Merrick here...

Evidently undaunted by the poor reception that met the Sci Fi Channel's recent reinvention of the the concept, Sony is slowly forging ahead with plans to bring FLASH GORDON back to the big screen.

Writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless have been brought in to sript the project, which is still in the hands of Breck Eisner (SAHARA, THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON remake). I'm deliriously tired & when I first read the name 'Matt Sazama', I read it as 'Matt Shazam' and thought it was just about the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

"Flash Gordon" centers on the titular 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.

...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.

SAHARA seems to be a love/hate kind of thing for most people (although I somehow managed to neither love it or hate it) & Eisner & Co. may do a completely fine job adapting FLASH for all I know.

But...no matter how well this comes together...they'll never manage to bump the garishly bombastic Dino De Laurentiis version from its very special place in my heart.

Check out this Zapp Brannigan opening narration from the animated series of the late 70s...