Must..resist…doing…classic Queen “AAA-AAAAHHHH”. 20th Century Fox has secured the rights to the classic comic-strip character who made his name back in 1934, a mighty 80 years ago. Many serials would follow, starting in 1936 with Buster Crabbe in the lead, and a 1980 film famous for its Queen soundtrack tried, but failed, to cash0in on the popularity of Sci-fi due to STAR WARS. The tale of Flash Gordon sees the titular polo player travel to Mongo and battle the evil ruler, Ming the Merciless.
Writers of the next STAR TREK film, Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, are coming up with a first draft for the proposed reboot, with suggestions that George Nolfi (THE ADJUSTMENT BUREU) may direct as he has stipulated the outline of the film. That’s quite an interesting group to tackle such old material, so let’s hope they update it accordingly.
The 1980 Mike Hodges film, FLASH GORDON, is a personal favourite of mine, although it does take a love of the camp and silly to really appreciate its brilliance. Such a humorous outlook is common for the cult classic, typified in the cameo appearance of Sam Jones in Seth MacFarlane’s TED. The property attempted a failed revive in 2007 with a TV series, but all that proved was that without Brian Blessed nobody’s going to care.
P.S. Dear 20th Century Fox, CAST BRIAN BLESSED.
Source: THR
