[C19fan]

I remember when the 1980 Flash came out and it was panned by critics and if I remember right bombed at the box office. But it survived to be a cult classic. The movie had three over the top performances by great actors; Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton and Max Von Sydow.

[Little Pig]

I’d love to see a serious (well, as serious as something like this can get) adaptation of the original comic books a la “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”.

[EricT.]

Ugh. Another comic book movie filled with over-the-top CGI crap. Hollywood has truly run out of ideas.

[BitWielder1]

Why can't Hollywood come up something genuinely new?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Given how Hollywood is so into making villians complicated, the question here is how will they humanize Ming the Merciless? How can they make him “complicated”? Did his mother beat him? Did his father never tell him he was proud of him? Did he never get asked to dance at school dances?

[AnAmericanAbroad]

Max von Sydow was brilliant as Ming, and unless they’re planning on casting Brian Blessed, it just won’t be the same.

[PapaBear3625]

I think that the Buck Rogers story-line would be more adaptable: A man awakes from suspended animation in 2419, to a post-apocalyptic America which has been overrun and conquered (by an alliance of Russians and Mongolians), and joins with a rebel band to fight against the conquerors and regain Americans' freedom.

It would be too patriotic and politically-incorrect for Hollywood, though.

[Oberon]

I wonder who will play Zarkov...

[apillar]

The main problem I see, is the same problem that last years “Lone Ranger” movie had, basically nobody under 40 knows who or what “Flash Gordon” is (in fact I’m 40 and I barely remember Flash Gordon from the 1980 movie and have no memory of the older comics at all)

[Renegade]

I remember FLESH Gordon.

[ArtDodger]

I seem to distantly remember a movie called ‘Flesh Gordon’. Too far back in the misty past to recollect......

[stump56]

The 1980 version of Flash is one of my all time favorites. Wonderful British campy SciFi with great music (Queen fan as well). I believe this movie captured the comic book nature very well. With the current movie trend focusing on realistic CGI, the fantasy is lost and all we get is smashing and crashing. Instead, we need more impossible rides with Hawkmen.

[onedoug]

“After dinner I’ll tell you all I know about this Tarzan Flash Gordon person.” —Our Gang

[Timber Rattler]

Brian Blessed is THE man! Why has he not been knighted yet?

Brian Blessed on Have I Got News for You

Henry 8.0

[RossA]

Is Charles Middleton (the original Ming) still alive?

[longtermmemmory]

great now they will ruin flash Gordon the way they ruined new star trek.

[Ghost of SVR4]

Star Trek writers huh? Does that also mean the CGI will have copious amounts of “lens flares”? I won’t see it without lens flare.

[qam1]

Let me guess.

Flash Gordon with be a bumbling middle age Will Farrell type fool

Dr. Zarkov will the stereotypical Black Wise cracker fool

Dale, will be the modern day empowered fighting female. She will have to constantly rescue Flash & Zarkov when their bumbling schemes inevitably fail. Even though Dale is only 90 lbs she can easily take on and beat multiple Ming’s 250lb+ Henchmen all at once

Oh, and Ming will course be Blond hair and blue eyed now

[Tanniker Smith]

I hadn't seen it in years, and put it on one day, and saw Timothy Dalton. Wait, what now? Long time ago.

Also my introduction to Brian Blessed.

It's great because of the campiness of it all, which is reminiscent of its serial roots. And the Queen music doesn't hurt -- it actually adds to the overall atmosphere.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I loved the 1980 movie (still do). A remake by the cretins responsible for Faux Trek will be likely execrable.

[Teacher317]