Scribe Zeb Wells, popular for co-writing Deadpool & Wolverine, has been roped into penning the script for the movie featuring the sci-fi character Buck Rogers. This is a significant development coming five years after Legendary secured the screen rights.

Back in 2020, the news emerged that Legendary struck a deal for a feature film, live-action series, and an anime series centered around Buck Rogers.

Buck Rogers first appeared in the novella Armageddon - 2419 AD, by Philip Francis Nowlan, in the magazine Amazing Stories in 1929. Rogers is shown as a World War I veteran who wakes up in the 25th century, after being trapped in a collapsed coal mine in Pennsylvania, inhaling radioactive gas. Once he wakes up, he is forced to confront the foreign invaders. The plot of the Buck Rogers movie, however, is under wraps.

Wells, who has won Emmy and Annie awards, served as the creator and executive producer of Disney+'s Marvel Zombies. Apart from Deadpool & Wolverine, he has also penned several Marvel comics, including one-shot crossover Deadpool/Batman and The Amazing Spider-Man.

Legendary, following the box-office success of A Minecraft Movie, has a busy 2026 with live-action/animated hybrid Animal Friends, Kitao Sakurai's Street Fighter, Dune: Part Three, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's film starring Tom Cruise.