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If you thought the discofied Buck Rogers show and movies like Star Crash were ridiculously over-the-top examples of disco space opera, then you haven't seen Escape From Galaxy 3. It's possibly the most offensively terrible, wonderfully Bacchanalian film we've ever seen. How much cocaine do you think they needed to consume to get the correct amount of sparkles and borderline-obscene leotards into every frame? More »
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In case you'd forgotten how mind-blowing the art of the late Frank Frazetta and Frank Miller is, an art-lover paid a record-breaking $101,575 for Miller's black-and-white cover image for Daredevil #188. Check out Frazetta's even more expensive art below. More »
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We're back, taking it to the tweets and tearing an unsuspecting Netflix-able movie a new one. But the twist is, this week, you guys decide which film gets to feel our collective wrath. More »
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Hal Jordan's looking beat-up in Green Lantern pics. Photos from Nolan's Inception reveal nothing, but look awesome. I Am Number Four gets a star, and Zoe Saldana talks Spock/Uhura nookie. Plus Lost, Iron Man, Buck Rogers, Supernatural and Chuck spoilers! More »
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Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson has just gotten started on his next project, a reboot of Buck Rogers. We asked him where he was at with the script, and what to expect. More »
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Paul W.S. Anderson explains what to expect from his Buck Rogers movie, and Kevin Feige talks Marvel movie crossovers. Transformers 3's next Decepticon, unmasked! Stargate's alien villain is a former Heroes star. Plus Doctor Who, Fringe, Sorcerer's Apprentice and Supernatural. More »
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Video-game movie mastermind Paul W.S. Anderson will be directing Buck Rogers, the movie. Thank goodness the screenplay was penned by the Iron Man scribes. But it's still likely to be a disaster of epic proportions. More »
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To those waiting decades to see Buck Rogers In The 25th Century's Gil Gerard and Erin Grey together again: Your patience has been rewarded! But this time, the onetime Buck is his own father in a new web-based Buck Rogers. More »
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Worried that Frank Miller's rumored Buck Rogers movie would be another Spirit-esque mess? Don't be; according to IGN, Miller is no longer involved with the project. Guess someone realized Buck would never have a monologue about loving his city. [IGN] More »
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Yesterday, we showed you the first pic of the updated Tron Legacy outfits, but we can't help but wonder what the designers of Dynamite's Buck Rogers revamp feel about seeing them. Apparently, partially-glowing bodysuits are very 2010... More »
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The Holiday Season is officially on us again, and that can mean only one thing that isn't watching Christmas In Connecticut over and over again: Time to think about gift-giving (and getting). Where better to start than with toys? More »
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Is escapism the enemy of smart science fiction? Are stories that let us escape reality always inconsequential fluff? That's what people argue — but the reverse is true. Escapism is a literary impulse, and escapist art is the highest art. More »
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Spock gives you the rundown on using models and moxie to create blockbuster science fiction sequences, in this 1985 video. It's a rare look at the era between Star Wars and the rise of CG. [Props via Mary Robinette Kowal] More »
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The Romulan mining vessel Narada undulates as it prepares to claim another defenseless planet. Spaceship design has come a long way since the 1960s. Here's a gallery of five different eras in starships, battlecruisers and planet-destroyers, with 150+ images. More »
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The first issue of Dynamite Entertainment's Buck Rogers promises a potentially bright future ahead... as long as we can all get past the difficult launch. Spoilers (and deadly bears) ahead! More »
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Evil wins, superheroes go bad, sidekicks go solo, time gets reset and Buck Rogers makes his comeback. Oh, and there's a Wrath of Khan comic. Is there nothing that this week's comics won't do to try and make you happy? More »
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We're all hoping if Star Trek is a blockbuster, it'll bring space opera back to our screens. But space opera hasn't always hit the high notes. Here are some examples of space opera done wrong. More »
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Dynamite's Buck Rogers comic series starts with a whole lot of Buck kicking ass (if giant amoebas had them, which I kind of doubt) and taking names (which, actually, the amoebas also don't have). More »
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Arriving in stores today is Buck Rogers #0, a 25 cent preview of the upcoming revival of science fiction's first man out of time. Click through for a couple of pages. More »
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It's a sad week for comics this week; a week I'd hoped would never come: The first appearances of annoying X-Men Gambit are being collected to tie in with his upcoming movie debut. I'm sorry. More »
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He may be a man in the wrong century, but the new comic incarnation of Buck Rogers is looking pretty timely for publisher Dynamite Entertainment, with the first issue reaching a record number for publisher. More »
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Dynamite Entertainment has released Alex Ross's painted cover for the first issue of its new Buck Rogers series, and it's the kind of old-school goodness we'd wanted all along. Click through for the whole thing. More »
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The Buck Rogers revival officially kicks off in May with the release of the first issue of Dynamite's new Buck comic. But what kind of 25th century should we expect? The hero's new writer explains. More »
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Buck Rogers is coming to the twenty-first century. James Cawley, producer of the Star Trek: Phase II fan series, has gotten the rights to do a Buck Rogers webseries with the same attention to detail. More »
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Rumored for so long that you'd be forgiven for thinking it was already a done deal, sources are now saying that The Spirit's Frank Miller is close to officially signing on to direct Buck Rogers. More »
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Just in time for your gift-buying frenzy, comics publishers are putting out some brainwarping space opera tales — mostly in a classy hardcover format. This week, Marvel is reprinting two storylines that follow up the Annihilation saga, of invasion from beyond our universe. Another new hardcover collects two years of classic Buck Rogers strips. And DC wants to take you back to when the Legion of Superheroes was still great. These are just some of the new comics that we're craving this week. More »
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This year sees the 80th birthday of time-traveling American hero Buck Rogers, the comic strip and movie serial hero who also made the 25th century both a weekly destination and strangely sexy for a generation of children in the early 1980s (Okay, that last part may have had a lot to do with Erin Gray's Wilma Deering for a lot of viewers, I admit). Unlike most octogenarians, Buck's future is looking bright (There's a new comic and new movie both on the way), but we have to admit - we'd rather he stayed in the Old Folks Home and let someone new take his place. More »
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We may know him as someone who lives in a pineapple under the sea, but that doesn't mean that Spongebob Squarepants can't try out a new home every now and again - say, perhaps, in outer space? Cartooning genius Roger Langridge has been clearing out his virtual cupboard and has uncovered this little-seen official Spongebob strip that sees the character re-created as space hero Spongebuck Blasterpants. We're seeing a whole new franchise possibility here, people. More »
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Hey, remember when we were told that Frank Miller was definitely not directing a new Buck Rogers movie? Looks like Flint Dille, one of the producers of the movie, was a little bit hasty when saying that Miller wasn't involved. The 25th Century may very soon be filled with futuristic femme fatales and unconvincing CGI backdrops. More »
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Comics auteur-turned-director Frank Miller is just putting the finishing touches on his movie version of Will Eisner's The Spirit, but he's already looking ahead. Producer Deborah Del Prete told Collider she's working with Miller on revamping a "classic scifi hero." But it's too soon to say which one. Flash Gordon? Buck Rogers? Dan Dare? I'm intrigued by the idea of a Miller pulp scifi movie, since I loved The Big Guy And Rusty The Boy Robot, and his futuristic Martha Washington stories at least started well. Meanwhile, Del Prete also says she's talking to Orson Scott Card about doing an Ender's Game movie, which was still in the hands of Chartoff Productions last we heard. [Collider] More »
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The holiday season is upon us, and already we're flooded with the scifi toy must-haves for everyone's wish list. I can't think of any child that would be sad with a gruesome removable head Harvey Dent figure, a Clone Wars stromtrooper helmet and an ROBOT TRICERATOPS. We've gathered all of the best toys for your view pleasure, make plans for the robo-dino revolution. More »
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You're always hearing about Flash Gordon this and Buck Rogers that. You see Flash and Buck, snorting their comet-dust and dancing with robots with obscenely shaped heads. But nobody ever thinks about Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, who rocked just as hard back in the 1950s. Did Buck have a comedy sidekick named Winky? Or a sassy navigator named Vena, in go-go boots? Or zig-zag lightning braid on his jacket-cuffs? Here's a clip where Rocky and Winky deal with some sabotage of the Space Affairs Agency. You'll never guess who the saboteur is! More »
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Click to viewIn the new Indiana Jones movie, opening Thursday, Cate Blanchett wears kinky boots and gets Indy under her thumb in more ways than one. But is she actually the greatest dominatrix in science fiction history? We decided to see how Cate stacks up against the classics of the genre, from the villain of Devil Girl From Mars to the heroine of Gene Simmons' Dominatrix. (Plus great dommes from Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica.)
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Say goodbye to your hopes for a dark Sin City style Buck Rogers: Frank Miller is definitely not directing the Buck movie, says Flint Dille, the movie's producer and author of a Buck Rogers graphic novel. This follows on the heels of statements from Nu Image/Millennium Films that "they are still mulling over director contenders." But Dille left the door open for Miller to be involved in the film somehow: "Frank and I are friends, and we'll continue to meddle in each other's projects." More »
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The original science fiction swashbuckler, Buck Rogers, is coming back to the big screen — and writer/director Frank Miller (Sin City, The Spirit) may be involved. How will the pulpy Buck mesh with Miller's trademark candy-coated noir style? Click through to find out. More »
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Everyone's favorite angst-ridden teen aliens will be back on the internet, thanks to The WB. Fans can stream all of Roswell's old episodes from the WB's new website, which is set to launch in August of 2008. Too long have we gone with out the Royal Four of Antar. Science fiction shows are burning up the internet these days: BSG, Firefly, At The Earth's Core, Surface, Land Of The Giants, Buck Rogers and Lost in Space are among the most popular shows on online video site Hulu. It's only a matter of time until more teen scifi such as The Secret World Of Alex Mack join in on the streaming fun. [Syfy Portal] More »
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Buck Rogers faced the same problem that vexed Gilligan, the Professor, and the Skipper. Except instead of "Mary Ann or Ginger?" it was "Wilma or Ardala?" You have to admit, that's a pretty tough choice. Especially since both women are tough, calculating, skilled, and in powerful positions. We all know Buck preferred Colonel Wilma Deering (who outranked him), but there were plenty of scenes where he looked ready to "biddi biddi biddi" with Princess Ardala. Which do you think he should have dated? Examine the evidence and sound off in today's thawed-out triviagasm. More »
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Wall-E may be the cutest lil robot ever to hit our screens, but he's also the latest in a long line. It seems like wherever you go in scifi, you have to step over a cute chirpy little bot, who whistles, or tweets out a little catchphrase — including R2D2 from Star Wars, Twiki from Buck Rogers and K-9 from Doctor Who. The cute-robot trend may have taken off in the late 70s, but it really began with 1972's Silent Running, as you can see from the clip above. Click through to find out how Bruce Dern's little robot friends changed science fiction forever. More »
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It looks like the U.S. Navy was able to pull off a real-life game of missile command last night, and successfully shot down our ailing superspy satellite while everyone was busy gawping at the lunar eclipse. Hey, that's exactly how the script for the failed reboot of Buck Rogers began... does that mean we just sent a frozen astronaut into deep orbit somewhere? Strangely, the military lackey in this video doesn't address that issue. More »
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