Buck Rogers Goes 3D

People really need to get off this whole Paul W.S. Anderson bandwagon because, frankly speaking, I'm tired of having to wade through three paragraphs of how much the guy sucks before every news story I read about a movie he's making.  Event Horizon was decent; Death Race was mindlessly enjoyable; AvP was still more enjoyable than the sequel and Resident Evil, while not the George Romero film for which fanboys were hoping, certainly wasn't any better or worse than most middle-of-the-road horror flicks made by lesser directors who don't take half the crap hoisted upon Anderson.

According to Deadline, Anderson is developing a 3D version of Buck Rogers for Paradox, the company currently behind Marcus Nispel's Conan remake. The film, which will be written by Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, will tell the old, familiar story of Buck Rogers, a fighter pilot who is transported to the 25^th Century where he must assist in defending the planet. Rogers has a rich narrative history:

The character launched in the 1920s and has been the subject of comic books, radio and movie serials, and two TV series, the latter of which ran on NBC and starred Gil Gerard.

Anderson is currently working on an adaptation of The Three Musketeers that we imagine will really be nothing at all like the source material. But check back with UGO for more on Buck Rogers as development continues.