News Buck Rogers Deadpool & Wolverine Writer Zeb Wells to Pen New Buck Rogers Movie for Legendary Legendary has been trying to reboot the franchise since 2020. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 29, 2025 Credit: Universal Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Universal Pictures Legendary has signed up Zeb Wells (Deadpool & Wolverine, SuperMansion, Robot Chicken) to write the script for a Buck Rogers movie. TheWrap first reported the news, and that the film will be based on the novella by Philip Francis Nowlan, which was published in the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories. That story is titled Armageddon 2419 A.D., and centers on World War I veteran Buck Rogers, who is frozen in suspended animation (because chemicals, just go with it) and wakes up in 2419, where the world is a very different place. (You can read the whole thing here, starting on page 40, if you like!) After that novella, Buck Rogers became an iconic sci-fi adventure hero in a weekly comic strip that started in January 1929 and ran until 1967. The character has also appeared in a 1932 radio adaptation, a 1939 serial film, a 1950 television series, a two-season television series and a film in 1979, multiple books, and more. This isn’t the first recent effort of Legendary’s to make something based on Buck Rogers. Back in 2020, the studio tapped Saga, Y the Last Man, and Paper Girls writer Brian K. Vaughan to work on a TV series adaptation based on Armageddon, though that project appears to have fallen by the wayside.   The news is still in its early days, so no information yet on who the director will be, much less on casting. [end-mark] The post <i>Deadpool & Wolverine</i> Writer Zeb Wells to Pen New <i>Buck Rogers</i> Movie for Legendary appeared first on Reactor.