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The War of Buck Rogers.

Didn’t think I’d be writing THAT tonight, yet here we are.

The Buck Rogers estate, overseen by the Nowlan Family Trust, on Tuesday fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Legendary about its recent announcement that it was developing a TV reboot of the popular sci-fi property. George Clooney and his Smokehouse partner Grant Heslov are set to executive produce Legendary’s Buck Rogers project with a script by Brian K. Vaughn and Angry Films’ Don Murphy and Susan Montford also producing.

In the brief-ish letter sent by email and snail mail to Michael Ross, Legendary Entertainment’s EVP Business Affairs, the estate contends that “the Buck Rogers interests” have already penned an agreement with David Ellison’s Skydance Productions to exploit the property.

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Put me down for Buck Rogers…

…what?

Look, I know that Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Epic Series looks like somebody vomited up a fashion disaster and everything, but consider that the only viable alternative SF universe to live in (Star Trek) was getting hammered by Alien Space Bats a LOT more often.  Besides, after the first series all the danger was happening to people FAR AWAY from Earth.  Which is great, if you’re planning to move and everything.

Also, I could be a consultant.  As the first link notes, those people were so starved for culture that disco looked good to them.

Via somebody or other.