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Overlord Director To Helm Flash Gordon Movie



Overlord helmer Julius Avery is moving onto another pulpy genre project, this time in the form of a Flash Gordon reboot for Fox.

Avery pitched his take for a Flash Gordon movie reboot to Fox and the studio liked it enough to hire him for the project. The current plan is for Avery to write and direct the film alone.

Flash Gordon is an adaptation of the pulp comic-strip hero who originated in 1934, with Flash pitted on the planet Mongo fighting its tyrannical ruler, Ming the Merciless. It was most famously adapted for the screen through the Buster Crabbe serials, but Seth MacFarlane’s Ted gave some serious hero worship of the 1980 campy Flash Gordon movie that starred Sam Jones as the character.