Flash Gordon Animated Film | Taika Waititi

[TheVileOne]

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Exactly.

 

[HammerDown]

Also it's animated so there should be plenty of room for something fresh and new.

 

[2kt09]

How do you make it work so it's profitable?

animated movie, huh?...
service the lowest common denominator
Does this have cute vaguely similar looking creature things? it does now
Puns a plenty.
Licensed pop songs.
Welp, he's 12 years old now with a dream to be better than everyone else around gives him credit for.

your welcome.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Am I the only one who's disappointed to see Julius Avery go?? I mean I didn't exactly love Overlord but I was still excited to see what Avery was gonna do with the source material here. A shame that he is out of the project.

I guess he'll work on something new with Warner Bros. nao that Bad Robot is with WarnerMedia (Avery is a Bad Robot prodigy).

 

[Abudefduf]

They had me at Taika Waititi.

To be honest everything I know about Flash Gordon comes from the 1980 movie, which I didn't like and have pretty much forgotten. Does he any other villain besides the racist stereotype?

EDIT: Did some googling and no, he does not appear to have other villains. Who exactly is he gonna fight in this movie

 

[Heretic]

Flash Gordon is my favorite movie of all time.

While I would prefer a live action film...and Taika is the guy to do it...I am stoked for this!

 

[The Big G]

Disney just had Taika do their Flash Gordon movie for them.

Taika Waititi To “Crack” ‘Flash Gordon’ As Fox/Disney Animated Film

Fox/Disney has attached Thor: Ragnarokdirector Taika Waititi to “crack” Flash Gordon, as an animated feature film.

XD

Taika will save everyone one of us!

 

[Silvermoth]

Nice. I hope they keep in that line “flash I love u but we’ve only got x amount of time to save the world”

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

What about the vexed question....will there be a bore worm torture scene involving an half naked princess ?

 

[DarkKnight88]

At this point I guess everything everyone knows about Flash Gordon is from the 80s movie. I hope they pull more from the original comic strips but in the serial vibe of the 30s.

 

[chamber-music]

They had me at Taika Waititi.

To be honest everything I know about Flash Gordon comes from the 1980 movie, which I didn't like and have pretty much forgotten. Does he any other villain besides the racist stereotype?

EDIT: Did some googling and no, he does not appear to have other villains. Who exactly is he gonna fight in this movie

Flash Gordon has other villains than Ming. Flash Gordon had a comic strip running from 1934 until 2003 so he has had plenty of foes.

Azura, the Witch Queen
Brukka, chieftain of the giants of Frigia
The fascist Red Sword organisation on Earth
Brazor, the tyrannical usurper of Tropica
Kang the Cruel, Ming's callous son
Polon, who had the power to shrink or enlarge living creatures
Queen Rubia
Pyron the Comet Master
The Skorpi, a race of alien shape shifters who desired to conquer the galaxy

Ming was modeled on Fu Manchu 'yellow peril' racism back in the past but even in the the late nineteen thirties people were realizing that depiction was problematic which is why in the 1938 Universal pictures Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars serial they based Ming's depiction more like the Devil . mid 90s Flash Gordon carton series and the mid 80s Defenders Of The Earth cartoon both had a green skinned reptilian like Alien looking Ming.


Ben Acker, Ben Blacker and Jeff Parker did a Flash Gordon reboot comic run for Dynamite comics starting in 2014 that would be a solid modern inspiration for the character being adapted for a new movie.

In the dynamite comics Flash is a adrenaline junkie daredevil trust fund baby instead of being ex Polo player or NFL football star or NBA player like he has been in previous depictions.

Dan Jurgens late 80s Flack Gordon comics from DC were also pretty solid.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Will be interesting to see how this turns out. Ive always been a fan of the 1979 animated film.

 

[Abudefduf]

Flash Gordon has other villains than Ming. Flash Gordon had a comic strip running from 1934 until 2003 so he has had plenty of foes.

Azura, the Witch Queen
Brukka, chieftain of the giants of Frigia
The fascist Red Sword organisation on Earth
Brazor, the tyrannical usurper of Tropica
Kang the Cruel, Ming's callous son
Polon, who had the power to shrink or enlarge living creatures
Queen Rubia
Pyron the Comet Master
The Skorpi, a race of alien shape shifters who desired to conquer the galaxy

Ming was modeled on Fu Manchu 'yellow peril' racism back in the past but even in the the late nineteen thirties people were realizing that depiction was problematic which is why in the 1938 Universal pictures Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars serial they based Ming's depiction more like the Devil . mid 90s Flash Gordon carton series and the mid 80s Defenders Of The Earth cartoon both had a green skinned reptilian like Alien looking Ming.


Ben Acker, Ben Blacker and Jeff Parker did a Flash Gordon reboot comic run for Dynamite comics starting in 2014 that would be a solid modern inspiration for the character being adapted for a new movie.

In the dynamite comics Flash is a adrenaline junkie daredevil trust fund baby instead of being ex Polo player or NFL football star or NBA player like he has been in previous depictions.

Dan Jurgens late 80s Flack Gordon comics from DC were also pretty solid.

Thanks! You've been more helpful than Google, that's for sure.

 

[DarkKnight88]

So this is dead.

I guess with Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy, and to some extent Thor, Disney has no use for this.

Even animated.

Although, I would love to see a Disney Animated Feature despite sci-fi/animation being death at the box office.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[DarkKnight88]

Wooooo!

That said, even if they change his race, I still hope he stays blonde lol

And Taika as Ming!

 

[samsnee]

Ragnarok was basically Flash Gordon lite.

 

[Dark Raven]

Maybe he can get Chris Hemsworth as Flash Gordon.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Might as well just use his entire Thor cast.

Hemsworth as Flash
Taika as Ming
Tessa Thompson as Princess Aura
Natalie Portman as Dale
Tom Hiddleston as Prince Barin
Mark Ruffalo as Prince Vulcan
Jeff Goldblum as Hans Zarkov

It writes itself.

 

[Silvermoth]

Taika would be a fun zarkov actually. Karl urban I reckon could be a great Ming

 

[TheVileOne]

Am I the only one who's disappointed to see Julius Avery go?? I mean I didn't exactly love Overlord but I was still excited to see what Avery was gonna do with the source material here. A shame that he is out of the project.

I guess he'll work on something new with Warner Bros. nao that Bad Robot is with WarnerMedia (Avery is a Bad Robot prodigy).

Not really. There's no guarantee the Taika Waititi version gets off the ground.

 

[chamber-music]

Maybe he can get Chris Hemsworth as Flash Gordon.

Chris Hemsworth as Flash Gordon would be pretty good casting.

 

[HammerDown]

Interesting that they would change it to live-action. Wonder when they could be filming this and who would they cast for the roles.

 

[TheVileOne]

Interesting that they would change it to live-action. Wonder when they could be filming this and who would they cast for the roles.

It's only in development. It could be years from now.

Let's also keep in mind that Taika Waititi is probably one of the most in-demand filmmakers in town right now. After Blood & Thunder, he's already attached to Star Wars and probably plenty of other projects.

 

[TheVileOne]

Flash Gordon has other villains than Ming. Flash Gordon had a comic strip running from 1934 until 2003 so he has had plenty of foes.

Azura, the Witch Queen
Brukka, chieftain of the giants of Frigia
The fascist Red Sword organisation on Earth
Brazor, the tyrannical usurper of Tropica
Kang the Cruel, Ming's callous son
Polon, who had the power to shrink or enlarge living creatures
Queen Rubia
Pyron the Comet Master
The Skorpi, a race of alien shape shifters who desired to conquer the galaxy

Ming was modeled on Fu Manchu 'yellow peril' racism back in the past but even in the the late nineteen thirties people were realizing that depiction was problematic which is why in the 1938 Universal pictures Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars serial they based Ming's depiction more like the Devil . mid 90s Flash Gordon carton series and the mid 80s Defenders Of The Earth cartoon both had a green skinned reptilian like Alien looking Ming.


Ben Acker, Ben Blacker and Jeff Parker did a Flash Gordon reboot comic run for Dynamite comics starting in 2014 that would be a solid modern inspiration for the character being adapted for a new movie.

In the dynamite comics Flash is a adrenaline junkie daredevil trust fund baby instead of being ex Polo player or NFL football star or NBA player like he has been in previous depictions.

Dan Jurgens late 80s Flack Gordon comics from DC were also pretty solid.

Yeah he still looks like a Yellow Peril villain in Defenders of the Earth.