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George Clooney is being eyed to star in and will executive produce a new tv adaptation of “Buck Rogers” for Legendary.

George Clooney along with his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov have backed Brian K. Vaughan's Buck Rogers series.

The character Buck Rogers is a war veteran who falls into a coma and wakes up in the 25th century. After the success of a late 70s film a TV series followed starring Gil Gerard, as the US army air corps officer, and Erin Gray. Rogers first appeared in the 1920s before becoming a comic book mainstay in the 1930s, with early radio, TV and film adaptations, all before 1950. Clooney is in the awards race for another post-apocalyptic sci-fi project in the guise of Netflix’s The Midnight Sky. He ha...

Brian K. Vaughan to script Buck Rogers reboot Back in October it was announced that Legendary Pictures had acquired the rights to Buck Rogers with plans for a multi-platform reboot of the classic sci-fi character, including a feature film and prestige TV series. Well, we now have word that Brian K. Vaughan, the comic book creator behind the likes of Runaways, Saga and Y: The Last Man, has signed on to write the television component. Vaughn does have past TV experience, having written episod...

Award-winning comic book creator Brian K. Vaughan has been tapped to write the television adaptation of Buck Rogers for Legendary.

Legendary is backing the new show. Get the info at Empire.