'Buckaroo Banzai'By Nisha Gopalan

Remember how at the end of "The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension," there was a cruel teaser for a sequel titled "Buckaroo Bonzai Against the World Crime League?" Or perhaps you don't…because that promise was made, oh, 24 years ago.

Well, MTV News chatted with that movie's co-creator/writer Earl Mac Rauch -- currently working on a slew of new Buckaroo comic books -- to find out if cinema's only neuroscientist, rock star, race-car driver, physicist, adventurist (in yo' face, Indiana Jones!) will ever bring his brand of intergalactic, space-time continuum antics to the big screen again. And the answer? Just maybe.

"We had so many ideas," says Rauch. The scribe also remembers a "Buckaroo" TV series almost coming to light back in '99, before suddenly falling apart. "The pilot was very close to happening," he laments. "We would've gone to casting." But he, too, has steadfastly hung onto the hope of another "Buckaroo" feature film and he even has a rough plot for it. Read More...

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