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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I was actually a fan of Gil Gerard’s. I thought it was a shame his career didn’t take off. He had the looks and charisma to be a movie star (none of that pansy-ass, zero charisma seen in too many so-called leading men today). I think Hollyweird doesn’t REALLY want manly men in leading parts, why it seems in the past 25+ years (since the ‘80s), we’ve seen an increasing feminization of the male population.
I never saw Flash Gordon. Will it be pronounced Gor-don?
Buck Rogers, yes. Saw it on the Sci-Fi channel as a kid. I used to think Gil Gerard was Lee Majors.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7oaw7_buck-rogers-tv-intro-saison-1_shortfilms
Princess Ardala and Erin Grey. Did you AB them, Bender?
Loved the Buck Rogers TV series (the second season a little less, though). I’ve seen some vids of Gil recently, he and Erin Gray and Felix Silla are still making the convention rounds.
Wait, do you mean you didn’t see the 1980 film or the horrid Sci-Fi channel PC rapefest of Flash Gordon ?
I remember watching it back in 1979 with the intro saying that Rogers was launched into space in 1987. That seemed so FAR into the future...
Either.
I seem to have a vague memory of Emperor Ming so maybe I did see the film as a little kid on cable but I don’t remember it.
Wow, I’m surprised. It’s been run countless times on tv. Perhaps they have a DVD copy you can borrow from the library. The soundtrack alone (by Queen) is fantastic. The one weak spot in the film is Sam Jones’s Flash. The actor has the right “look”, but he is flat with respect to charisma, and is overwhelmed by the rest of a top-flight European cast (Max von Sydow, Chaim Topol, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed).
Yes to all that you wrote.
Look at a few of the shows from back then with men as the main characters:
Magnum, PI
Matt Houston
Airwolf
Simon & Simon
Dallas
Dynasty
All of those shows had masculine, manly men as the central character; no way would they be made today.
That’s why the garbage remakes Hollyweird makes suck so much: they change the central tenant of success - men being men.
Flash Gordon: Looks cheesy now, 34 years later, but still worth watching. A younger, pre-Bond Timothy Dalton is also in it.
p.s. Princess Ardalla’s ass!!!
p.s.s. Gil Gerard was not Lee Majors. Good observation though Impy.
At 8:00 pm Eastern, “Catch-22” is on the “Movies” channel, followed by “The Sands of Iwo Jima”:
http://moviestvnetwork.com/where-to-watch.php
“Airwolf, EPIC theme music”
It’s so 80s, it makes my irma tingle, like when I watch the last half hour of Rambo 2.
Dude...
Ah ha...you know what I’m talking about.
I wish I didn’t.
Pshaw.
Thanks for refreshing my memory—It was the Coppperhead! I know the female lead—was name Lois. I liked the mad doctor—he chewed the cartpet—He was conflicted—He didn’t want to murder folks—forced too—you know. The Robots were filled with dinamite and would explode and take out a city block if captured! If you get a chance see the feature.
Because audiences have shown them over and over that they prefer the familiar. And when you're marketing something you spent hundreds of millions of dollars to make, it's a lot easier when people have some idea what it is beforehand.
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