'Flash Gordon' film goes to 'Overlord' director | Inquirer Entertainment

‘Flash Gordon’ film goes to ‘Overlord’ director

/ 08:00 PM November 01, 2018

Australian director Julius Avery of early November World War II horror “Overlord” has been announced as the director of a “Flash Gordon” reboot.

The picture was previously in the hands of “Kingsman” director Matthew Vaughn, who stays on as a producer.

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20th Century Fox picked up “Overlord” and has likewise given “Flash Gordon” the go-ahead. According to Deadline, when Avery pitched his take on the project, the studio “sparked to it.”

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The news coincides not just with the final week of publicity before “Overlord” debuts, but with the launch of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” a look at the stratospheric career arc of British rock band Queen and its charismatic frontman Freddie Mercury.

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The band famously soundtracked a 1980 movie adaptation of the “Flash Gordon” comic book hero, an adaptation that was referenced in both “Ted 2” (2015) and “Thor: Ragnarok” (2017).

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But Avery may have chosen to stick closer to the dashing, daring space superhero’s roots.

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Flash Gordon first appeared in a 1934 comic strip of the same name. In the earlier iterations, Gordon must battle Ming the Merciless, a bloodthirsty tyrant from an alien planet, and his invading armies, all without any superpowers. JB

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