Somebody at Legendary has incredible taste. Every time I see a project that looks like a good idea of something cool from the pop culture past, in turns out to be a Legendary project.
I loved that show. It combined everything I loved at that time (I was way more of a science fiction, space opera guy as an adolescent), and right at the perfect time Erin Gray "awakened" some other things that were going on. She's the first actress I used to be enthralled by, on a male/female wavelength.
Yeah, there were many attractive actresses that guest-starred on that show, but even as a kid, I wondered why Buck would ever chase after them when he had Wilma Deering?
Yeah, there were many attractive actresses that guest-starred on that show, but even as a kid, I wondered why Buck would ever chase after them when he had Wilma Deering?
Because he's a professional!
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I wish them luck, I love this pulpy material, but it seems like these older properties from pre-1940 usually fail financially for some reason.
Legend of Tarzan, John Carter, The Phantom, The Shadow, etc. all had a tough time finding an audience. Only the re-imagined pulp stuff that Lucas did -- Star Wars and Indiana Jones -- seemed to gain traction.
I guess The Phantom and The Shadow both have the added expense of period shoots, which add to the expense, but I always love them. John Carter, meanwhile, had to look all alieny/different planet. Buck Rogers has to look all futurey, so that's a lot of CGI costs, and my eyes tend to get tired looking at a lot of that for 90 minutes.
What to do, what to do? The Phantom does have a built-in generational story in place, so it might be best next time to try a modern-day Phantom. Buck Rogers is a Rip Van Winkle character, so it would be good to make use of his origin and maybe film him in current 21 Century to keep expenses down.
Buck Rogers has to look all futurey, so that's a lot of CGI costs, and my eyes tend to get tired looking at a lot of that for 90 minutes.
Yeah, that would be my concern. There have been several big-budget futuristic sci-fi movies that ended up having a generic feel to audiences, who didn't rush out to see them. If I were the director / producer, a lot of thought would go into differentiating myself from those.
His name is cool, so they should really emphasize the tough, heroic aspects of the character. The subtext of Buck Rogers should be kind of like Steve Rogers -- the future he's in is kind of antiseptic, clean, etc. and they're getting attacked by some nasty threat that they might not be up to. He turns out to be Mr. Awesome and embody a kind of heroism they've lost.
It's a perpetual metaphor for present times -- because we often feel like the heroes of old have faded away. But part of the problem is that we have somewhat lost the idea of a true hero today in the narrative sense. And whenever a show successfully captures that feeling, it's really popular with people. It's really filling a void and resonating with people who weren't even looking for it.
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