Sci-fi show Buck Rogers is the latest '70/'80s TV series to be given a big-screen remake.
Sources at IGN.com claim that Nu Image/Millennium Films - which recently resurrected the Rambo franchise - is bringing the character back for a new generation of fans.
Comic book writer/director Frank Miller is the surprise choice to helm the movie. Miller, who co-directed Sin City with Robert Rodriguez and helms the forthcoming The Spirit, is in talks to oversee the revamp.
Buck Rogers started off as a film in 1979 to cash in on the success of Star Wars before becoming a TV series. It starred Gil Gerard as a modern-day test pilot who is awaken from a coma in the 25th century and has to fight off a number of alien creatures.
John Dille, who wrote a Buck Rogers comic strip in the 1990s, will take writing and directing duties.
It is thought the new film will retain the campness of the original.
There is no word as yet on who will play the eponymous hero.