FLASH GORDON Remake To Be Written And Directed By OVERLORD Helmer Julius Avery

FLASH GORDON Remake To Be Written And Directed By OVERLORD Helmer Julius Avery

Last we hard, Matthew Vaughn was in talks to direct 20th Century Fox's Flash Gordon movie, but the studio has now hired Overloard helmer Julius Avery to bring the pulp comic strip hero to the big screen.

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By MarkCassidy - Oct 30, 2018 01:10 PM EST
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By all accounts, Overlord is bloody awesome, and the horror flick's director has now lined up a huge project at 20th Century Fox.

According to Deadline, Julius Avery will write and direct a new take on Flash Gordon; a character he grew up reading about in the original comic strip back in the day. Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class) had been on board to helm the project, but will now produce alongside John Davis.

Flash Gordon started out as a pulp comic-strip hero back in 1934, but most fans will remember the character from the cheesy, but entertaining '80s movie which featured the now iconic Queen soundtrack.

So, with a new director in place, who do guys think would suit the roles of Flash, Dale Arden, Hans Zasrkov and Ming the Merciless? Drop us a comment down below.
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smgmayhem
smgmayhem - 10/30/2018, 1:20 PM


IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 10/30/2018, 1:20 PM
Is the Doc Savage movie scrapped?
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 10/30/2018, 1:23 PM
*grabs Thor Ragnarok script*
*replaces every single "Thor" in the script with "Flash Gordon"*

done. give my check now, please.
Baf
Baf - 10/30/2018, 1:26 PM
@Spidey91 - Actually, Ragnarok had a very 80's Flash Gordon vibe.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/30/2018, 1:32 PM
@Spidey91 - Taika said it was a HUGE influence on Ragnarok
GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/30/2018, 1:27 PM
Mathew Vaughn wanted to do this for the longest time.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/30/2018, 1:31 PM
PilotJohnGrant
PilotJohnGrant - 10/30/2018, 1:34 PM
Go crazy, have fun and make this the weirdest friggin' film there is. Please.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 10/30/2018, 1:41 PM
I hope Feige gets around to making a Vance Astro movie so Hollywood can suddenly decide to make a Buck Rogers movie. That's how this works now, right? Feige does a thing and other studios say "wait a minute, that looks like a good version of that property we own and never do anything with!" then they finally get off their asses?

Next up, Ka-Zar/Shanna/X-Men in the Savage Land movie so we can finally get a good Tarzan.
smgmayhem
smgmayhem - 10/30/2018, 1:45 PM
@Spock0Clock - I could see Disney doing a great live action adaptation of their animated Tarzan.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 10/30/2018, 1:56 PM
@smgmayhem - But everyone always does basically an adaptation of the first Tarzan book. "There's a dude in the forest who is actually English".

But there were twenty four Tarzan books. I think maybe the recent Skarsgaard movie explored a bit of the post-Tarzan and the Apes story, but some of those later books were [frick]ing weird man.

Tarzan fighting dinosaurs and Lilliputians in the Hollow Core of the Earth kind of weird.

I prefer the Barsoom stuff, but since Taylor Kitsch ruined that for everyone, at least we could get some crazy Victorian Science-Fantasy from a good Tarzan series.
MUTO123
MUTO123 - 10/30/2018, 1:55 PM
I’m seeing Overlord next Monday. I’ll let you guys know how it is.
fundamentallyOT
fundamentallyOT - 10/30/2018, 2:04 PM
Chris Evans as Flash and Margot Robbie as Dale Arden. Ben Kingsley as Ming without the infatuation for Dale of course. His motives focused only to conquer.
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