Buck Rogers is coming to the twenty-first century. James Cawley, producer of the Star Trek: Phase II fan series, has gotten the rights to do a Buck Rogers webseries with the same attention to detail.Cawley stresses the project isn't a fan film, because it's a fully licensed production with professionals behind the camera and in front of it. But at the same time, the project, which may start streaming online as early as fall 2010, is very much in the spirit of Cawley's earlier fan films, in terms of referencing earlier works. Cawley's working on the script for the first episode now, but apparently it'll retell the classic Buck origin: he's a World War I airplane pilot, who gets caught in suspended animation until the 25th century, where he battles fantastical enemies.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Buck Rogers web series
Could be good, could be horrible. I like the retro feel myself. [Link]
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The Phase II guys are doing some of the most innovative fan film work around--I wrote all about how they started their series it in my new book about the history and future of fan films, Homemade Hollywood, which just came out in bookstores.
Also, for what it's worth,
if you want to find out more about the world of fan films, you might want to check out my daily fan film blog, fancinematoday.com.
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