Transformers producer doing Buck Rogers movie!

Don Murphy (“Transformers”) is one of the producers behind a newly-announced bigscreen version of science-fiction classic “Buck Rogers”, says Deadline.

Murphy’s Angryfilms are set to bring “Armageddon 2419 A.D”., the “Buck Rogers” origin tale that was written in 1928 and originally appeared in ‘Amazing Stories’ magazine, to the big screen.

Philip Francis Nowlan’s originals story sees “Rogers, who — while investigating a mysterious gas leak and then getting trapped — is held in suspended animation, where he survives for just short of 500 years. He awakens on an Earth that is caught in a futuristic civil war, with the remnants of the United States battling both futuristic Soviets and Mongolians.”

Flint Dille and Ed Neumeier (“RoboCop”) will write the movie.