Frank Miller and Odd Lot Entertainment, who are the team behind the big-screen adaptation of Will Eisner’s “The Spirit,” are close to teaming again on the classic sci-fi property “Buck Rogers.”

Miller is going to be writing and directing the adaptation, and while he tells The Hollywood Reporter that he’s only started on preliminary work, that it will be a darker take on the character and focus on issues of redemption and corruption.

One of the first fictional “pop” characters to take on space exploration, Buck Rogers started initially as a comic serial in the 1920’s and early 1930’s and has seen numerous adaptations, including both television and film versions, over the years since then. ABC had a TV series in the ’50s, and NBC produced both a film and TV series in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which imagined the space explorer as someone who woke up in the 25th century to find Earth destroyed and thus began his exploration of space.

Buck Rogers first appeared in 1928 as Anthony Rogers, the hero of two novellas written by Philip Francis Nowlan published in “Amazing Stories”. He has since gone onto become a cult pulp science fiction hero and archetype that has inspired a variety of science fiction characters.

Frank Miller came to the forefront of comics with the beginning of his run on Marvel’s “Dardevil” in 1979, making the character darker and more crime- and martial arts-oriented, as well as his groundbreaking work on the now-legendary “The Dark Knight Returns” in 1986 and “Sin City” in 1991. He has since gone on to become of the most well-known mainstream names in comics.

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By Costa Koutsoutis, (Source: Hollywoodreporter.com)