Hi Everyone,
I've been checking out some of those rumors involving Disney, possibly
making a Buck Rogers film. Their propossed plotline seem to be taken
from the TSR series of books. A pilot flying an experimental
interceptor destroys incomming missles in the outer atmospere. His
fighter is too damaged to continue so he ejects using a crogenic
escape pod. Several hundred years laters he is unthawed to battle evil
intergalactic conglomerites. It sounds like they are going to be doing
a lot of that Communism good individualism bad preaching so many
movies do now a days. That is if they ever get it off the ground.
Unfortunately that is almost the exact reverse of the original intent
of the Buck Rogers books and series.

 

 

I thought the original series was about rebels fighting the Han invaders.  Sort of like the Iraqi insurgents.   I don't remember anything about corporations, evil or otherwise.  I haven't read much of the TSR series so maybe they're there.

 

In a day when corporations cover up the hazards of their products, overexploit natural resources and profit from oil wars, I think Buck would be willing to take them on.

 

~Kevin