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EXCLUSIVE: 'Buck Rogers' Director Paul WS Anderson Sees His Lead As A 'Big Movie Star Role'

Posted 4/21/10 3:39 pm EST by in Hot Stuff, News


"Resident Evil: Afterlife" director Paul WS Anderson is taking a break from his latest feature-length treatment of the Umbrella Corporation's legacy to address crowds as a keynote speaker at the first annual 3D Gaming Summit. Anderson has a great background in both games and film.

"I've been involved in both [mediums] for a long time and I definitely feel the future for me is to become in some way a kind of hybrid game and feature filmmaker," he told MTV in a recent interview. The growing popularity of the 3-D format also contributes to this interconnectedness, and Anderson is completely on board. "I'm a 3-D convert," he said, confirming that he has no intention of not working with the format moving forward. "All 3-D, every day of the week. I'm not taking my glasses off."

These ideas -- 3-D, bridging the gap between games and film -- segue nicely into "Buck Rogers," Anderson's primary focus after "Resident Evil" wraps and the first project for which he'll wholly embrace this new way of thinking. Read More...

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EXCLUSIVE: 'Buck Rogers' Director Paul WS Anderson Promises 'A Very Different Take On The Character'

Posted 4/1/10 1:18 pm EST by in 3-D Week, News


The big news last week was that "Resident Evil" director Paul WS Anderson signed on to helm an adaptation of the long-running sci-fi franchise "Buck Rogers." In 3-D. YES. Anderson shared some of his plans for the flick in an exclusive interview with MTV's Larry Carroll as part of our ongoing 3-D Week coverage.

"That's something I've been working on for a little while, and we are just going to start sending it to people [for casting]," he said, adding, "It's a very different take on the character. I loved that [1979-1981] TV show. It's not going to be that, but it is the same theme as Buck Rogers has always been since the 1920s. It's a relatable man of today who is flung into the far future."

No Lycrya bodysuits though, that's Anderson's promise. Read More...

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Paul W.S. Anderson For 'Buck Rogers': The Pros & Cons

Posted 3/25/10 11:45 am EST by in Commentary


"Buck Rogers." Remember him? The basic premise is pretty simple: a fighter pilot who is surveying an abandoned mine when a strange gas causes him to pass out. He wakes up 500 years later, in the year 2429, and becomes a swashbuckling action hero. Rogers is one of the early space action heroes, finding his contemporaries in characters created by Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Most people nowadays know the character best from the late-70s TV series, but his roots actually lie much further back: Buck Rogers originated in a pair of short stories published in 1928 and 1929.

Variety reported yesterday that Paul W.S. Anderson will be stepping up to helm a big screen adaptation, working off of a script from "Iron Man" writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. The job once belonged to Frank Miller, but Anderson now has the gig. He's someone that film fans have a lot of opinions about. In both directions. So I'm here to consider some of the pros and some of the cons in Anderson taking the reins on "Rogers." Read More...

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Frank Miller Heading Into Space As 'Buck Rogers' Director

Posted 12/19/08 10:45 am EST by in News


'Buck Rogers'The producers behind "The Spirit" obviously have a lot of faith in Frank Miller, because they have just handed him another directing gig. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Miller is in the final negotiations to direct "Buck Rogers" for Oddlot Entertainment and Millennium Films.

"Buck Rogers," for those of you feeling lost, was one of the first major sci-fi stories. In fact, it was the very first sci-fi comic series, kicking off with its first strip in 1929, and it ran until 1967. The series followed an ordinary American and former Air Force pilot who was exposed to a gas that put him in a state of suspended animation for 500 years. He wakes up in the future, where he's eventually recruited to help battle intergalatic menaces to Earth. Read More...

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