“What my clients own are the overall rights to the world of Buckaroo Banzai, and all of the characters, themes and ideas associated with that world.” Keller went on to explain that in ...

Style editor Linda Immediato takes requests— and puts together modern looks based on characters (real and ... "Buckaroo Banzai was, arguably, the movie that marked the moment geeks became ...

The film follows the exploits of the title character, Buckaroo Banzai (played by a pre-“RoboCop” Peter Weller), a noted physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot and rock musician, as he saves the ...

that this Buckaroo Banzai novel is being published at all seems to indicate at least part of the rights to the character were figured out, though his ability to appear on screen remains a mystery.

Unfortunately by then Sherwood Studios had gone bankrupt (thanks in no small part to the grand failure of BUCKAROO BANZAI) and the rights to the characters were lost in a swamp of red tape ...