Disney or Sci Fi doing a Buck Rogers script. That sounds like a choice
between Collera and Typhoid. It may have the title but will probably
have nothing to due with any of the sanctioned books or the TV series.
I'd rather get Hensen's monster factory to write it.

JP



--- In Buck_Rogers_25th@yahoogroups.com, "Cisco" <daddyahoh@a...> wrote:
> Okay.
>
> This isn't an official "I got it from some website" piece of info. A
> friend of mine that works for The Sci-Fi Channel in New York told me
> this yesterday (on Sunday, May 8th):
>
> As some of you may know, Disney bought up the rights to Buck Rogers
> in 1997 to develop a project of sorts out of it (probably a movie).
> A few scripts got tossed around, but even it all went silent. Well,
> my friend "Chuck" (not his real name, but we'll just call him that
> since he wasn't supposed to tell me about this at all) told me he
> overheard some talk around the cooler about The Sci-Fi Channel
> buying up the rights for Buck Rogers off of Disney in hopes to
> develop a new series based off of it, using their recent success
> with the new Battlestar Galactica as proof that the new Buck series
> will sell to the public for sure (given the right actors, writers,
> directors, ect.).
>
> Now I don't know if "Chuck" is pulling my leg or not (he does know
> I'm a monstrously rabid Buck Rogers fan), but if the info is true
> (which I sadly have no way to verify it) then we may be in store for
> the return to TV of the original space hero!
>
> WOO-HOO!
>
> - Cisco