Miller doing Buck Rogers?

Frank Miller and Odd Lot Entertainment, the creator and production
company behind the upcoming comic-book adventure "The Spirit," are
close to teaming again on the classic sci-fi property "Buck Rogers."





Odd Lot, the shingle run by Gigi Pritzker and Deborah Del Prete, is in
negotiations to option the rights to "Rogers" from Nu Image/Millennium,
which obtained those rights this year from the Dille Trust. Millennium
is expected to get a credit on the movie but won't be involved in
day-to-day production.





John Flint Dille, a friend of Miller's, operates the trust, which may
have partly prompted rumors at the time of the Millennium acquisition
that the comic auteur-turned-filmmaker might come aboard to direct. But
Miller was not attached at the time; he only became involved when Odd
Lot entered the picture.





Miller will write and direct his own big-screen take on the comic
serial; while the creator has only begun to sketch ideas, it's expected
to be a darker take, with many of Miller's signature visual elements
and themes, such as corruption and redemption.





It's likely to be a priority project for Miller, though he has been mulling a "Sin City" sequel.





One of the first pop-culture vehicles to tackle the issue of space
exploration, the story of Buck Rogers began life as a comic serial in
the late 1920's and early '30's and has seen numerous film and
television versions over the years.





ABC had a TV series in the '50s, and NBC produced a feature film and TV
series in the late '70s and early '80s, which imagined the space
explorer as someone who woke up in the 25th century to find Earth
destroyed and was then consigned to roam distant planets.





The party that controls the underlying rights has the ability to make
any movie of television series off the property. At the moment, Odd Lot
is planning only on a feature film.





Miller is the acclaimed writer and illustrator behind the graphic novel
franchise "Sin City," which became a hit for the Weinstein Co. in 2004.
He also is behind Warners breakout "300." "The Spirit," which Lionsgate
releases next week, examines the pulpy hero created by Miller mentor
Will Eisner.

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