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Yes, get ready to blast into the 25th Century, because 'Buck Rogers' appears to be on the fast track to the big screen. According to Deadline, director Paul W. S. Anderson has signed on to return the action hero to life in a new big budget 3D adventure slated to be written by 'Iron Man' screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. For decades, film fanatics and Hollywood insiders have been claiming that 3D was the technology of the future. Just how far into the future, though, even they couldn't have predicted.

Yes, get ready to blast into the 25th Century, because 'Buck Rogers' appears to be on the fast track to the big screen. According to Deadline, director Paul W. S. Anderson has signed on to return the action hero to life in a new big budget 3D adventure slated to be written by 'Iron Man' screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.

Buck Rogers, of course, has been zooming to Earth's troubled future for nearly a hundred years. Since his debut in 1928, the story of a modern-day military man who awakens from suspended animation to find himself in the 25th Century has been adapted numerous times in everything from film, television and radio to comics, novels and video games.

The version most familiar to modern fans, of course, is probably the popular NBC series starring Gil Gerard and Erin Gray, which ran on the network for two seasons beginning in 1979 and later gained new fans through perpetual reruns.

Whether Gerard or Gray will have any role in the upcoming project is just one of the many aspects of the new project still up in the air. Though Anderson, who is no stranger to science fiction thanks to his work on films such as 'Resident Evil' and 'Death Race,' is locked up, producers at home studio Paradox have yet to actually find financing for the film, which would seem to be a fairly important step in the filmmaking process.

Still, considering the property's track record and its potential as a summer tentpole, chances are investors won't be too difficult to find. And if there's one ting Buck Rogers has proven over the decades, its that he's more than a match for the most evil, morally corrupt dark forces in the universe.

Even Hollywood executives.