Recast Flash Gordon!

[Zaed]

So i was at home today watching tv and the Flash Gordon movie came on, the movie version from the 80s with the Queen soundtrack. The first time i saw this movie was when i was a kid and loved it back then. As i sat watching it again i thought it would be really awesome if they remade the movie with the special effects possibilities of today.

Now i ask, if they were to cast a new Flash Gordon movie who would you pick as the cast?

These were the main characters:

Flash Gordon
Dale Arden
The Emperor Ming
Dr. Hans Zarkov
Princess Aura
Prince Barin
Prince Vultan

 

[Cinemaman]

I also was Flash Gordon fan, but I would like to have remake too.

It would be great. New vissual style and CGI effects, new actors, finnaly new director!

And if they makes it, it will be realesed only in 2009-2010.

But I hope we will get awesome reamke.

 

[Excel]

paul walker as flash.

but id rather see a christian bale as buck rogers movie

 

[The Phantom]

Here's my recasting of it all.

Flash Gordon - Chris Evans

Dale Arden - Elisha Cuthbert

The Emperor Ming - Ken Watanabe

Dr. Hans Zarkov - Jürgen Prochnow

Princess Aura - Angelina Jolie

Prince Barin - Jude Law

Prince Vultan - Brian Cox

 

[The Phantom]

paul walker as flash.

but id rather see a christian bale as buck rogers movie

I think Dennis Quaid would be a better Buck Rogers.

 

[Cinemaman]

Here's my recasting of it all.

Flash Gordon - Chris Evans

Dale Arden - Elisha Cuthbert

The Emperor Ming - Ken Watanabe

Dr. Hans Zarkov - Jürgen Prochnow

Princess Aura - Angelina Jolie

Prince Barin - Jude Law

Prince Vultan - Brian Cox

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Intersting, quite agreed with you.

 

[Backdrifter]

Recast FLash Gordon = Star Wars.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

Source : IMDB

Plot Summary for
Flash Gordon 2007

All-American football player Flash Gordon and the beautiful Dale Arden find themselves unwilling participants in the experiment of the slightly mad scientist Dr. Zarkov. The three of them are transported to the planet Mongo, ruled with an iron fist by the evil Ming the Merciless. Flash, Dale, and Zarkov soon team up with the planet's resistance movement to overthrow Ming and bring peace to Mongo.

 

[Eddie Dean]

James "Flash" Gordon: Matthew McConoughey
Dale Arden: Rachel McAdams
Doctor Hans Zarkov: Gary Oldman or Rade Serbedzija
Emperor Ming "The Merciless": Christopher Lee
Princess Aura: Kate Beckinsale
Prince Barin: Clive Owen
Prince Vultan: John Rhys Davies
Klytus: Jeremy Irons

 

[The Phantom]

Intersting, quite agreed with you.

Thanks man. For once I decided to put some real thought behind my casting choices. I'm a fan of the 80's movie which had a lot of clear, striking characters, my favorite being Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin, so it wasn't hard for me to remember any of them.

Anyone have any ideas as to who would be a good director, and should Queen still do the score?

 

[green]

Thanks man. For once I decided to put some real thought behind my casting choices. I'm a fan of the 80's movie which had a lot of clear, striking characters, my favorite being Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin, so it wasn't hard for me to remember any of them.

Anyone have any ideas as to who would be a good director, and should Queen still do the score?

Unfortunately I believe Stephen Sommers is still attached...
He wanted Ashton Kutcher to star in it for pete's sake.


I agree though Phantom nice casting.
Although I would replace Cuthbert with Keri Russell.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Flash Gordon - Dave Chappelle

Dale Arden -Vivica A. Fox

The Emperor Ming - Eddie Griffin

Dr. Hans Zarkov - Bill Cosby

Princess Aura - Regina Hall

Prince Barin - Damon Wayans

Prince Vultan - Cedric the Entertainer

 

[Cinemaman]

It would be great...

The Director: Kerry Conran
Screenwritters: Kerry Conran, David Hayter, Fran Walsh.
Cast: Chris Evans, Ken Watanabe, Rachel McAdams, Ian Somerhalder, Charisma Carpenter.
Operator: Bill Pope.
Composer: John Ottman.
Producers: Kerry Conran, Carolynne Cunningham, Bernard Williams.
Distributor: Universal
Studios: WingNut Films, Blue Flower Productions, ILM, Stan Winston Studio, The Orphanage, Rising Sun Picture, Furious FX, Illusion Arts Inc., Rhytm and Hues, W.M. Creations.
Runtime: 129 minutes.
Raiting: PG-13.
Budget: $150m.
Opening Weekend: $63m.
Domestic: $239m.
Foreign: $276m.
Worldwide: $515m.

 

[Sundancer]

They're keeping him as a football player? Weird, since he was an astronaut in the comics.

I really don't care, I'll see it with who ever. Paul Walker sounds like a great choice.

Hell, I'd even see it with James Van der Beek.


Max Von Sydow was dead awesome as Ming.

 

[mastermindjcg]

I don't suppose any of you folks gave thought to Alan Rickman as Zarkov, by any chance or better yet, Ron Perlman as either Ming or Klytus.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Alan Rickman would be better as Klytus.

 

[Dr. Fate]

Anyone but Ashton Kutcher as Flash.