George Clooney Joins Reboot Of Classic Sci-Fi Series Buck Rogers | George clooney

George Clooney could be heading to space once again after it was announced that he joined the team to prepare for a reboot of the classic sci-fi series Buck Rogers.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that the project, written by Brian K Vaughan of Under the Dome, could be a “star vehicle” for Clooney, who will be the executive producer of the series.

The character Buck Rogers is a war veteran who falls into a coma and awakens in the 25th century. Following the success of a late 1970s film, a television series followed with Gil Gerard, as the US Army Air Corps Officer, and Erin Gray.

Rogers first appeared in the 1920s before becoming a mainstay of comics in the 1930s, with adaptations to radio, television, and film, all before 1950.

Clooney is in the award race for yet another post-apocalyptic sci-fi project in the guise of Netflix’s The Midnight Sky. He has joined the project as executive producer, alongside his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov, while Flint Dille – the grandson of original Buck Rogers publisher John F Dille – will produce.

There have been failed attempts to revive the Rogers franchise, with Frank Miller, the Sin City comic book writer turned filmmaker, announcing in 2008 that he was working on a film adaptation of the story, but it didn’t. never seen the light of day.

Earlier reports indicated the reboot would revert to the character’s first appearance in the 1928 story, Armageddon 2419 AD, where Rogers is portrayed as a WWI soldier trapped in a collapse while investigating strange phenomena in an abandoned coal mine in Pennsylvania.

In the story, Rogers is exposed to radioactive gas and awakens almost 500 years later in the 25th century and helps a resistance force attempt to recapture the United States, which has been taken over by a conquering force.

The original 1970s TV show was part of a nostalgia-fueled streaming boom during the pandemic. It is part of the programming of Forces TV, the commercial arm of the British Forces Broadcasting Service, a charity that provides television and radio to members of the armed forces.