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Who Is Chris Showerman,
And Why Is He Going
To Save Every One Of Us?!
Yeah, I would imagine a lot of you picked up the clue in that headline. Evidently, Chris Showerman is going to be Sci-Fi Channel’s new FLASH GORDON.
Here’s the original story!
I just hope they make this fun and don’t feel the need to turn the angst up too high. FLASH GORDON was never overly serious, and trying to chase the same sort of mood as, say, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA seems to me to be a huge miscalculation.
Flash. Ahhhh-ahhhhh. He is the savior of the universe. Please enjoy it, Sci-Fi. Please?
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
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...before annihilation.
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Is Lucas directing?
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earth... ....how peaceful it looks
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... maybe even allowing people to put their hand into his magic 'log' and touch his viscious 'animal'.
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... from the film must be spoken by Brian Blessed. The line must be a reference to winged-men, and it must be a relatively short piece of dialogue... say one or two words. Try again... anyone...
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I agree with Head in a Box, the new Doctor Who is a good place to look for inspiration in how to reinvent and keep something light and campy without it being a joke (except for Love & Monsters). If they don't use the Queen music, I hope they get some modern bands to do some really weird and fun music for the show. If this goes dark, it will miss the point, and I doubt I'll watch.
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That's all I have to say.
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ANYONE could make a show whose main villain in named "Ming the Merciless" anything but campy.
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Same as the Queen does, Thatcher used to do it as well...
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"chris showerman is UP FOR the role." not he's gotten it.
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Ha! Great casting. His reaction when Julie slapped Haley always cracked me up.
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I got a million of 'em.
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That's enough for now.
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I can't think of a single actor who could take this part and not make Ming any better than Max Von Sydow did. He just owned that role. .
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[Brian Blessed]Hawkmen! Diiiiiive![/Brian Blessed]<p>Just a man, with a man's courage. No he's nothing but a man, but he can never fail. No-one but the pure of heart will find the golden grail, oh-oh, oh-oh.
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Seph, it seems I won your contest without even knowing it existed, posting before I read your post as I did. Writing it down doesn't do it justice though; you should hear my impression of the Blessed Bellow(TM).<p>HeadInABox, as has been pointed out, Ming was following the hallowed (and odd) tradition of royalty to refer to themselves in the third person and plural.
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I LOVE YOU!! BUT WE ONLY HAVE 13 HOURS TO SAVE THE EARTH!........... The fact that there will be no Topol overacting and a soundtrack which wont feature Queen, is reason enough to give this a miss... Hmm... there should be more Soundtracks by Queen, like Flash Gordon and Highlander.. as opposed to Soundtracks by Queens....... Like Saturday night Fever.... THATS RIGHT!! BARRY F--EN GIBB IS A QUEEN!!! AND EISENHOWER WAS A SISSY TOO!! *prepares for some good old fashioned 'fisty cuffs'*....... (is it just me or does 'fisty cuffs sound 'naughty'?)... I hear that Fisty cuffs was Barry Gibbs nickname in high school... THATS RIGHT!! BARRY GIBB I"M CALLING YOU OUT!! I'M RIGHT HERE!!!.... YOU QUEEN!!..
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The source material was fairly serious in tone. As were the original movie serials.(we laugh at them now because of the cheezy special effects.) Its only since the movie that we have come to think of Flash as a "light hearted" thing. Much like Batman was seen as a camp figure prior to the Burton film, Flash is suffering from the same stigma. Dont get me wrong - the 1980 movie was amazing! But a weekly TV show in that tone is a disaster in the making. It shouldnt be "galactica" by any means - but it shouldn't be "Dr Who" either. Give it more of a sci-fi "indiana jones" type feel. Action adventure and a little fun here and there. anyway - just my .02
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As long as it keeps the upbeat and silly tone of the movie, like say the BUCK ROGERS series, I'm in. If this has Ornella Muti or Pamela Hensley in it in skimpy space bunny outfits, even better. GORDON'S ALIVE!!!
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Actually I changed my fickle little mind. A FLASH GORDON along the lines of an INDIANA JONES serial (not YOUNG INDY, that was well boring) could be excellent! A little more real possibilities of failure, some action, a few zinging one-liners (you gotta let that go! Please?) and some real nasties in it, too. Klytus MUST be an out-and-out sadist! Oh, and Timothy Dalton gotta eat - give the man a cameo! With a pencil moustache to twirl evilly!
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With BSG completing its FTL shark jump and DOCTOR WHO on hiatus until Series 3, there's not much else apart from THE DRESDEN FILES to care about on Skiffi. Bring it on!
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Its starting up at the end of the month. Is scifi going to make me torrent again?
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I love the film, but I am also a looong time fan of the early comics. Those were like Prince Valiant melodrama. So, I'm for not playing it super-straight like "Galactica" or even ST:TNG...and no high camp like the movie or Batman 1960s...maybe a little ST:TOS with some better effects and slight knowing winks to the audience a la "Indiana Jones."
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It should keep the movie's continuity (just updated)
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Unless they are making Flesh Gordon,which of course I would watch. Seriously though, it doesn't have to even try and be dark in tone,just not overtly campy which is where Doctor Who is heading. I've often wondered when or if SCIFI would make anymore the "Deathlands" series. I was up late one night this past week and caught the one they did in like 03 it was called "Deathlands Homeward Bound" and I thought it was kind of cool. I picked up one of the books one time and read a little and was suprised that it wasn't your typical paperback scifi junk. I just figured with the fanbase the series had it might have produced another film by now. I'd sign a petittion.
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Freddie sang almost the entire thing... just the bridge "No one but the pure in heart can find the Golden Graaaail..." part was Brian.<p>By the way, Brian May is the greatest rock guitarist EVER, and Queen is the greatest rock band EVER.<p>So say we all.
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I'll believe it when I see it, though, and wouldn't expect anything sooner than early July, after Series 3 finishes its first-run in the U.K. Say, new FLASH GORDON in July...DOCTOR WHO Series 3 in July...Seems like a decent pairing to me.
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...or at the very least, the most underrated rock guitarist ever and Queen is certainly in the top 10 rock bands of all time. But if this show is going in the new BSG direction, you can bet money neither May nor the kind of sad excuse for a band Queen has become without Mercury will be involved.
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Camp? No thank you
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That fucking name ruins everything it gets attached to. Dino, Giada, all of them. Goddamn prosciutto-eating bastards.
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You know, that goofy movie where Ron Pearlman was a Ming clone and...I think Nichelle Nichols and the kid from Everwood were in it too...and it was goofy and silly and totally in the same vein of camp as the Hercules series (I think it was the same production stuido too). That's not what Flash should be. Some humor, great. But don't make it as campy as the movie, and PLEASE don't use the Queen theme song (though please don't make me regret that with a theme that's lame in it's place). I agree that the movie has done to Flash was the 60s Batman did to the Dark Knight. But there's been no Frank Mille to repair the damage either, and admittedly the grim ultra-grittiness of Battlestar Galactica would be a bit unwelcome on another show. At best it would be a copy cat with none of its own identity, at worst it would be an overload of "angst" that would start to feel canned. They'd be better to try for a Firefly/Farscape kind of flavor. In fact, isn't Stargate's ending going to free up Ben Browder? There's your Flash. I don't know about George 2. America doesn't have a lot of luck with successors named George.
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what would you all suggest instead????
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"Do you want to live forever?"
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By who? The guy's great, I've never heard anyone slight him...and that would be totally badass if what's left of Queen score the series...or Avril Lavigne, she's soooo alternative and punk! w00t w00t! What?
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March 6, 2007, 1:19 a.m. CST
Not since MARK PILLOW has there been such talent!!!!!!
by Bob Cryptonight
Ick.
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Read the original article - he's just in the running for it. That is some pretty fucking bull-shit reporting guys.
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Truely a great guitarist, but what he's doing to the legacy of Queen is an absolute disgrace. Let it go and show some respect for the late, great Freddie Mercury!
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...Quarterback. New York Jets." line in a campy sci-fi movie, ever. I hope he's still the Jets' quarterback. And I hope he can toss the longball better than Pennington.
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Sorry to let you down there bud, but they made him a triathelete. I was bummed too, until I read the original strips - in which he is a polo player! So, could be worse...
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Errr, or maybe PLAY GUITAR. Whatever. Anyway, the band needs to continually promote their product in any manner required to market the back catalog, Freddy or no Freddy.
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