Director Breck Eisner is confident that his remake of Flash Gordon movie will be much better than the 1980s version, and hope that the film will start a new franchise:
“Our version of Flash Gordon goes back to strips from ’30s and we will update those and shoot the movie as if the strips were drawn today. It will be an action and adventure sci-fi. In fact, there is nothing in the ’80s version that can be used in this new project if it’s not in the comics.
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It’ll be a franchise for sure. It will be a standalone story, it definitely won’t left open for more, but the ultimate goal is to turn it into a franchise. It will be an origins story for Flash. He’s going to Mongo, he’s gonna save the planet and it will have a superhero buy in and will be unique. It is very much a superhero origins story.”
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It’ll be a franchise for sure. It will be a standalone story, it definitely won’t left open for more, but the ultimate goal is to turn it into a franchise. It will be an origins story for Flash. He’s going to Mongo, he’s gonna save the planet and it will have a superhero buy in and will be unique. It is very much a superhero origins story.”
Director Breck Eisner
Let’s hope the movie will enter into production soon!
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