Back then they were running out of ideas. But I really dug Commando Cody. I wanted that jaket/rocket pack. Here he is flying through the air menacing with his little 38 revolver! LOL:
Posted on 04/24/2014 6:05:11 AM PDT by C19fan
He's a blond interplanetary superhero known for his tight vest and for facing up to the evil Ming the Merciless. And now Flash Gordon is set for a reboot after Twentieth Century Fox announced it has bought the rights to the original comic strip. According to The Hollywood Reporter the team who have just completed writing Star Trek 3, J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, are working on a new script.
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Look backwards to get some new ideas—ever hear of Brick Bradford and the Time Top? Maybe Prince Valent in Camalot? There is also Crash Corrigan and the Undersea Kingdom? My favorite—the best sieral of them all—Dr. Satans Robots! (with The Cobra).
A drastic lack of talent ...
60 years ago movies like this would have been given the lower “B” budget financing and have been only been seen on the bottom of a double feature along with HERCULES AND THE ZOMBIE WOMEN at the local drive in theater.
Today they are given the top “A” budget with tons of high dollar CGI.
We are truly living in a fantasy oriented world.
Are you referring to the 'Mysterious Dr. Satan', featuring 'Copperhead' as the hero of the piece? 'Copperhead' was a last-minute insert, as the opponent of Satan's robot was originally intended to be 'Superman', but plans fell through.
Is Charles Middleton (the original Ming) still alive?
Back then they were running out of ideas. But I really dug Commando Cody. I wanted that jaket/rocket pack. Here he is flying through the air menacing with his little 38 revolver! LOL:
great now they will ruin flash Gordon the way they ruined new star trek.
My God, Flesh! They're dykes!
Where have all the good writers gone?
Star Trek writers huh? Does that also mean the CGI will have copious amounts of “lens flares”? I won’t see it without lens flare.
Let me guess.
Flash Gordon with be a bumbling middle age Will Farrell type fool
Dr. Zarkov will the stereotypical Black Wise cracker fool
Dale, will be the modern day empowered fighting female. She will have to constantly rescue Flash & Zarkov when their bumbling schemes inevitably fail. Even though Dale is only 90 lbs she can easily take on and beat multiple Ming’s 250lb+ Henchmen all at once
Oh, and Ming will course be Blond hair and blue eyed now
Also my introduction to Brian Blessed.
It's great because of the campiness of it all, which is reminiscent of its serial roots. And the Queen music doesn't hurt -- it actually adds to the overall atmosphere.
Hard to believe Craig T. Nelson was in that one!
I seem to remember a Saturday morning TV program, something like Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe.
I loved the 1980 movie (still do). A remake by the cretins responsible for Faux Trek will be likely execrable.
You should’ve seen the abortion of a remake series they did in 2007. They did have Ming as a blonde haired (Canadian):
John Ralston, the actor:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707816/
I watched part of one episode and turned it off.
I remember seeing it at the movies...Melody Anderson...WB.
I only had eyes for Ornella Muti, Princess Aura. She made me feel things in the theater (at the ripe old age of 6) that I should not have been feeling.
Ah yes. I felt “that” when I saw Buck Rogers...remember Princess Ardalla’s ass at the cosmic ball?
I remember they seemed to have the women wearing those late ‘70s “hot pants” on Buck Rogers.
YES!!! OH YES!!!
Now I know why my father, even in his drunken state watched that with me.
Erin Gray - WB with the force of a plutonium-powered locomotive. Princess Ardalla? I’d pass out.
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