Originally published April 18, 2014. Updated April 15, 2018.
Gordon’s alive! It looks like pulp sci-fi hero Flash Gordon is heading back to the big screen, with Film Divider reporting that Star Trek 3 screenwriters J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay are working on a reboot of Alex Raymond’s classic character.
According to the site, the duo’s pitch “goes right back to the original Raymond comic strips and sidesteps any association with the [1980] movie, and even the serials. The idea, I’m told, is to reclaim Flash Gordon from his current reputation in the way that Tim Burton redirected the public conception of Batman.”
There have been numerous adaptation of Flash Gordon on the screen, dating back to the 1930s, although the character is best known for the 1980 movie starring Sam J. Jones as Flash and Max von Sydow as his arch-enemy Ming the Merciless. He was last seen back in 2007-2008, with Eric Johnson (Smallville) playing the character in a short-lived live-action TV series on Sci Fi.
