Week in geek: The Kick-Ass and Kingsman director is rumoured to be re-vamping the classic 80s cheesefest. But can you replace Brian Blessed, Queen and Razzie-nommed Sam J Jones and still save every one of us?
Gordon’s Alive! And he’s coming back to the big screen in a new effort from Matthew Vaughn, the British director of Kick Ass, Stardust and Kingsman: The Secret Service.
The news that Vaughn is in talks to direct a new take on Flash Gordon, the 1930s comic book hero who famously inspired Mike Hodges’ preposterously camp 1980 film, has been rather overshadowed by this week’s revelations about the forthcoming Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel movies. But with Kingsman likely to end up one of 2015’s biggest box office hits, maybe we should be taking the idea of blasting off once again for planet Mongo a little more seriously.
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