers $40 Million Dollar Movie
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The current plan is to turn “the cheapness of the low-budget effects will be a running joke in the movie, which will retain the campiness of the 1980s TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century starring Gil Gerard.”
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And I'm out.
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05-09-2008, 08:44 AM
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Re: Frank Miller to Direct New Buck Rogers $40 Million Dollar Movie
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The current plan is to turn “the cheapness of the low-budget effects will be a running joke in the movie, which will retain the campiness of the 1980s TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century starring Gil Gerard.”
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If this is true I'm not interested. There are enough bad movies that come out without producers *intentionally* making crap. I'd rather they show some ingenuity and try to overcome a low budget instead of apologizing for it through self-reflexive jokes. |
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05-09-2008, 11:31 AM
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Re: Frank Miller to Direct New Buck Rogers $40 Million Dollar Movie
I have to image with Frank Miller on board, it would have to have some subversive quality, a grittiness or at least respect for the source material.
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05-09-2008, 02:54 PM
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Re: Frank Miller to Direct New Buck Rogers $40 Million Dollar Movie
I love Millers comic work, but this sounds awful. I'll cross my fingers.
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05-09-2008, 03:19 PM
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Re: Frank Miller to Direct New Buck Rogers $40 Million Dollar Movie
Oh my God. I am stunned at how terrible this sounds. Good grief, I just re-read Batman year One and The Dark Knight Returns this week! The man is a genius.
But maybe he has finally gone loopy. 
Death to PG-13! And now death to DVNR too!!
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05-09-2008, 03:22 PM
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Re: Frank Miller to Direct New Buck Rogers $40 Million Dollar Movie
"Finally"? I thought he'd been nuts for years.
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"What? Since when was this an energy ball movie?" - Overheard during a screening of Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive
"What the hell religion are you people?" - Overheard during the Captain Marvel serial at SF/29
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