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Sommers in charge of FLASH GORDON!
Hey folks, Harry here... as has long been rumored, Stephen Sommers has officially come on board with his producing partner to produce a new adaptation based upon Alex Raymond's classic sci-fi fantasy comic strip, FLASH GORDON.
Flash has been a staple of sci-fi filmmaking since the Thirties. Those wondrous Buster Crabbe serials were bristling with imagination and set design and spectacle. They communicated the gosh gee whiz wow of Alex Raymond's amazing strips, but lacked the variety of creatures and the inhuman races that Alex's astonishing lines conveyed in print everywhere.
The Flash Gordon rayguns and spaceships and memoribilia have been a part of pop culture since the 30s. With celluloid toys, tin toys, metal toys, smoke ring producing rayguns, pop guns, clothesline spaceships through to the days of Captain Action and Mego Dolls. Then there was the Filmation Animated series... and finally... QUEEN's FLASH GORDON. I say that, because Queen is the single greatest thing about that version of the film. Oh sure, Ornella Muti screaming out in anguish, "NOT THE BORE WORMS," may very well be the greatest moment in cinematic history, but Sam Jones' fucking football fight with Ming's guards, and those styrofoam wings absolutely drive me crazy. THOUGH... that being said, Max Von Sydow was pretty great as Ming... Though he couldn't shine the head of Charles Middleton's Ming The Merciless! In fact, pretty much across the board, Crabbe's serial owns the adaptation history of this property. Mainly because of tone. It nailed it.
For one, Buster Crabbe was the perfect actor. He was Shatner before Shatner... the man of action, not nuance. He was good enough to believe moment to moment that the cardboard panels in front of him could make the sparkler tailed ships fly and that he was indeed the hero that would "conquer the universe"!
As for Stephen Sommers and FLASH GORDON... not much is known out of the Variety announcement. It seems that Stephen is simply writing and producing the film for now, and will commit to directing it later on, if he's satisfied with his script. The key questions regarding this project most likely revolve around the concept of tone. Will this be a silly popcorn adventure lacking in emotional resonance in lieu of rocketpack joy on the Moons of Mongo? Or will he truly go after the action sci-fi melodrama of Alex Raymond's brilliant strips. Well... That's what I'm pulling for.
BTW - to clarify - I love the 80's FLASH GORDON - I can quote it all day long... but FLESH GORDON was a more faithful adaptation of the material in terms of production design and tone. Heh. Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, Max Von Sydow and of course Ornella ruled the universe. Sam Jones was ASS though. But Queen's music and the crazy effects rule my world. He's gonna save every one of us....
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Aug 05, 2004 7:05:58 AM CDT
Harry DO NOT even ask if this is going to be serious stuff the g
by jimmyrabbit
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The 1980 Flash Gordon is classic. I don't care what anyone says. Sure, it's cheesy as hell. But who can truly say they are a fan of film without guilty pleasures such as Flash Gordon '80?
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Was Ming feeling up Dale ... wow, such a great film. Sorry, Harry, you lose all geek cred by dissing Flash Gordon.
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Diiiiiiiiiiiiiie :)
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The new soundtrack for this movie just HAS to be done by The Darkness! No one could do this as well as Hawkins and crew. This is crazy they are going to make this, because i was talking to friends recently about how I think its time for a nice remake of this, I already cast Vin Diesel as Flash Gordon, I mean he is an action hero type actor and flash is supposed to be a football player and Vin looks like a football player to me. Catherine Zeta Jones for Mings Daughter, the guy who played Gimlee in LOTR for the head birdman guy, Pierce Brosnan for the guy who was played by Timothy Daulton, Patrick Stewart for Ming
www.thedarknessrock.com
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Aug 05, 2004 7:36:19 AM CDT
I'm surprised anyone will give this nob cheese the money to buy
by mr chuff
How much did Van Helsing make? How much did it COST!?!? And they STILL employ him? Universal seems to be going The Way of Warners.
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Sure Sommers has had access to some footage from Sky Captain and he knows what is to come. Pity Sommers lacks the skills and talents, huh?
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Will Gil Gerard be making a cameo? Oh wait, that was "Buck Rogers in the 24th Century." Why isn't anyone remaking that? I want to see a future with feathered hair and wide polyester lapels!
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I really wanted to type that subject line.
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Indeed it is cheesy, but least it knows it. Gordons alive?
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Van Helsing does?
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"I don't know, but it sure was sensational!"... Greatest. Movie. Of. All. Time. Props to fellow Flash Gordon lovers. Like all quality cheese, it gets better with age. Ahhhh,I remember with fondness how Ornella Muti's Princess Aura made my 13-year-old self all a-tingle in the theater back in 1980. Good times... As for Sommers' involvement, I'm ambivalent. If it's Deep Rising Sommers we're getting, it could be cool. If it's Van Helsing Sommers on the other hand, we're in for trouble. Here's to exotic aliens and space chicks in outrageously skimpy outfits. " I like to PLAAAAY with things awhile...... before annihiLATION!..."
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The real big news this morning: Opie & Anthony have signed with XM satellite radio! It's just been confirmed by Opie via email. The official announcement will be at a press conference at the Hard Rock in NYC at noon today.
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I remember watching the Saturday morning cartoons and was so excited to see the live-action movie in 1980. I even had the poster in my room as a 10 year old. Sure, it's campy and goofy, but it will always be a classic. Max Von Sydow was the ultimate "Ming the Merciless" and that's going to be hard to top. And let's not forget Topol as Dr. Zarkoff...great performance. I still listen to the soundtrack from time to time...Queen was perfect for the movie! If you go back and watch it, note the incredible sets and costuming. Harry, you need to go back and appreciate this movie all over again. I look forward to a new version, as long as it keeps its Pulp roots. If "Skycaptain" does well in theaters, I'd wager we'll see Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in theaters very soon.
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The 80s version of FLASH GORDON is one of my guilty pleasures. It's so bad (the acting, special effects. etc.) that it's actually good. Everybody seemed to be having a good time making it and not taking themselves too seriously. Also the QUEEN soundtrack rocked!
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They have got to get Seann William Scott as Flash and Will Kemp (Velkan in "Van Helsing") as Barin. That would RULE.
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Aug 05, 2004 9:22:43 AM CDT
The real FLASH (aa-ah), the one with Father Merrin, is lovely ca
by salvatoregravano
Though can any film be worse than "Van Helsing"? Yes, of course - and Sommers is going to prove that with his own "Trash Gaudy". Oh, and throw the sequel to Pitof!
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Jack Black as Flash Gordon, Kyle Gass as Ming.
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trust me Harry, with Sommers at the helm this is gonna be a silly popcorn adventure all the way;
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Sommers is the 21st century blueprint of a diretor with nuance. Whatever he does, it turns to GOLD. Fuck Crowe, fuck Payne, fuck Linklater. These arthouse dorks can kiss my stinky little fanboy ass anytime. Sommers wil rule AGAIN.
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...declares that any Flash Gordon movie made after the 1980s classic will be like unto a theoretical sixth flavor of ass... we'll have to specially breeed monkeys to taste test it." Really, Harry... how in the hell could you speak ill of what was the the campiest, coolest most whacked-out S&M sci-fi bondage fantasy since Barbarella? That movie rocked despite the presence of a marginally talented pretty boy in the lead role - not unlike The Matrix but with a much needed sense of humor and a WAY better soundtrack. It was like rock opera in space. Your reprogramming by Klytus must['ve been jacked up to level 10 for you to forget the glorious fun that was this movie. Long live Flash! You've saved your Earth. Have a nice day!
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...of Hotdog had a "making of Flash Gordon" special, which was great reading. Brian Blessed says that to this day, people will shout "Gordon's aliiiiiiiive!" to him on the street when they see him. Apparently the production was quite an event. Seek out the magazine if you can.
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As much as I hate camp, I love the 1980s FLASH GORDON. Sure the football bit is pure cringe fuel (Dale- Go Flash, go!) but there's so much that the film has going for it, chief among which is its production design. How can you not agree that the film looks like Alex Raymond's art come to life? Some of my best college memories are sitting around with some friends drinking and just quoting lines bback and forth in our besy (read- worst) Ming and Prince Vultan impersonations. This movie is in a realm of Mongo all its own.
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Aug 05, 2004 10:27:32 AM CDT
Ming's daughter was tres hot in a WONDERFULLY skanky way.
by fluffyunbound
Mariah Carey WISHES she could ever do skank hot like THAT. After 13th Warrior, Flash Gordon is tops on my underappreciated genre flick list. OK, it's an ever-shifting list, but you know what I mean.
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or at least when I'm trying to hurry out the door, the football fight music starts playing in my head.
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Aug 05, 2004 10:29:47 AM CDT
"Prince Barin! I'm not your enemy, Ming is! Let's all team up an
by village idiot
I'm really surprised to see the outpouring of love for 1980's FLASH GORDON - I thought I was the only one. When I saw it as a kid, I absolutely loved it; in those days, there wasn't so much of a dogmatic quality divide between camp and more serious interpretations. FLASH GORDON may have cranked the camp meter up a few notches on the dial higher than SUPERMAN, but heck, when Flash says the line I quote in my subject heading, I believed it. I think I still do. You know what? Instead of a new FLASH GORDON, how about a deluxe DVD version of the 1980 one. To use the lingo of the time, that would be "radical!"
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Sorry, just had to throw that in.
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Sorry I just wanted to be the first to get that in.
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Sorry I just wanted to be the first to get that in.
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Flash Gordon raped my childhood....Hulk Hogan should play Flash Gordon, "I'm not your enemy, Ming is, brother!"...Bruce Campbell should play Ming the Merciless...Flash Gordon is the sexiest beanpole on the planet...LOTR/Matrix/Smurf movies own all your asses...George Lucas blah blah blah...fuck Greedo shooting first..."All you fanboys need to grow up and get a life..."....this is not news, Harry, this wss posted a week ago on FlashGordonisaclosethomo.com..."youre a dickweed...no you are...".............Dontcha just love these wonderful AICN Talkback cliches?
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...but 13th Warrior love as well. Cool! "See to your friend. He was a brave man."
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I am thrilled to see that there are so many other fans of this movie! The 1980 Flash Gordon was like a dream come true for me. I was a HUGE fan of the comic strip character, artist Alex Raymond (and Austin Briggs), and especially the band Queen (I still maintain that there is a movie to be made about Freddie Mercury's life). The casting and (camp) performances were excellent, the sets and costumes were beautifully designed (leave it to the italians who also produced the best reprint volumes of the original Alex Raymond strips), and the music was (excuse the pun), out of this world! It is truly a shame that a sequel was never mad. HAIL FLASH GORDON - SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE!!
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...There's something vaguely admirable in the way you constantly put your head so willingly on the nerd chopping block, even if it's in a twisted, car wreck, Evel Knievel, holy-shit-that's-gotta-hurt way. By your reasoning, the 1980 Flash Gordon shouldn't have been made either, which - I'm sure you can tell if your bothered reading the other posts here - are fightin' words. Give up the fucking Eeyore routine, will you?
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I liked the pinball machine released to coincide with the '80s movie. When you dropped a quarter in it, the game would laugh at you. When you pressed the start button, a voice like Klytus's would say, "Emperor Ming awaits.." and it had beats like from the soundtrack, with an electrical guitar-sounding spinner if something was lit up.
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Yeah, I know, another fucking fan casting suggestion. But what the hell! Also, Sam Jones surprised the shit out of me in that one episode he did of Stargate SG-1. I was surprised to find him intentionally funny. But I agree, his Flash Gordon wasn't so great. Who the heck would you get anyway? Somebody who's simple but compelling...can we hit Kurt Russel with the Infanto ray?
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GET. SOMMERS. OFF THIS.
He has lost his hey-day ever since he made that poor excuse of a film "VAN HELSING." I'm sorry but Richard Roxsburgh sucked as Dracula. The cleverness of the werewolf morphing and how they moved, thought, killed was cool, but underused, and Frankenstein was probably the best thing about the movie besides the beginning and a few action scenes. Hugh Jackman is good, but he belongs in a BOND movie, or just mainly making sequel after sequel to "X-MEN."
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80s Flash rocked. Not just for the sheer camp value, but the sheer unadulterated quality of the actors involved playing it to the hilt. Where else can you see Topol, Max Von Sydow, Brian Blessed, Tim Dalton in the same, mad as a hatter movie.
And let's face it, the ultimate superb moment, (as a ten yr old)? Brian Blessed, in the football game, taking out the (incredibly camp and mad) bad guys. Sheer filmic genius.
And it still stands up as mad camp brilliant drunken movie-watching.
Oh, and it had Peter Duncan in it, (for all you Blue Peter ppl out there!)
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"Will this be a silly popcorn adventure lacking in emotional resonance in lieu of rocketpack joy on the Moons of Mongo? Or will he truly go after the action sci-fi melodrama of Alex Raymond's brilliant strips." Does Sommers make anything but brainless popcorn shit? You can hope against hope, but I'm thinking A) silly popcorn adventure and B) you'll find a reason to spooge all over it anyway.
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And I love you, too.
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Aug 05, 2004 12:50:03 PM CDT
"Do you, Ming the Merciless, Emperor of the Universe, take this
by village idiot
They were picking scenery out of Von Sydow's teeth for days afterwards. Truly sublime stuff.
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I always thought it was DIE!, as in Kamakazie, but I was never quite sure.
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The man has the negative Midas Touch - and what he touches doesn't turn to gold... Seriously, this is the man who did for the Universal monster movies what Desert Orchid did for roses. He makes obscenely expensive video-game movies that are empty & soulless and few would actually admit to liking. I would love to meet the cretin that greenlighted Sommers doing this movie, when far superior movie-makers have tried and failed to get their hands on the project for the last decade or so...
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Aug 05, 2004 1:56:50 PM CDT
I nominate Paul Walker as the new Flash... bar none. Wayne Pygra
by stonemonkey
Let's get some bad-ass casting going here folks. Eva Mendez would be awesome as Ming's daughter, as would Roselyn Sanchez. Yum!
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Aug 05, 2004 2:00:13 PM CDT
Perhaps Sommers should just adapt the Filmation series into one
by stonemonkey
it was better than the 80's film version and closer to the comics/pulp Flash anyways. Get Rick Baker or Stan Winston involved somehow.
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They should do Dan Dare instead coz lets face it the Mekon fucking rocked
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The Mekon fukin ruled, u cant deny it...cant rmember what vit did but i know this:
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I'm also glad to see all the 80's FLASH GORDON love! That credit sequence still gives me chills. Does that make me a Gordonsexual?
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Aug 05, 2004 2:34:21 PM CDT
Yeah but the real question is...WHO IS REMAKING "FLESH GORDON"?!
by grabthars_hammer
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Aug 05, 2004 2:36:29 PM CDT
If he were to make it campy, it would work with the shitty effet
by grabthars_hammer
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The way the device told Flash and his pals, "Prisoners, bounce before me to the presence of Emperor Ming!" made me think the thing couldn't relate to "walking" and saw them as bouncing instead, which in turn made me think of floating robot head-thing as a movie version of the bouncing Evil Otto happy face from the old Berzerk video game.
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I'd like to see this on the big screen
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....there shit, what a pair of wankers, who gives them these gigs, they're a pair of cunts, Helsing is a car crash of a movie, AvP is gonna bomb, ......LISTEN....WHO GIVES A FUCK....someone in La La Land must think that these guys can turn a movie into a %profit, so they get the job....TTFN
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... he can so do this part.
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I loved the 80s version, but if this isn't cast JUST RIGHT, I don't think it'll work. Aw, what the hell....I'll see it anyway.
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meesa jar jar binks
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modern cinema has not been dumbed down enough for me...we need MORE simplicity in movies. good guys, bad guys, good bay guys, and bad good guys. it's just too much fun.
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you know its true.
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Aug 05, 2004 3:57:13 PM CDT
Check out this poster that was obviously made before the film:
by declan_swartz
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It will suck big-time but I don't care because Universal is sure to issue a special edition DVD of FLASH GORDON 1980 as a tie-in, just as they did with the great Dracula, Frankenstein, etc. collections for the craptacular VAN HELSING.
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And then the universe will finally implode on itself!
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What ever happened to that script that Shusett made FOR Sommers? Oh well...regretfully, I'll have to wait and see if this will be worth my time.
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... are pretty sad. I mean, I love the 80s Flash too, but if quoting lines from it with your buddies is one of your fondest college memories, then I truly pity you. You should have been partying more.
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After The Mummy Returns & Van Helsing it's pretty clear Sommers should be bound & gagged indefinitely. What in the name of Bob are they thinking?!
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Aug 05, 2004 5:21:13 PM CDT
Flash!! Flash I love you, but we only have 13 hours to save the
by maulrat
Hahaha I love that shit.. First movie I ever memorised, I was 4 years old and it was a crappy betamax copy, I even drew a lightning bolt on my red sleeveless.. Mom was so pissed.. ahhhh... Memories. *BAMF*
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Aug 05, 2004 5:43:00 PM CDT
Hail Hail!!!.. your great protruberence....and the penisaurus..a
by doc cock
...phallic spaceships, orgies, sexual innuendo, and an actress called Candy Samples.....this is the original and best...Flesh Gordon (1974)....watch it if you dare, and just keep saying 'it's only a movie.............it's only amovie'
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This was reported on IMDB and on my website over 2 months ago!
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Aug 05, 2004 6:23:19 PM CDT
Will this movie solve the "?" from the end credits of the last m
by jon e cin
Thats all I want to know....I feel like I been waiting for an answer to that for years.
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Dose anyone remember Filmation's "Flash Gordon" cartoon from the late 70's, and early 80's? It was actually pretty faithful to the comic strip, until it was given a second season. That's when it became just another bad Saturday morning crapfest die to the network mentality that "cartoons must always be made for kids".
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I love that film too.
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::sigh:: now if only they can have me looged in all the time
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Believe me, I want to see it BAD, but what if it isn't any good? The trailers are cool, well, not that new "let's not really show the kitsch 30's stuff just explosions ala Emmerich" With that new trailer, sans the ring-shooting gun you can HARDLY tell the movie is the way we all know it is. Meaning: The studio doesn't have faith that normal people (not geeks) will go if there's giant flying robots and the like. So they barely show that stuff - leaving little else, making the trailer even quicker-edited and incomprehensible than normal. If groundlings (I love that term) are tricked into seeing it and then think "WTF is all this wacky shit?" they're gonna be pissed. For each one of us Doc Savage pulp-fiction vacuum-tube powered robot fans out there, there's 10 times as many dumbasses who only like comedies and Shrek. (Ever notice that - non-movie people only like comedies?) It'll get my $7.50, but I predict BOMB. Hope I'm wrong, though, cuz then Doc Savage will happen.
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"look water is leaking from her eyes" "they're called tears, it's a sign of their weakness"
"this chicks really turning me on!" "what" "Nothing, forget I thought that!"
"flying blind on a hawkman rocket cycle"
"Impetuous human, ah well, who wants to live forever, DIVE"
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Anyone got any info on this. I watched it as a kid, but I swear to God, 100% forgotten about it until Harry mentioned it in his article.
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In addition to what everyone else has said about the 1980 Flash kicking all sorts of ass (which it most assuredly does), I have one other thing to add to it's bad-assitude: the logo!
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"Gordon's alive?" Brian Blessed ROCKS. Peter Wyngard as Klytus "Planet Uuuuuuuth!". Ornelia Muti is one boner-inducing broad. FLASH! AAHH-AAAAAHHHHH!
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I absolutely loved the 1980 movie for all it's kiztchy camp, but never realized there were some many other people out there who loved it too. Sommers may actually be a good choice to direct it since the original stories were as totally out of control over the top as Sommers more recent flix have been. I just hope he tries to stay faithful to the original look of the comic strips. Art Deco rocks, baby! I hope they rerelease the 1980 version on DVD sometime. How about a criterion collection version with all the bells and whistles? Oh, favorite lines from the 1980 version (that weren't already taken by others here): "Tell me more about this man, Houdini." and "Does anyone ever trust her twice?"
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They should cast Princess Aura with another Italian actress since it worked so well the first time. Maybe Monica Bellucci? She is certainly sexy enough.
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Harry liked van helsing, and he also liked the shitty village. We are the only people today who enjoy good movies,
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Flash can battle the ligers in this one.
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Aug 06, 2004 1:44:49 AM CDT
"Stephen is simply writing and producing the film for now, and w
by triumph poops!
If he's satisfied with HIS script??? Ok, let me get this straight: you mean there's a chance that he'll put on his writer's cap and cram out (yet again) another script geered solely to be nothing more than a special effects extravaganza that's totally lacking in ALL emotional character development and logical story progression and THEN, switching to his director's cap, he'll read it over and realize it's utter shit and therefore decide to quit the project? In essence choosing NOT to direct because he didn't like the writer -- which was himself??? What the hell kind of twisted decision making is going on here? What, is Somers schizo or something? Either show some enthusiasm for the project top to bottom and do it or DON'T do it. But who the hell thinks Somers' "writing skills" will deliver a 4 star screenplay that WON'T be in need of some major revisions? Most certainly character development. Hey, I think Somers can be an energetic director, I actually LIKED the MUMMY movies and VAN HELSING as pure popcorn summer movies to get out of the heat, but give me a friggin' break -- even as a supporter I'd be among the first to say his screenplays have been the WEAKEST element of his movies to date. So that said, and given the supposed decision-making process here, I guess we can predict now he won't end up directing!
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...yes, you are utterly insane. I predict a brilliant career for you with Warner Bros.
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"I never knew what my father was until he let Klytus put the bore worms on me."
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..."Prepare her for our PLEASURE!!"
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Aug 06, 2004 3:31:17 AM CDT
What a life... being able to write a script and if your not happ
by theginger twit
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Not neccessarily in that order... or for that specific purpose.
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Aug 06, 2004 6:25:34 AM CDT
Actually, there already is a special edition DVD of FLASH (aa-ah
by salvatoregravano
It has an intro, interview and commentary by director M. Hodges, a bunch of trailers, and the Queen CD. Unfortunately, it's also unwatchable, because it has - vomit - unremovable french subtitles and the "replace the text with french translations!" scene modifications. *Probably* unremovable by methods other than ripping and filtering the film - at least they could't be turned off on three different players in which I played it.
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Aug 06, 2004 6:31:28 AM CDT
Speaking of "Beowarrior", any news on the double DVD pack with b
by salvatoregravano
As much as I love the final version, I'd love to see that first cut, too, although Revell's score for it was horrible.
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I just wanted to say that I was the first one to mention Darkness doing the soundtrack! hehe so while screamingpenis is very smart, Im am the genius! hehe anyway here is a poem I wrote /she swings from a tree branch high above her house/her mother came swiftly with a frown on her mouth/she called out a warning that passed through both ears/dead the girl lay there, her mother in tears/
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Aug 06, 2004 8:07:07 AM CDT
You Geeks Get on My Nerves with all your whining and picking eve
by the founder
More importantly does anyone care but a handful of people?? Leave Flash Gordon be Sommors, and get on with The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Aug 06, 2004 9:20:49 AM CDT
Maybe we'll get a new kick-ass Flash Gordon ride for the Univers
by excaliburffolkes
The Revenge of the Mummy ride is awesome. Probably the best merger of special effects and coaster thrills I've ever seen.
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Aug 06, 2004 11:46:46 AM CDT
R.C.'s opinion: Gee let me think, Sommers, Universal, I wonder
by r.c. the "wise"
Watch and see. Anyways, who cares about Flash Gordon any how?
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Flash gordon . . . . , what ????
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. . . Not the new movie but everyone talkin' back about the one from 1980. I could talk about this film for days. Absolutely love every cheesy bit of it! The Soundtrack! "This Ming's a Psycho!" That mayonaisse filled monster that tried to eat Flash in the swamp. The duel on that gyrating, spiky, round platform. "Impetuous BOY!!!"
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That's the absolute LAST person they should have to direct (much less write) a Flash Gordon movie remake. Seriously. Sommers should be the last choice for ANYTHING. The rotten little hack just fucking sucks! Van Helstink was easily one of the worst movies of the year. Fuck Sommers.
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Steven Sommers has NEVER - I repeat - NEVER done a movie that wasn't a hot wet shitstain on a retard's diaper. The Mummy, Mummy Returns, Van Helsing, DEEP RISING - Sommers should be directing PBS kid's shows, not classic scifi like Flash Gordon! Oh god, he's going to destroy it!
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...what's with the no-love for 1980 Flash? Not everything was better in the 1930s. Von Sydow would eat the serial Ming ALIVE. Seriously, if 1980 Flash had come out today, you'd probably be geeking out over it completely. I second the notion that 1980 Flash haters need a swift kick in the nards, possibly even two. "From this day forward, let every breed of Mongo live in peace!"
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What's this about a special edition 13th Warrior DVD set? Please elaborate. "Such a man might be thought wealthy indeed..."
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I cannot . . .I repet cannot believe that the same people who flame SW . . . love Flash Gordon 1980??????????
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Aug 06, 2004 2:01:34 PM CDT
Now that Entertainment Rights has bought the Filmation library,
by declan_swartz
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0150business/0200news/tm_objectid=14092064&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=he-man-and-she-ra-leadassault-on-us-name_page.html Filmation site's Flash page: http://www.geocities.com/sshumsuper7fan78/JimsNAOFG.htm
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...that's a TERRIBLE idea. Owen Wilson is too louche. Flash Gordon needs to be a squeaky-clean square type - not Owen Wilson once again playing Owen Wilson, God bless him.
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Before the TV series came about, Filmation was planning a full length feature film (or possibly a TV movie with a larger-than-your-average Saturday morning program budget) Filmation bought the rights to the original comic strip and were planning to use Alex Raymond's original designs as a guide. They had signed up some old animation vets to do the main character animation (although they had also planned to rotoscope much of the human characters as well, just as they had done with their "Tarzan" series) The script, which was going to be set in the thirties, featured Ming coming to Earth to form an alliance with Hitler, and dinosaurs fighting on the surface of Mongo. If they had been able to pull it off, it could have been the coolest animation feature ever, but I think what happened was that at the time, De Laurentes bought the feature rights out from under them (that, or he bought the Buster Crabbe serial rights), leaving them to scrap most of what they had from their original script and adapt it all into the Saturday morning format. Some of the better animation sequences were salvaged (and reused constantly, in typical Filmation TV style) but it was never more than a pale imitation of its more ambitious beginings. As for the 80's film? Don't get me started. It had to be one of the most schitzo films ever made. it seemed to be made simultaniously by two different directors using two different scripts. One had assembled an all-star cast and was playing it fairly straight, ala 1978's Superman, the other cast Sam T. Jones and made the film resemble the campy "Batman" seriesof the 1960's (the opening sequence with the "Hot Hail" button could have been made with old Batman props. Sam Jones altogether cardboardiness makes Adam West look like Robert DeNiro. What a nutty cheeseball film that was..
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Before the TV series came about, Filmation was planning a full length feature film (or possibly a TV movie with a larger-than-your-average Saturday morning program budget) Filmation bought the rights to the original comic strip and were planning to use Alex Raymond's original designs as a guide. They had signed up some old animation vets to do the main character animation (although they had also planned to rotoscope much of the human characters as well, just as they had done with their "Tarzan" series) The script, which was going to be set in the thirties, featured Ming coming to Earth to form an alliance with Hitler, and dinosaurs fighting on the surface of Mongo. If they had been able to pull it off, it could have been the coolest animation feature ever, but I think what happened was that at the time, De Laurentes bought the feature rights out from under them (that, or he bought the Buster Crabbe serial rights), leaving them to scrap most of what they had from their original script and adapt it all into the Saturday morning format. Some of the better animation sequences were salvaged (and reused constantly, in typical Filmation TV style) but it was never more than a pale imitation of its more ambitious beginings. As for the 80's film? Don't get me started. It had to be one of the most schitzo films ever made. it seemed to be made simultaniously by two different directors using two different scripts. One had assembled an all-star cast and was playing it fairly straight, ala 1978's Superman, the other cast Sam T. Jones and made the film resemble the campy "Batman" seriesof the 1960's (the opening sequence with the "Hot Hail" button could have been made with old Batman props. Sam Jones altogether cardboardiness makes Adam West look like Robert DeNiro. What a nutty cheeseball film that was..
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Caroline Munroe ...
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I was going on 13 when Flash came out. I love it to this day. It was campy, though it really was not intended to be... Rocky Horror was campy being campy. The Filmation series was the best thing on Saturdays on NBC. If the remake is done, I'd like it to be tptally faithful to the feel and look of the strip. I'd even settle for a darker up to date refresh of it if it can be faithful to the strip. But if WILL SMITH is cast as Flash Gordon I am OUTTA here!
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Especially the Zarkov brain-drain sequence. That made a really big impression on me. I felt like I had really lived thru
Dr. Zarkov's life. It was really intense. I really liked Flash's Theme too.
Is it just me, or were movies like this a lot more fun
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Aug 07, 2004 11:46:40 AM CDT
Let me be the first to actually like the idea of Sommers doing F
by theginger twit
Say what you will about Van Helsing (It wasn't great but it wasn't THAT bad) but, for me, 'The Mummy' and 'Deep Rising' are absolute classics right up there with 'Army of Darkness'. I say get Owen Wilson and have him play Owen Wilson - sucked up into space and forced into fighting an integalactic battle against an awesomely bad fucker 'Ming'. Incidently, you guys will absolutely go nuts when you see General Tarkin in Episode 3. My Goodness!!
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Aug 07, 2004 1:16:47 PM CDT
Universal isn't wasting any time getting the word out, they tell
by commando cody
Yesterday I went with a friend to Universal to hang out for the day and catch some sun and we decided to take the tram tour. As we approached the old $6 MILLION DOLLAR MAN spinning tunnel portion of the ride -- which has been resalvaged yet again by being turned into a spinning tunnel from THE MUMMY (funny, I don't remember THAT part of the movie) -- the video monitors in the tram cars kick in for a word from Stephen Somers. You know, the usual multi-media bit for the average tourist. But what was interesting was that in the audio intro to Somers, the voice-over narration said "...And now a word from the maker of Universal's THE MUMMY, VAN HELSING and FLASH GORDON." So even though this Flash Gordon news is JUST hitting the trades, I have to say I was stunned that Universal didn't waste a microsecond getting the audio on the tram ride instantly updated and redone to start pushing this thing as a Somers Production.
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Thanks for showing everybody that a person who believes in supposed "zionist plots" worthy of mention in Der St
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Obviously there's a whole lot of lvoe out there for 80s Flash. So, frankly, (and don't point out that's it's because of the money, because obviously that's why, this is a rhetorical question), why bother re-making it?
Unless, of course, you get out your 80s rolodex, call up topol, brian blessed, richard c. o'brien, peter duncan, max von sydow, ornella muti (not that i would be averse to the monica bellucci suggestion below), peter wyngarde, tim dalton, and maybe even sam jones and get THEM to star in it!
The ultimate re-make; with the same cast. Hey, at least it'd be original (oh, the irony...)
BRING BACK BRIAN BLESSED!
"Keep your foot on the red pedal or the g-forces will kill us all!" -
I love 80's Flash.Let's face it though...half the reason that film is considered a classic is Queen. A great score will always put a "good" film into the stratosphere. Don't get me wrong ,I love the art direction and the costumes...it's brilliant! But Queen owns it from frame one. Blade Runner's timeless music does the same thing. Its a classic alone just visually but that soundtrack is out of this world!
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Just for emphasis.
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He's probably already considered having Brendon Frasier get a dye job for the part I could see John Ryse Davis as Dr. Zarkoff -now who would play Ming? Chris Lee? Ian McKellen? Patrick Stewart?
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