It looks like that forgotten reboot project Flash Gordon has picked up steam again. Seems this week is all about those movies they forgot to follow up on getting news. Well two people you have never heard of managed to get Sony to sign them on to write the script, and Hearst no longer has the rights so Sony is running with it!
“Flash Gordon” centers on a young polo player who is kidnapped and taken to the distant planet Mongo, where he and companions Dale Arden and Hans Zarkov embark on a series of adventures fighting a ruler named Ming the Merciless.
Sony’s “Flash,” a live-action film, follows in a 75-year tradition across many media for what began life as Alex Raymond’s comic strip; the property was a movie serial in the 1930s, a Sam Jones-toplined feature in 1980 and a recent Sci Fi Channel series.
Out of a lot of the pulp sci-fi out there I have never been a fan of Flash Gordon. I hope what happens here is much like Battlestar Galactica reboot, where they ditch all the camp and cheese and give us a solid enjoyable flick.
My big concern is the two writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. I had never heard of them, so Google to the rescue! Nothing outside a mention that the same team will bring us Dracula Year Zero. Which I find very little about short of a director announcement.
I am all for the little guy getting a foot in the door. And honestly Flash Gordon might be a sleeper hit, but unless they work some serious magic I am not getting too excited about it.
