Buck Rogers, what could have been...
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Interesting work there that I would have liked to have seen further.
Unfortunately, current Hollywood doesn’t know what to do with characters like Buck Rogers….in some ways, I’m glad that they have forgotten he exists, otherwise we would be delivered a deconstructed and twisted product that hardly resembles what was originally created.
They know exactly what to do in 2022. You make a bad movie and then call the fans toxic!
This seems like one of those properties that you here keep changing hands and then they get hopes up of a new show, and then it dies.
This seems like one of those properties that you here keep changing hands and then they get hopes up of a new show, and then it dies.
That young guy in the sepia-toned video appeared to be wearing lipstick. It distracted me from the rest of what was going on.
As a setting, 1930s America doesn't interest me much. It was the depression and life sucked. That was pretty much the defining trait of the era.
The 1930s can be interesting if the show visits exotic places. Like an Indiana Jones movie.
As a setting, 1930s America doesn't interest me much. It was the depression and life sucked. That was pretty much the defining trait of the era.
The 1930s can be interesting if the show visits exotic places. Like an Indiana Jones movie.
TazMan2000
Master Member
I agree with Axlotl . 1930's? C'mon.
The sepia tones do not "bring me back to the times". They're downright irritating. Even at my earliest recollection, I perceived colour. The technology with the ships and the time wouldn't have brought in viewers. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century had some success and some of the ships are still popular today but it was a victim of bad story writing, and Disco Buck didn't do the show any favours. Nowadays viewers expect more.
TazMan2000
The sepia tones do not "bring me back to the times". They're downright irritating. Even at my earliest recollection, I perceived colour. The technology with the ships and the time wouldn't have brought in viewers. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century had some success and some of the ships are still popular today but it was a victim of bad story writing, and Disco Buck didn't do the show any favours. Nowadays viewers expect more.
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Riceball
Master Member
But a Buck Rogers reboot wouldn't be set in the '30s, it would be set in the 25th century just like the original serials and the '80s version. What's being talked about is not setting it in the '30s but making it using a '30 aesthetic sort of resembling the old serials.
CB2001
Master Member
Not just Erin Grey. Her daughter Samantha played Buck's girlfriend Maddy in the web series.
Just film Musk’s Starship in back and white…put a lightning bolt on a speed suit with disk shoulder pads—and have at it,
CB2001
Master Member
What do you think this was a bad idea?
Horrible idea, Tinseltown puts out enough awful rebooted fan fic!
CB2001
Master Member
This wasn't even a "tinseltown" product. This was some indie filmmaker.
JPH
Sr Member
Use actors from the old color show, similar ships from the old black and whites,
and from there
just go bonkers making something as un-Buck Rogers as possible.
Buck Rogers and the Grapes of Wrath.
Followed by AlienZzzz the snoozicle
Flash Gordon, Exhibitionist from Another Time ...he teams up with Commando Cody
those dern, whiney, un-appreciative fans!
Thats my point Tinseltown puts out enough rebooted fan fic with out James doing it as well…
CB2001
Master Member
At least he tried to do something he was passionate about. You can't say that about half of the film studios nowadays.
You know what they say the road to hell…..
CB2001
Master Member
Not really. I don’t think anyone’s seen it, so I don’t think anyone says anything about it. XD
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